Our older son didn't speak until he was five.
That's not a statistic from a course we took. It's where this started. We've spent over 20 years in developmental therapies since. Both of us are Melillo Method certified, since 2022, and we've never stopped learning. Auditory listening. Vision therapy. Posturology. Neurofeedback. Kinesiology. Nervous system regulation. Anatomy.
But the real qualification came before any certificate. Our older son was diagnosed at the lowest percentile for his age in the UK. Today he is fully verbal, has finished his GCSEs, has friends and is independent. Our younger son developed social anxiety that got worse during the pandemic years, to the point where he stopped speaking above a whisper, even to us, even at home. Through breathing exercises, mindfulness and a huge amount of patience, his voice came back. So did his confidence.
We have dealt with PANDAS, with rage that turned physical, with frustration and anxiety that had nowhere to go and came out sideways. Some years our house was chaos. We chose a different route for our own sons. We believed their nervous systems could be helped to do what they were built to do, and they have.
That is what we bring into every family we work with. We are not coming to this as outside experts looking in. We have sat exactly where you are sitting now, at two in the morning, searching for an answer nobody seemed to have. If your house feels like ours did, we know exactly where to start looking.
