Accommodation is a processes of changing our neurological structure to meet new needs.

• A touch on the cheek with the finger does not bring satisfaction. A touch from the nipple of a bottle full of mother’s milk does.

• Accommodation: Eventually the child after he/she has experienced the finger with its disappointing results, will learn to discriminate between a finger and a nipple. This change is accommodation. It represents neural growth. Accommodation, then is going from one wrung of the ladder to the next.

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