Who can benefit

There are few things that are so difficult, embarrassing and demeaning to an intelligent child as
being labeled or classified as learning disabled and intermittently separated from his/her
classmates to get special help for reading and/or math. These children frequently get help for
problems with behavior or hyperactivity. To make matters worse the remedial efforts are seldom
adequately effective. Time allotted to remedial work often interferes with other subject areas.
Children become disillusioned with school, insecure and despondent regarding their own
abilities. Their problems continue.

Too often they are medicated with drugs that permit them to function in the classroom, improve
their behavior and their grades for the time the medicine is effective but when it wears off the
grades and behavior again depreciate and the memory of the method for success is lost.
If grades are the only important factor in your child's life than the medication is successful, but if
education is the goal the residual effects are insufficient. Long term use of these medications has
proven to be potentially harmful to future health.

I have found one major problem that pervades all of the classifications of learning disabilities and
behavioral disorders. All of them demonstrate deficits in sensory perception that cause
inadequate interpretation of tactile, auditory and sensory stimulation. These deficits lead to
incorrect concepts, rapid fatigue, and inability to function adequately in classroom activities.

Some of the deficits are recognized in infantile "developmental delay". Some are obvious in
clumsiness in childhood play. Some children struggle with fine motor activities, with coloring or
writing. The problems seem to vary from child to child. The problems can be seen in physical
ineptness in people of all ages.

Two basic problems are evident
Some of the children have developmental delay or disability. This segment is about the same
percentage-wise as it has been in the past.
The rest of the children are handicapped by the presentation methods that are not matched to the
perception abilities of the students.

Acceleration of the curriculum progression that had worked so well in past years exceeded the
development of background information. Although some children showed early advances, most
failed to relate to the new materials. The new approach was actually inhibiting the learning
process, not only for the moment but for future efforts as well.
It is obvious that when the presentation of information exceeds the development of background
the product is often incorrect.

Treatment Approach
Installation or reinstatement of basic sensor and response factors in the proper order will correct
most of the problems related to learning disabilities, regardless of the label, without medication
or "special classes."

Learning abilities of virtually all of the students can be enhanced by correcting the presentation
methods while the background failures and/or errors are corrected by physical methods and
basic presentation.

Proper basic developmental activities can improve all aspects of perceptual abilities. Corrected
presentation methods can assure perceptual ability for each child in each and all presentations.
As the classroom activities progress, it will be observed that virtually all children in the classroom
learn on first presentation (with the exception of a few distractions).

CCDT offers a non-invasive, non-traumatic approach in addressing and stimulating the Central
Nervous System to find and correct its own dysfunctions.

When the human being experiences a traumatic, anoxic, or toxic injury to the brain, brain stem or
spinal cord, the nervous system may be traumatized throughout.
In this case, it is the trauma that is the real set back. The damaged tissue may recover although
the trauma from the injury remains.

Our programs are designed to help reprogram lost sensory and motor information that is stored
in our DNA, and reintegrate that memory into the traumatized system.
This allows recovery in a natural, passive and non-invasive manner. In this way the body chooses
how the problems will be corrected from the inside. We design a program based on the
developmental level of your function.

Common Treatment Responses
Reduction of seizure activity
Increase awareness of his/her environment
Reduction of repetitive behavior & hyperactivity
Increase in speech & vocabulary
Visual improvements
Improvement in coordination and gait
Better balance
Increase in muscle tone & muscle mass
Improvement in processing

Neurological development follows a precise and predictable sequence, especially in early
prenatal life. It provides a necessary background for all futures development and learning.
These are the factors which are lost or inhibited by physical or chemical trauma to the central
nervous system, most commonly by lack of oxygen during or near the time of birth.

Inappropriate movements and postures are the result of interference with, or loss of, sensory
ability or physical functions which are normally developed during early prenatal life.

All "deformities" reflect neurological developmental imbalance, and therefore should be corrected
by addressing neuro-sensory factors.
Deformities become "orthopedic" through imbalance of neurological stimulus for extended
periods of time.

Most neurological failure and coordination problems can be improved. Most deformities can be
prevented when the deformities are still limited to soft tissue.
Our treatment methods are designed to stimulate the nervous system, to define and correct its
own errors and make the necessary corrections.

Common Treatment Responses
Modification of muscle tone
Decrease in spasticy
Increase in hypotonia (tonicity and strength)
Increased range of motion without stretching, splinting, casting or bracing
Improved coordination

It has become obvious that a significant percentage of nervous system dysfunctions result
from an apparent "deprogramming" of specific portions of the central nervous system
memory. This appears to be due to a reaction to either physical or chemical shock.

"Deprogramming" is very like the reaction when a computer's power plug is inadvertently
disconnected. The machine and its circuits remain intact and undamaged, but the program is
lost. For the program to be reinstated, it must be returned to the proper file from which it was
lost, or it cannot be retrieved or accessed.

