What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child

by Glenn Doman

Overview

In this landmark book, Glenn Doman-pioneer in the treatment of brain-injured children-brings real hope to thousands of children who have been given up for lost and sentenced to a life of institutional confinement. Glenn Doman is the founder and head of the world-famous Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, which has treated 15,000 patients in the United States and many other nations. In this valuable volume for parents and fellow professionals, Doman documents The Institutes' half-century of success with the brain-injured, citing statistics and case histories, and illustrating the basic principles of brain development with charts, diagrams, and drawings.

He explains why the old theories and techniques failed, explains The Institutes' philosophy and revolutionary treatment of the brain rather than the body, recounts his staff's worldwide research, their breakthroughs and setbacks, and 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 to 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780757001871
Publisher:	Square One Publishers
Publication date:	03/15/2005
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	888,766
Product dimensions:	6.38(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Glenn Doman received his degree in physical therapy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1940. From that point on, he began pioneering the field of child brain development. In 1955, he founded The Institutes' world-renowned work with brain-injured children had led to vital discoveries regarding the growth and development of well children. The author has lived with, studied, and worked with children in more than one hundred nations, ranging from the most civilized to the most primitive. Doman is also the international best-selling author of six books, all part of the Gentle Revolution Series, including How To Teach Yor Baby To Read, How To Teach Your Baby Math, and How To Give Your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	xi
	Preface	xiii
1	Brain-Injured Children Today	1
	Decade of Despair-1940 to 1950
2	Temple Fay	7
3	I Am Plunged Deep Into the Heart of Brain Injury-and Despair	15
4	A Research Team Begins to Shape Up, 1947 to 1950	21
5	A Catch-as-catch-can Organization	31
	Decade of Discovery-1950 to 1960
6	A Journey Through Failure	35
7	We Seek Help and So We Grow	39
8	The Search for Normality	42
9	The Floor	49
10	The Roadblock-Injury	53
11	Patterning	59
12	The Question of Reception and Expression	66
13	The Institutes Are Born	74
14	Sensation and Its Importance to Movement	82
15	Breathing	93
16	We Put It to the Test	101
17	Speech	109
18	Reading	117
	Decade of Expansion-1960 to 1970
19	Finding the Break in the Circuit	127
20	Closing the Break in the Circuit	147
21	So What's Going on in the Body? Function Determine Structure	186
22	So What's Going on in the Brain? Function Determine Structure	190
23	The Death of Temple Fay	202
24	Parents Are Not the Problem: Parents Are the Answer	208
25	On Motivation	214
26	Who is Brain-Injured? Who is Not?	222
27	How Many Brain-Injured Children Are There?	230
28	What Causes Brain Injury?	233
29	The Past, Present, and Future of the Brain-Injured Child	237
	The Future-1970 to The Present
30	The End of the Beginning	253
31	Where Do We Go from Here?	267
32	The Family is the Answer	277
33	Results-The Only Thing That Matters	283
	Do You Need Help?	288
	Appendices
	Detoxification from Anticonvulsants	289
	Children with Severe Brain Injuries	292
	The Inclined Floor Instructions	306
	Credits	307
	Bibliography	309
	Index	315