Everything changes: winter to spring, summer to fall, youth to adolescence, health to illness. We expect, accept and adapt naturally to...

Mental health professionals and schools often depend on a behavioral model to address  emotional and learning issues. Programs such as...

“Are you on ‘the diet’? is a query commonly heard wherever I go. At my weight loss clinic “the diet” is the protein shake that allowed me...

On my answering machine was a message from the mother of Lance, a fifth grader with Asperger’s Syndrome. She was distraught. Sassing the...

Families who join DDR sometimes share that they are confused about the order in which to pursue interventions for their child. They hear...

”I wike you, too!” I bet you are smiling. “A smile is the shortest distance between two people,” says Victor Borge. It takes 17 muscles...

Simple improvements can easily be made for those with allergies, asthma and developmental problems in how they partake of nature’s...

Imagine — a ten year old boy attending his fifth school in six years! His mother consulted me last spring, hopeful that I knew about a...

This spring I returned to Boston for my 30th college reunion. I was disappointed to find that some of my old haunts had vanished, but...

A parent recently asked why I recommended that her child be examined by an optometrist rather than an ophthalmologist. The answer comes...

The DDR advocates a number of alternative therapies. Many parents are willIng to try innovative therapIes, and they also believe they are...

Today I observed Steven, 61/2, in a class of 12 students. identified as “unready” for first and second grade. A lovely teacher directs the...

Once every few years a book comes along that is destined to become an instant classic. The Four Pillars of Healing by Dr. Leo Galland is...

Those  who have struggled though the maze of medical tests and diagnoses know that the differences between pervasive developmental...

Drink your milk so that you will grow up big and strong. How many of us heard those words as young children and still heed them? This...

This generation of children is living in a world more riddled with chemicals, toxins, and unnatural substances than any before. Despite...