Jane Lloyd

Jane has postgraduate qualifications in dyslexia teaching systems, mild and moderate learning difficulties and educational evaluation and research techniques. She taught for many years in a specialist dyslexic school. She has since trained extensively in therapies which address stress, toxicity and neuro-development and developed comprehensive educational and sensory integration test protocols. She has used many different therapeutic approaches. These include developmental exercise programmes, reflex integration programmes, sound therapy, nutritional therapy, bioresonance and complex brain kinesiology systems. All these systems were later incorporated into a unique hands-on bioresonance approach which was carefully evaluated and then programmed onto a bioresonance machine. This became the Edutherapy Programme.

"I had my first child thirty years ago and like most new mothers I was in awe of the amazing potential residing in that tiny infant. At the time I was confident that my husband I and would provide the right environment for her to grow and develop her unique abilities and in the first three years of her life nothing much occurred to shake that confidence. My son came along two and a half years later and, like his sister, he did all the things that babies are supposed to do and was wonderful. A year or so later I began to realise that bringing up children is actually not that easy.

My beautiful daughter became 'difficult'. We were perceptive enough to see that there was nothing wrong with her and that we were somehow no longer able to provide for her needs in the right way. We were not clever enough to see exactly what those needs were and how they could be met. It took another couple of years for us to realise that she was destined to be a violinist. In fact she had told us this when she was four but we had not realised the importance of this and did not give her a violin until she was nearly seven. We came to realise that creative children must have their needs met in exactly the right way or they get depressed and depression in children tends to show itself as oppositional behaviour.

The path to becoming a good violinist is not easy but at least it is a well-worn one and children are encouraged to perform at the highest level from an early age. My son's gifts were not so obvious and in his early years he survived the ups and downs of life with us and his sister by being one big sense of humour. In the end the compromises took their toll. Where she was a performer, he needed conversation. Words were his stage - all he ever wanted to do was talk. His peers were not so interested and he was always being told to keep quiet. He crashed quite spectacularly at six and a half and it took many years to understand the consequent damage to his brain processing and how that could be put right.

It was obvious to me at the time that my children were not unique. Several of their friends who had no problems as toddlers were developing problems once they got to school and their particular needs were not being met. I set out to see if I could do something to make a difference. The journey which followed took me through countless training courses, teaching systems and therapies. I trained in anything which I thought could give me more insight into how children operated and what could be blocking their potential and I worked with many gifted professionals along the way. I have used many different combinations of systems with thousands of children, always with the aim of developing affordable, accessible solutions that would be within reach of the average family. Many of those children have developed into extraordinary young people.

I have now come to realise that there was nothing particularly special about my two children. Every young child is creative, every child is special and every child has something unique to bring to the world. The problem is that in most cases life produces a variety of stressors which mask children's potential. As a result they don't know where they are going and so we can't help them. Many children are blocked before they even enter this world as a result of pre-natal and peri-natal stressors which have affected their development. Others succumb to environmental factors in their early years. We tend to write many of these children off, give them a label, call them 'special' in the sense that they will require extra support or special education and nothing much should be expected of them.

The Edutherapy programme is designed to deliver everything I and those special people I have worked with over the years have learned about removing stress and making a difference. It does not replace providing the right environment for a child to grow but it should help that path become clearer. Above all, it makes effective solutions available to large numbers of people and I believe that every child has the right to find out what is special about them and make their own unique contribution to the world."

 

Nichole Forward

Nichole was employed in the banking and financial industry before leaving work to raise her family. More recently she has trained as a systematic kinesiologist and undertaken various courses, including diet and nutrition. She now carries out the administration for an online travel agency for four days a week, and spends one day a week undertaking the many administrative tasks involved in running Edutherapy.

"I am married with 3 children, aged 16, 15 and 11. I was introduced to Jane when I started to experience behavioural problems with my eldest son, who had been diagnosed as mildly autistic (on a scale of 1 to 10, he was about 1). He improved with dietary intervention but was still “not quite right”. Jane carried out a full assessment and we have never looked back.

I am very committed to complementary therapies and have raised my children with the complementary ethos that I truly believe in. I have always maintained contact with Jane, and have spent a few years working with her, sitting in on consultations and doing part of the children’s assessments. The treatments offered by Edutherapy have changed and improved continuously over the years."