are numerous studies in the literature that have looked at the child's severity classification at this age and the results are clear. The majority of children stay at the same level of severity or deteriorate with growth during their teen years. http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx\\... The problem with these studies is that they are measuring the severity of the child's early acquired Habits at baseline and they find no change in these early acquired Habits at later follow-up. I interpret these results as excellent proof that "doing more of the same harder" does not produce anything beneficial. I have demonstrated over and over again on this site that Habit Hides Recovery... The child's early movement patterns are abnormal because they were learned with a damaged, immature brain. Later movement patterns are learned with a recovered, more mature brain and they may be NORMAL. We walk and run with the same parts of the brain, yet in The Boy Who Could Run Better Than He Could Walk, the young boy walks with a limp and played soccer brilliantly. (see: The boy who could run better than he could walk ) His brain had clearly recovered because he is able to run normally, with a four point reciprocal pattern. We do not need to teach him how to walk, we need to change his Habit. Christine, shown below, still walks with difficulty as her walking pattern is an early habit and habits are hard to change. With lots of hard work, she now jogs in