What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child
What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child
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Or Your Brain-damaged, Mentally Retarded, Mentally Deficient,
Cerebral-palsied, Epileptic, Autistic, Athetoid, Hyperactive,
Attention Deficit Disordered, Developmentally Delayed, Downs Child.
By Glenn Doman®
Hardcover - 318 pages
In this valuable volume for parents and professionals, Glenn Doman documents The Institutes® more than 65-year success with the brain-injured, citing statistics and case histories, and illustrating the basic principles of brain development with charts, diagrams and drawings.
The author explains why the old theories and techniques have failed. He defines The Institutes philosophy and revolutionary treatment of the brain rather than the body, recounts his staff's worldwide research, and details their tireless efforts to refine the treatment of brain injury.
He reveals their lifesaving techniques and their tools to measure – and ultimately improve – mobility, language, manual, visual, auditory and tactile development, including unique methods of patterning, masking and motivation. In addition, Glenn Doman explains The Institutes individualized home program in which parents, and love, are the vital ingredients. All of this is so that the brain-injured child can one day live with his peers, not in an institution.
The great majority of children will do better than their parents had dared hope on the basis of prior experience with the conventional methods. With others, there will be disappointment. However, any and all improvement in the child will have been accomplished by parents – those commonly ignored, sometimes despised, frequently patronized, almost-never-believed people.
This book is the first book in history, to my knowledge, which tells how to treat brain-injured children, why to treat brain-injured children, and most precisely what happened to a group of brain-injured children when they were so treated. - Raymundo Veras, MD
The true and touching story of the efforts of an obviously highly educated group of workers who believe thoroughly in what they are doing. . . (who) have unquestionably helped many children and their families. - Louise B. Ames, The Gessell Institute for Child Development
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This book was fascinating and totally reframed my thinking in dealing with my brain-injured child! Everyone should have access to this material!
You taught me to save my son's life, i am eternally grateful.
Reading this book is the best thing we could ever have done for our daughter. Our daughter was about to turn 1 and was not crawling yet (she has Down Syndrome and a history of Infantile Spasms) and a Mom in our area gave us a crawling track that her Husband made after reading this book. Our daughter started crawling on her own 3 days later. She was ready to start but needed the gravity to help her succeed. We went nuts with IAHP after that. All of the info is on their website iahp.org and I wanted to leave to Philadelphia right away and take the course. They told me about the book and reading it was a requirement for the course so we got the book, read it (mind blown), and booked our tickets and started the home program. That was one year ago and our daughter (that has Trisomy 21 and a history of seizures that are known to cause Autism in some) who just turned 2 is reading at a 6yr old level, and her level of understanding is absolutely increadible. Our daughter who at 6 months lost the ability to sit up for 4 months due to having Infantile Spasms is now on the verge of running, she is climbing like crazy, and is rolling all over the place with the beginning of her gymnastics program. Her eye contact came back, nystagmus and strabismus are gone. After 2 months on their program (with diet change) her 2nd sleep study went from 80 incidents of sleep apnea to not having sleep apnea anymore. I could go on and on and it has only been 1yr. My Husband and I do work from home and do this with her all day long, we dedicate out whole lives to helping her succeed, but there are many that have just as much success from only reading the books.I strongly recommend reading another book in their series as well- How To Multiply Your Babies Intelligence. That one goes over many of the other programs in great detail so you can do them at home. You can always call or email the staff from iahp.org and they can answer questions for you (you have to have read this book 1st though, makes sense so they aren't answering the same questions over and over).To those that complain about the biography stuff, don't let that stop you from the knowledge in this series. I skip through and go back and forth, you don't have to read straight through.To those that complain about time, even doing a little of the program is better than none... it can't hurt to try.Best wishes to all of you seeking help.
it's useful to me, finally found the way to solve my problem, I hope it do help my son. thanks for the writter.
For any parent or caretaker or professional that works with kids who have any of the diagnosis listed on the book or similar. This book will enlighten your journey in how to care for your child. It has changed my perspective and I have seen wonderful positive results just from learning what I have read in this book.