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The Institutes teaches parents how to evaluate and treat their brain-injured child at home. From the Home Study Program to the Intensive Treatment Program, the objective is to help brain-injured children develop physically, intellectually and socially so that they may one day live among peers, not in special schools or institutions.
- Program I Home Study
- Program II "What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child" Course
- Program III The Home Program Consultation
- Program IV The Lecture Series
- Program V The Aspirant Program
- Program VI The Intensive Treatment Program
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Brain Injury
Imagine
I guess it is obvious that we each have a different view of the world. It is certainly clear to me that no two human beings have exactly the same experiences, and as a result we each have our own unique viewpoint. Even so, it has taken me a long, long time to realize how powerful that viewpoint may be in changing the world for better or for worse.
For example, it has taken me quite a while to recognize that not everyone looks at a brain-injured child and sees the same child I see.
Other Books
Todd - The Story of a Brain-Injured Child
David Melton (The Institutes Press)
Todd is a book by a father about his son. It is at once a mystery story, a story of war against brain injury and a gentle love story full of compassion, humor and most of all, courage. It is the best kind of story-a real one- with a real-life mom and dad, daughter and son, who have a monumental problem to solve-brain injury.
What Causes Brain Injury?
Brain injury is due to forces from outside the brain itself rather than to any inherent, pre-conception, built-in deficiency. We know of at least a hundred factors that can hurt a good brain subsequent to that instant of conception. There may be a thousand.
In point of fact, it is not terribly important how a brain got injured-what counts is how badly and where. Nevertheless, a brain can get hurt in so many ways that it may be worthwhile to review some of them, if only to show that it can happen to anybody.
Bibliography
Dart, Raymond, M.D.: Adventures with the Missing Link (Philadelphia, PA.: The Better Baby Press, 1982; Great Britain: Hamish Hamilton, Ltd., 1959.)
Diamond, Marian Cleeves, Ph.D.: Enriching Heredity, The Impact of the Environment on the Anatomy of the Brain (New York, NY: The Free Press, 1988.)