It is possible, indeed likely, that a considerable amount of paralysis from polio is the result of
this type of mechanism. It is also likely that continued stress and chronic severe fatigue
produces similar trauma, causing post polio syndrome.
If this is true, there is a possible avenue to reinstate function, at least to the segments that
were functioning before the onset of post polio syndrome.
In addition, there is a possibility of reinstating function in some of the previously involved areas
affected by the initial disease process.

It is obvious that both the anterior horn cells and the muscle cells that return are alive and well
but are shut down by other factors in the nervous system.

The “usual and customary” response to seizure activity is prescription of medication
designed to slow or interfere with the reactions of the nervous system, or, if a chemical
imbalance or allergy is recognized, appropriate medical or chemical responses may be
effective. In our facility, seizure activity is not uncommon, since we work primarily with
central nervous system dysfunction. They range from momentary :absence” periods, to
varieties of physical movements, postures, sounds etc. In most cases they return rapidly to
the pre-seizure state, and treatment procedures continue. We always want to be made
aware of any existing tendency to have seizures, and all know factors which have been
observed or which result from the episode. Almost all seizures seem to have little or no
residual effect, but all are a concern, due to the possibility of injuries, aspirations or
inhibitions of any vital function. Through the years, in the process of treatment we have
observed many different reactions of our clients to seizures.

In most cases, seizure activity is decreased during the treatment period, and may continue
to be decreased. In some cases, as clients are progressing through the normal
developmental processes they may experience an increase of seizures for a brief time,
apparently as the stimulation effects the part of the nervous system being reprogrammed.

The stimulus may produce a random response, then progressively be observed to cause
more correct and coordinated reactions as the nervous system organizes its responses.

Sometimes the seizures progressively disappear, sometimes they return to the original
sequence. We have not experienced continued intensification or frequency of seizure activity as a
reaction to treatment procedures.

The cause of seizures varies and includes:
Failures in prenatal developmental processes
Structural defects in the brain
Scarring of various areas of the brain
Pressure variations in the brain
Aneurysms in the brain
Circulatory variations in various areas of the brain
Allergic reactions
Chemical imbalances
Factors which affect the smooth function and transitions of the operation of the brain.

Traumatic Brain Injury is usually the label for either physical or chemical incidents that may
erase normal function at any age.

Treatment methods follow the same format as that used for other CNS injuries because it
follows the design of the genetic sequence of development.

The treatment consists almost entirely of specific sequences of specific sensory stimulation
and precise sequential movement patterns. All environmental factors are controlled to
eliminate (as much as possible) all extraneous distracting stimulation and enhance subliminal
sensory awareness of sensation and response.

The nervous system reacts to a specific sequence of sensory stimuli that is recognized as a
part of the early development of the genetic code and in doing so it reestablishes the corrected
pattern of function.
In some cases the changes are rapid but the process of rebooting the human computer may
require considerable time, depending on many factors of each individual and each injury.

Typically the recovery of movement, sensation and control will be noticed without instruction,
demonstration or practice.
The nervous system finds its own errors and repairs itself.

CCDT is designed to address the nervous system directly rather than trying to teach the SCI
client to use residual ability through great effort and practice.

Spinal Cord Injury is different from other Central Nervous System injuries primarily because the
cerebral cortex can relate to and communicate with the brain stem. In teaching/practice/goal
oriented rehabilitation it seems to be true that any improvement appeared to progress downward
from the point of injury through the next adjacent nerve root as the cortex addressed the goal
oriented tasks required to "relearn" the movements and substitute new pathways for even the
simplest of functions. Unfortunately, The teaching and practice efforts usually result in the
gradual acquisition of the function of each next lower spinal segment. This seldom seems to
effect more than 2-4 segments below the injury.

Treatment Methods
Treatment methods follow the same format as that used for other CNS injuries because it
follows the design of the genetic sequence of development. The nervous system reacts to a
specific sequence of sensory stimuli that is recognized as a part of the early development of the
genetic code and in doing so it reestablishes the corrected pattern of function.

By addressing the nervous system through a sequence of sensory stimuli a different sequence
of relearning seems to take place. It is then necessary to go back to the point of the
developmental function that is available, apply passive stimulus that relates to that portion of
development and allow the individual to progress at a natural pace. This is truly much faster than
trying to teach around a disability and the result is an automatic, not a relearned response. Our
genetics contain all of the information needed for the recovery of lost function.

But the process of "rebooting the human computer" may require considerable time, depending
on many factors of each individual and each injury. Improvement can be seen in a short amount
of time and can be defined as miraculous but in most CNS cases miracles occur progressively.

Common Treatment Responses
Treatment responses vary from client to client. The following responses have been frequently
seen in our clients with Spinal Cord injuries.

Return of the spinal extensors on both sides of the spinal column
Unilateral control of the spinal muscles to move the trunk from side to side
Adductor muscles of the hips from an abducted position
Beginning of hip flexion and abduction form a position of moderate abduction and outward
rotation of the hip

When these have occurred a sequence of basic movement patterns progresses from prone
mobility to quadruped mobility as a basis for development of muscle strength and endurance.