Snowdrop Child Development Foundation
Developmental difficulties in children, express themselves in many ways. Difficulties may arise in specific areas of development such as language and communication, or in the development of literacy, causing phenomena such as dyslexia and dysgraphia, through to more global problems such as autism or cerebral palsy.\r\n\r\nSnowdrop has been established in an attempt to help children and families overcome these problems and offers a fresh approach to the treatment of brain-injuries which cause cerebral palsy, autism, learning disorders and other developmental difficulties. Children are prescribed individual programmes of neuro-cognitive stimulation designed to help facilitate their development. Programmes are carried out in the child\'s own home by family and friends.\r\n\r\n We have spent many years in academic research in the field of cognitive neuropsychology and child development. We have also worked in schools with children who have special educational needs helping to monitor and supervise programmes of intervention to meet those educational needs. \r\n\r\n The experience of our founder as a parent of a child with brain-injuries, gives a unique perspective into the difficulties, (not to mention the stresses), which families face on a daily basis, whilst our academic research and twenty years experience in dealing with the developmental problems of children gives us access to the tremendous amount of untapped knowledge, from the worlds of cognitive neuropsychology and child development, which can be applied to the treatment of children\'s developmental problems.\r\n\r\nSnowdrop has been created with four aims in mind.\r\n\r\n1. To provide programmes of developmental stimulation for children with cerebral palsy and other developmental problems, which can be implemented by families in their own homes.\r\n\r\n2.To provide families with advice and information concerning the many practical issues, which affect the lives of children with cerebral palsy and other brain-injuries.\r\n\r\n3.To provide families with support and to be \'a friend to talk to\' in times of stress.\r\n\r\n4.To be involved in and to support continuing research, designed to improve the lives of children with brain injuries such as cerebral palsy.