Despite slippery roads and kids home for an unexpected snow day, the course went off without a hitch. Our course instructors were Gail Ritchie and Brenda Lindsay.
NDT stands for Neuro-developmental treamtment. From the website: NDT is a holistic and interdisciplinary clinical practice model informed by current and evolving research that emphasizes individualized therapeutic handling based on movement analysis for habilitation and rehabilitation of individuals with neurological pathophysiology.
Gail Ritchie is an occupational therapist who became an NDTA instructor in 1996. Her career, spanning 25 years, focuses on supporting children and their families. Brenda is skilled in a variety of areas including sensory processing disorder, but her focus is to also increase awareness of development and and facilitation of movement through handling in particular for children with autism.
Brenda Lindsay is a physical therapist who was certified in NDT in 1993 and went on to become an instructor in 2010. Both she and Gail have extensive clinical experience in pediatrics and the autism population. Both saw a need to bring developmental treatment into autism treatment and created the course to educate therapists about its powerful effects on this particular group of kids.
Members of the OT and PT community gathered over a couple snowy and icy days to take in their knowledge and observe treatment. All of us came away with a better understanding and appreciation of NDT-based treatment with the kids we serve. It was a fantastic course.
Advanced Pediatric Therapies 