National Association For Child Development (NACD, Robert Doman)

American organisation that designs home programmes for brain-injured and gifted children. Based on neurodevelopmental Gestalt (integrated, whole-person) and neural plasticity principles. Assessments are based either on seeing the child, or on video and telephone information. In the case of cerebral palsy, the assessment would be in how the child is functioning with sensory, language, motor and cognitive skills. The programmes aim to improve abnormal developmental patterns and accelerate normal development and education, in the belief that every child has unlimited potential. Eclectic, drawing on a wide range of techniques.