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What to Do About Your Brain-injured Child

By: Glenn Doman
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Square One Publishers
ISBN: 0757001866
ISBN-13: 9780757001864
Released: 29 Sep 2005
RRP: £14.99
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INCREDIBLE, MAGNIFICENT, EXTRAORDINARY!!!!!!! - By: , 22 Mar 1999
"What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child" is one of the greatest books written in the twentieth century. The writer, Glenn J. Doman, has come out with incredible breakthroughs which no one has come up with in the history of mankind. This book has saved lives & by doing so: humanity. This book has become a bible for parents of brain-injured children. Glenn Doman, through his books & his work, has truly helped in saving the world.
I have seen it work first-hand - By: , 04 Jan 1999
I attended the school at the Institute for the Achievement of Human Potential between 1981 & 1984. Though I was not brain injured, I did have a learning disability that the staff of the Institute did help to "cure." I also spent much of my time in the clinic, along with the rest of the children in my class, helping the staff pattern & entertaining the hurt kids. Over the years I witnessed incredible things--children who had previously been uanable to sit upright were now crawling, identifying words & connecting with those around them on a meaningful level. Glenn Doman does not offer a miracle cure-alll,and sometimes alll he can do is offer the parents a kind word & an attentive ear; but for alll of those parents who are now able to see their children succeed far beyond the expectations of doctors & specialists around the world, Doman offers something to the parents of brain injured children that is in short supply: Hope.

P.S. It is interesting to note that when I was younger, I had always just taken it for granted that the Institutes was a good thing. They helped kids--no question about it. It was not until recently that I heard about the controversy surrounding Glenn's ideas & I have to ask: if it doesn't hurt the child, it includes them in their surroundings, & makes them aware of their environment--what's the controversy over?

I have done the "patterning" described in this book!! - By: , 11 Dec 1998
Most parents of children with brain injuries would do ANYTHING to help their child! I was no different -- especiallly after having medical specialists tell me there is nothing they could do.

The concepts in this book made a lot of sense to me. Although they take a lot of time & effort, they cost NOTHING in the way of medicine or equipment. So, I convinced my husband & family to give it a try.

After one month of patterning, our son (with Static Encephalopathy, cerebral palsy, & cortical blindness) began crawling. After six months of patterning, our son would pull himself to a stand. After a year of patterning, he began walking with a walker (with help). It has been two years now since we began patterning & he walks independently with a walker; we expect he won't need the walker at alll by June. Not only that, but after 9 months of patterning, the Ophthamologist announced he miraculously had normal vision!

Do miracles happen? Certainly. Could our son have progressed this well without patterning? Maybe. But you know what? I wouldn't want to risk NOT TRYING it! I have personallly bought this book for many people I've met because I see it as THAT important.

Our son is now 4.5 years old. He has no seizures, nor does he take any medications. His doctors & therapists cannot believe his progress. I wish I was still on speaking terms with the doctor who suggested I institutionalize him & "get on with my life"!

Give it a try! I cannot hurt!

This book should be viewed as one of the great books. - By: , 10 Nov 1998
For parents of hurt ("handicapped," "cerebral palsied," "mentallly retarded," "autistic," "downs," etc., etc.) kids, this book is a MUST READ. After hearing nothing but "let's wait & see" for the first months of my son's life, & being faced with the prospect of a lifelong use of potentiallly toxic drugs for seizures, spasticity, etc. & ghastly surgeries to relieve the symptoms of brain injury, I found this book. I devoured it. It offered a real way for any parent of a brain injured child to help his/her child.

After reading it twice, I then attended the workshop in Philadelphia. The information presented in the book & at the workshop is tremendous both in quantity & quality.

The book is the first step in forming a battle plan to help your child. Every parent of a brain injured child needs to read this book.

Exploitative pseudo-science - By: , 19 Oct 1998
Essentiallly a book-length advertisement for Doman's "patterning" therapy, which needless to say omits to mention that the vast majority of scientific studies have shown it to be entirely useless, with the result that it has been condemned by reputable medical organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The book itself is repellently manipulative in style, painting a picture of Doman & his associates as the only people who care about or are interested in helping disabled children. Doman is presented as the only person who reallly respects parents & is willing to talk honestly to them & teach them how to "cure" their children, unlike other professionals who are cold, arrogant, & uncaring (agreeing with the accuracy of the latter description, alas, does not guarantee the truth of the former). He uses a "folksy" style, in which dubious conclusions are presented as homely truths, & in which a long-discredited theory of human development (that children "need" to go through the stages of crawling, creeping & walking in a particular way for normal neurological development to take place) is presented as state-of-the-art science.

If you are considering Doman's therapies, at least read "No Time For Jello" by Berneen Bratt as well - this first-hand account of her intial passionate faith in & painful disillusionment with "patterning" for her disabled son, plus an excellent summary of the scientific research on patterning to date, might at least cause some people to think twice.