Growing Pains; Growing Gains: Why All the Fuss About Development

If you’ve been following along in our blog series, we’ve been talking about NeuroDevelopmental Mentoring, or NDM. Our last post covered the neuroscience of NDM, especially brain states. For this post, I wanted to focus on the D of NDM: Development.  Human development has been around as long as humans. Yeah. There’s a real mic […]

The Neurology of Neuro-Developmental Mentoring: A Bit Like Star Wars.

Debbie explains the role Neurology plays in NDM as “the science of the workings of the brain, brain states, and neurodiversity.” While at first glance this might look like a crash course on understanding the differences between neurodivergent brains and neurotypical brains, NDM is more about understanding the similarities in how both brains develop: “NDM […]

What is Neuro-Developmental Mentoring and Why Does it Matter? 

Neuro-Developmental Mentoring Neurodevelopmental mentoring is a developmental assistance strategy for parents, support professionals, or anyone with a vested interest in the continuing development of neurodivergent children, teens, and young adults. It has been coined and created by Jason and Debbie Grygla. Jason and Debbie Grygla are expert mentors. It’s their passion, and it’s their goal […]