New Charity Launched to Provide Cutting Edge Treatment for Brain Injured Children

Snowdrop For Brain Injured Children, who provide

programmes of neurological stimulation for children with a wide variety

of developmental disabilities has launched today as a charity.

Snowdrop, based just outside Exeter, was originally founded and run as a private consultancy in

child development by Andrew Brereton in 2007 as a consequence of brain

injuries sustained by his own son in 1987. Daniel's injuries motivated

Andrew to study neuroscience and child development to a level where he

became qualified to treat children's neurodevelopmental disabilities.

Since 2007, Snowdrop has been successfully treating children from all

over the world. Children who have diagnoses of cerebral palsy, autism,

ADHD, PDD, traumatic brain injury, stroke, developmental delay, learning

difficulties and many more disorders can benefit from the programme of

treatment, which is carried out in the child's own home by the child's

family. Snowdrop also treats children who have varied genetic disorders

such as Down's syndrome and -18p

The success of the programme, which is based upon stimulating the

plasticity of the brain and directing that plasticity down a

developmental pathway, (as can be seen from the footage below), has made

it necessary for Snowdrop to expand. In order to do this and to raise

the funds to do so, Snowdrop had to apply for charitable status, which

will open up avenues of funding which were previously unavailable.

Snowdrop has children in the UK and all over the world who are now

walking, talking, seeing, hearing and doing many other incredible

things, who would probably otherwise never have done so. On the Snowdrop 'YouTube' channel, which can be found here you can see a few of the children on our programme and the astonishing

successes they are achieving. In one clip you see a little boy who at 6

weeks of age suffered a stroke which took out the entire left side of

his brain. His parents were told he would never use his right arm or

leg. Consequently he would never walk, would be in a wheelchair for the

rest of his life and because language is produced by the left

hemisphere of the brain, he would never understand or produce language.

He has been on the Snowdrop programme for just over 10 months and here

you see him out for a walk in the park! He is also talking and is now

generally ahead of his age level in every area of development. There

are many, many stories such as this.

Snowdrop is hoping to raise funds to build a new centre where it will

have the facilities to help even more children and their families.

There is a donation page on the Snowdrop website

and all donations, no matter how small are gratefully received and will

either go towards the cost of providing treatment for children or

towards the fund for the new centre. Snowdrop desperately needs people

to help with fundraising, so anyone wishing to organise a fundraising

event to help Snowdrop should contact Andrew Brereton at

info@snowdrop.cc

Andrew is also a published author and broadcaster in the field of

special needs having written articles for national newspapers, special

needs journals and periodicals and having appeared on TV. He is the

author of books titled Brain Injured Children. - Tapping the Potential Within Autism. A Guide to Understanding and Helping Your Child and Cerebral Palsy. - A Short Guide.