Greetings from Denmark! We are kicking off the New Year with our FAMILY letter. We hope to use this to communicate to all of our families and to allow you to share your stories and help encourage others along the way. We also hope to include other tools and resources that will assist you in your journey with your children.

Dear Family, Staying healthy is the most important thing you can do for yourself and your family. As the recent epidemic of Influenza raises general concerns for infectious diseases, we are sending these fundamental guidelines to help you make wise choices for your health. Stay away from sick people! Keep at least 3 feet away from people, especially if you

An Overview of the Brain Score Approach At the Family Hope Center we believe that fetal and birth trauma can cause many chronic diseases. The effects of a difficult pregnancy, multiple gestation, a long hard labor, the use of forceps/vacuum suction, a caesarian section, the umbilical cord knotted or wrapped around the throat, and other physical traumas can create tissue tightness, seriously impair the function of the brain, and sow the seeds of future illnesses. We are involved with treating children having conditions that span from the outer range of serious brain injury including autism, cerebral palsy, and epilepsy to less severe nervous system diseases such as ADHD, strabismus, and reading (dyslexia) and speech disorders to the more common pediatric illnesses of asthma, earache, colic, esophageal reflux, headache, rhinitis, neck ache, and scoliosis. We believe that these children have fallen through the cracks of the global health care system at birth because of the lack of effective central nervous system assessment and treatment. Since prevention at birth is far superior to treatment for children with these fifteen conditions later in life, we are introducing the Brain Score as a screening tool to assess neonatal neurophysiology and craniosacral fascial therapy to help mitigate the effects of fetal and birth injuries. We believe that research will show that this Brain Score approach will significantly decrease by at least 50% the incidence of each of these fifteen diseases worldwide. Birthing professionals now perform the Apgar score to check the critical vital signs that give life to the newborn. If a life-threatening situation presents, they can take appropriate medical action. If a low Brain Score indicates impaired neurophysiology, they can now offer craniosacral fascial treatment to help mitigate the nine months of fetal and birth trauma to the central nervous system. We also envision the mother-to-be having craniosacral fascial therapy before

INTRODUCTION Developmental reading disorder, also called dyslexia, is a reading disability resulting from the inability to process graphic symbols.1 As many as forty percent of all early elementary school students in the United States have some initial difficulty learning to read.2 Nearly one-half of these students have significant problems and continuing hardships in school with reading fluency, comprehension, and spelling.2 Reading disorder is clearly more frequent in boys than in girls.3 No medical care is indicated for this condition, but appropriate referrals to special education and/or tutoring settings are needed.2 Another more corrective approach can be through the craniosacral fascial system, an integration of the craniosacral and fascial or connective tissue components.

INTRODUCTION: Headaches are common among children.1One third of all seven-year-old and one half of all fifteen-year-old children experience headaches.2 Two and one-half percent of all seven-year-old and fifteen percent of all fifteen-year-old children have “frequent” headaches.3 Current evaluation involves taking a history and performing physical and neurological examinations; treatment consists of palliative care such as rest and/or analgesics.1 Another more corrective approach can be through the craniosacral fascial system, an integration of the craniosacral and fascial or connective tissue components.

An Overview of the Brain Score Approach At the Family Hope Center we believe that fetal and birth trauma can cause many chronic diseases. The effects of a difficult pregnancy, multiple gestation, a long hard labor, the use of forceps/vacuum suction, a caesarian section, the umbilical cord knotted or wrapped around the throat, and other physical traumas can create tissue tightness, seriously impair the function of the brain, and sow the seeds of future illnesses. We are involved with treating children having conditions that span from the outer range of serious brain injury including autism, cerebral palsy, and epilepsy to less severe nervous system diseases such as ADHD, strabismus, and reading (dyslexia) and speech disorders to the more common pediatric illnesses of asthma, earache, colic, esophageal reflux, headache, rhinitis, neck ache, and scoliosis. We believe that these children have fallen through the cracks of the global health care system at birth because of the lack of effective central nervous system assessment and treatment. Since prevention at birth is far superior to treatment for children with these fifteen conditions later in life, we are introducing the Brain Score as a screening tool to assess neonatal neurophysiology and craniosacral fascial therapy to help mitigate the effects of fetal and birth injuries. We believe that research will show that this Brain Score approach will significantly decrease by at least 50% the incidence of each of these fifteen diseases worldwide. Birthing professionals now perform the Apgar score to check the critical vital signs that give life to the newborn. If a life-threatening situation presents, they can take appropriate medical action. If a low Brain Score indicates impaired neurophysiology, they can now offer craniosacral fascial treatment to help mitigate the nine months of fetal and birth trauma to the central nervous system. We also envision the mother-to-be having craniosacral fascial therapy before

INTRODUCTION Asthma is an inflammatory disorder of the airways that causes wheezing, shortness of breath, chest tightness, and coughing.1 Nine million children in America under the age of eighteen have been diagnosed with asthma.2 The asthma rate in American children under the age of five has increased more than 160% from 1980 to 1994.3 Approximately 5,000 Americans die every year from asthma.2 Healthcare costs in America for asthma are over sixteen billion dollars annually.2 An estimated 300 million people of all ages and ethnic backgrounds from all over the globe suffer from asthma and approximately 250,000 people a year die from it.4 Current Western treatment focuses on managing asthma with two types of medication. In the first group anti-inflammatory drugs (corticosteroids) reduce swelling and mucous formation in the airways. Secondly, bronchodilators relax the smooth muscle cells that tighten around the airways; the child’s breathing improves when the tracheobronchial tree opens.5 An alternative strategy for reducing and potentially even eliminating asthma symptoms involves manipulation of the craniosacral fascial system. This system is an integration of the craniosacral and fascial or connective tissue components. William Sutherland D.O. discovered the craniosacral aspect about one hundred years ago.6 He found that the cranial bones and sacrum moved as the brain “breathed”. More recently John Upledger D.O. furthered the concept by discovering that the strain from trauma was primarily held in the connective tissue of the cranial dura and not the bones.7 In the craniosacral concept human physiology is strongly dependant on the slight motion of the brain and spinal cord and the fluctuation of the cerebrospinal fluid within the meningeal and osseous systems.8-15 Craniosacral theory holds that trauma can impair the normal rhythms of this fluctuation and result in disease and organ dysfunction. Manual therapy can help rebalance these natural nervous