My friend's baby has Cerebral Palsy- is the Glenn Doman book good?

[Plarka]

I was planning on buying it for them, but wanted to check first here to see if anyone has anything to say about it. The Amazon reviews say it’s not a ‘how to’ but mostly just stories of other people and about Glenn. Is there another Doman book I should get them along with it? Does he have people using the how to read and math, etc books for brain injured kids?

I do Doman with my well kids, but no experience about it with brain injured.

[Marion_Craig]

Hi, I have Glen Doman’s book about what to do for the brain injured as it was recommended when my son was little. It is great. I would also like to recommend for your friend to do some homework on hyperbaric oxygen therapy for her child. This stimulates the child’s own stem cells to move in and do repair work where the damage is, as does the taking of glyconutrients at a young age especially. (Ref to Mannatech’s ambrotose).
If your friend is near a “Gymbaroo” center this also would be good for her to take her little one.
All the best. Each child is a special treasure, made in the image of God. Ref: Genesis., The Bible.
Kindly,
Marion Craig
B. Sc. Nutrition
PS: One last thing, Probiotics help big time as opportunistic ‘bad bugs’ play a role in damaged tissue, the “good” probiotics help to turn things around.

[TracyR4]

I haven’t any experience with the Brain Injured child. But I would get the book. Most parents get it then go to the Institute to learn how to implement what it is they do. I’ve heard its worth going to though.

As for using Doman reading , math etc. Go for it!! We have parents here that have children with Down’s syndrome that can read.
There is a program called Love and Learning that is like YBCR etc and its used for children with Down’s syndrome , Autism, etc. So yes they can learn to read.
If I’m not mistaken this was actually how the Institutes learned of young children reading. Was by parents bringing their brain injured children there. Doman figured if it worked that well for children with brain injury then how about well children? Well we all know how that turned out :biggrin:

[luvn4]

My child does not have Cp but she does have Down Syndrome. Glenn Doman’s book What to DO about Your Brain Injured Child was helpful but what helped me even more was the How Smart is YOur Baby book. It is full of stimulating activities to do with my daughter and really helped me at a time when my brain really could not think of these thing myself.

Sandy

[andreasro]

I have read the book and I think one should have at least one of the other Doman books too. They complement each other.

Here’s what the mother of Chloe said to me in her thread, about the Doman method for brain injured children
http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-to-read/success-story-brain-injured-child-can-read-they-are-fast-reader!!!/30/:

@chloe post:37

Hi andreasro,

First of all, it’s kind of difficult to say whether the child match to this prog or not, but for the intellectual prog 100% they say very good things, diet prog (to reduce the seizure and maintaining the health) is also good one too, my daughter is now free from seizure, and free from the seizure medication (Phenobarbitone and Depakene/Epilim). However physical prog is hard to tell, some of them I see there’s a lot of improvements, mostly is the mild and moderate one.

In my daughter’s case and others who think that the physical prog not helping much is the severe one, my daughter can’t still use her hand, so she can’t use it for crawl, creep, and so on, so she just depend on her leg to kick, For the one who can use the hand, I see a lot of progress, now I can understand why some of them can why some of then didn’t work at all, but its worth to try though.

If u want the cheaper one, there’s GD center which manage by one of the GD staff Dr. Wang Li in Beijing and Xiamen, China, we once went there, the tuition fee is cheaper than the U.S of course, it spends only 8000RMB, in U.S is crazy, the course fee and etc spend really lot of money. You can search on www.enyubaby.org, the thing that they use mandarin for conversation and mailing, unless you meet dr. Wang Li by yourself. She speaks english well, cause she lives in U.S, either than in China.

Well, ABR is a therapy to repair your body structure, but in this therapy I don’t understand quite well. U can search Leonid Bylum in google, he’s the founder, u can read the web as well, we’ ve been in ABR for 1,5 years, and there’s changing of her body structure after the treatment, but we are not going there anymore, cause the fee is also quite expensive, they have some satellites in some countries.

The last one I try is Masgutova method, but I haven’t got the picture what is like. Some of my Indonesian friends is going to this cause the masgutova is coming to Indonesia. Some of them said this therapy also good.

But going back to the child itself, you can’t hear what people talk but have to try by yourself whether it match to your child or not, because its very individually…

If you want a further info about GD’s Prog, I have some friends who are still going there for years, some are CP’s child and some are Autistic’s Child. If you want, I can give you their contact, they will be glad to help to give the infos…Good luck…

And thanks for the wishes…

Margaret
Mother of Chloe