--- title: "Testimonial: Mother of Maria*, age 11, suffering from oppositional defiant disorder and a nonverbal learning disability" description: After six weeks of Maria’s Neurotherapy treatment, we were making plans for Maria to come home. image: https://www.advancedneurotherapy.com/hubfs/Advanced-Neurotherapy-June2017/Image/AdvancedNeurotherapy-Logo-letterhead-171x100.png --- [![advanced neurotherapy](https://www.advancedneurotherapy.com/hs-fs/hubfs/advanced-neurotherapysites-logo.jpg?width=479&name=advanced-neurotherapysites-logo.jpg "advanced neurotherapy")](https://www.advancedneurotherapy.com/) - [About](https://www.advancedneurotherapy.com/about) - [About](https://www.advancedneurotherapy.com/about) - [FAQs](https://www.advancedneurotherapy.com/faqs) - [Blog](https://www.advancedneurotherapy.com/blog) - Resources - [Books](https://www.advancedneurotherapy.com/recommended-books) - [Contact](https://www.advancedneurotherapy.com/contact-us/) ## Testimonial: Mother of Maria\*, age 11, suffering from oppositional defiant disorder and a nonverbal learning disability [July 1, 2014](https://www.advancedneurotherapy.com/blog/testimonial-mother-of-maria-age-11-suffering-from-oppositional-defiant-disorder-and-nonverbal-learning-disability) ***“After six weeks of Maria’s Neurotherapy treatment, we were making plans for Maria to come home. Now, a year later we are anticipating her return to public school in a learning collaborative.*“** *“We adopted Maria at age five from Guatemala, where she and her grandmother were taking care of her two younger siblings, living on garbage and coffee. She acted possessed, screaming and flailing, with her eyes rolling into her head. Doctors in her residential mental health facility thought she would live there until she grew too old and then move to a facility for adolescents. After six weeks of Maria’s Neurotherapy treatment, we were making plans for Maria to come home. 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