How long is a Delacato programme likely to take before improvements can be seen?
In the age range 2-10 we have seen children make noticable progress where these children are “high functioning” on the ASD spectrum within 8 months of commencement of the programme, and expect at 16 months to see major significant improvements. We have had children starting the programme at 2-3 years and to commence primary school at age 5 reading and writing well. These are the “mildly brain injured” children. Often there can be observable improvement after 4 months. For the more seriously affected children, we expect some changes in the first 8 months. More eye contact, better attention span, better behaviour, some ability to recognise letters and numbers, maybe words, maybe some simple maths. Better coordination,some ability to manage feeding. After 2 years of the programme we would expect to see a more independant child.
