The Simply Smarter Project: 9 +/-2 is a proactive international effort to help everyone achieve his or her potential.
The Simply Smarter Project is an initiative of the National Academy for Child Development an international non-profit organization. The Simply Smarter Project may become the largest research and development program ever undertaken.
Phase I of The Simply Smarter Project involves testing hundreds of thousands of children and adults from all over the planet. This free 15 minute on-line test will help parents, adults, educators and governments learn how close we are all coming to reaching our potentials. Most of us are not coming close, many are failing and all of us can do better. We need to do much better!
Testing involves evaluation of sequential processing, the means with which we take in information and the basic mechanism we use to think and access our innate intelligence.
Sequential processing can be measured and most importantly improved, often dramatically so.
Phase II of The Simply Smarter Project 9+/-2 involves helping people within their homes and schools as well as within the workplace to raise their processing skills and global function.
Children and adults who are failing can lead normal lives, average people can be exceptional and the exceptional can help save the planet.
We have the knowledge, we have the tools, all we need is the will to help everyone become all that they can be.
With the knowledge we have today we have the ability to change minds and perhaps save the world.
The National Academy for Child Development (NACD) is an international non-profit organization dedicated to assisting individuals in achieving their innate potential. While our name reflects the organization’s historical emphasis on child development, NACD is at the forefront of investigating, developing and implementing methodologies to enhance neurological/brain function for individuals of all ages.
Under the direction of Robert J. Doman, Jr., NACD has created a unique approach to human development and the remediation of developmental, educational and neurological problems. NACD has also pioneered the development of methodologies for the development of processing skills—the basic building blocks of cognition.
NACD believes that through the application of specific, appropriate neurodevelopmental and cognitive activities, virtually everyone can achieve a higher level of function and an improved quality of life.
NACD’s 25 years of experience combined with the design and supervision of 30 million hours of one-on-one therapy sessions and extensive development of sequential processing treatments have yielded a novel theoretic concept in relation to short-term and working memory. Along with other researchers, NACD is now convinced the development of brain structure and function can be accelerated during the first seven years—and can continue throughout our lifetimes. This understanding requires a paradigm shift, for we must now view individuals as having unlimited potential if we provide them with the opportunities necessary for brain/neurological development.
For decades, neurological functioning—or a person’s ability to process information—has been measured in digits. The accepted premise as been that sequential processing increased one digit per year and stopped at the age of seven to nine years, leaving us with limited short-term working memory of 7+/- 2. The brain research community has long believed this function could not be changed or developed through intervention.
NACD believes that up to 50 percent of the adult population is functioning with digit spans below 7, which represents the processing skills of a typical five or six year-old child. With our new initiative, The Simply Smarter Project, NACD aims to raise the level of sequential processing function of our society from 7+/- 2 digits, to 9 +/- 2 digits.
In Phase I of The Simply Smarter Project, NACD is collecting a large amount of data to help determine the digit span/processing skills in any given sector of the population. This information is helping us to establish new norms and to demonstrate how significant sequential processing is, and how easily we can change the world with The Simply Smarter Project.
In Phase II of The Simply Smarter Project, NACD is working to raise the sequential processing function of individuals and society from 7 +/- 2 to 9 +/- 2 digits. We are providing instructions and materials to parents and schools to work directly to improve their children’s processing skills. We have also developed the NACD Simply Smarter Software v2.0 Software that can be used easily and effectively by children and adults for the same purpose.
Among The Simply Smarter Project's immediate implications is enhancing the quality of life for individuals who function below 7 digits. Such individuals may experience difficulty learning, keeping jobs, establishing personal relationships, and communicating with others. For the average person we want to increase basic processing, thus globally improving function. For those who function above 7 digits, we want to enable them to develop superior mental abilities, which could help solve the crucial problems facing our planet today.
As a participant in The Simply Smarter Project, you can assist us in achieving these goals. Sequential processing of 7, 9, or even 12 digits and higher is now a reality, a reality that is within your grasp. We have the knowledge; we have the tools; we need the opportunity. We invite you to join us in truly changing the world.
Over the last 25 years, NACD has been observing and documenting significant changes and improvements as the result of directly increasing auditory and visual sequential processing in the following areas: