History
Snowdrop's History
The founder of Snowdrop is Andrew Brereton. The background of
Snowdrop begins with Andrew's son Daniel who was born in 1987 with
what were described as 'catastrophic brain injuries.' These
injuries resulted in profound cerebral palsy. You can read
about Daniel's story here. Through Daniel, Andrew became
fascinated with neuroscience and child development, studying at
various universities.
After many years of study, Andrew gained a host of qualifications
and decided it was time to begin work in trying to help other
children. His qualifications are as follows:
BA (Hons). based in 'Psychology, Neurophysiology and Child
Development.'
Post Graduate Diploma in 'Social Science.'
Post Graduate Certificate in 'Professional Studies in
Education.'
Post Graduate Diploma (with distinction) in 'Language and
Communication Impairments in Children.'
MSc, based in 'Cognitive Neuroscience, Connectionist Modelling and
Child Development.'
Andrew was recently elected to be a 'Fellow of the Royal Society
of Arts.'
Snowdrop began in 2007 when we treated our first children, one
from South Africa and one from the UK. The success we
achieved with these two boys soon meant that other children found
their way to us and before we knew it, things were
'snowballing.' Today, 75% of our children are UK based, but
we have children on programme in Canada, the USA, Australia, New
Zealand, India, Romania, Sweden, Nigeria, South Africa plus many
more places. Our reputation continues to grow and it does so
because it is based upon results. Just ask our families about the
difference we have made to their children. You can speak to our
families on our private Facebook group. Just email us and we can
give you a visitor's pass for two weeks where you can interact with
our families and actually see the progress the children are
making.