Symptomatic labels cause confusion and lead to ineffective symptomatic treatment. You will learn about the root cause of your child’s problem. You will have a team to help you move forward with a program that gets results.
Presented live online by the Director and the entire clinical staff of The Institutes. The course teaches you how to create a home program rich in stimulation and opportunity for your child and how to embrace your whole family to get it done.
A complete developmental profile of your child showing the neurological age and rate of growth.
Understand and identify the areas of the brain that may be disorganized.
A comprehensive sensory stimulation program to address visual, auditory and tactile problems such as neurological blindness, deafness and insensateness as well as milder sensory issues.
A comprehensive neurological program that uses all aspects of the child’s physical abilities to promote brain growth.
A comprehensive intellectual program that embraces reading and general knowledge with the goal for each child to catch up and surpass the average child.
A Comprehensive overview of factors that affect children’s health: Food, water, air, and medications. The importance of oxygen enrichment to the brain.
Materials to guide at-home progress for 6–12 month.
Also included: home program consultations two months after completing the course.
A complete developmental profile of your child showing the neurological age and rate of growth.
Understand and identify the areas of the brain that may be disorganized.
A comprehensive sensory stimulation program to address visual, auditory and tactile problems such as neurological blindness, deafness and insensateness as well as milder sensory issues.
A comprehensive neurological program that uses all aspects of the child’s physical abilities to promote brain growth.
A comprehensive intellectual program that embraces reading and general knowledge with the goal for each child to catch up and surpass the average child.
Materials to guide at-home progress for 6–12 month.
Also included: home program consultations two months after completing the course.
A Comprehensive overview of factors that affect children’s health: Food, water, air, and medications. The importance of oxygen enrichment to the brain.
“This course gave us a clear, concrete overview…great hope and energy to improve our daughter’s life.”
Father, Argentina
“The Institutes program simplifies the path forward... puts the power back into the hands of the parents.”
Father, New Jersey
“The entire course is very comprehensive… parents become teachers.”
Parents, Texas & Ecuador
"I saw The Institutes as hope, but I never expected the knowledge I received. I am armed to march into battle. I’m sure I’ll need reinforcements along the way, but I’m ready for whatever it brings. I see the light!”
Mother
USA
“It was everything I expected and a thousand times more. It is so wonderful to finally understand why the things I have been told to do don’t work and simply don’t make sense. It is wonderful to listen to so many people talk about the joy they have in helping our kids instead of slamming the door on them.”
Mother
Australia
“This is the first time I’ve attended a training institute where I actually felt the staff loved and believed in what they were doing and teaching.
It was a pleasure to hear over and over again that a brain-injured child can be helped and had potential.”
Father
Denmark
Since 1955, The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential has taught parents about brain growth and development.
Brain growth is a dynamic process. It is a process that can be stopped or slowed by brain-injury, but most importantly it is a process that can be sped up.
The brain grows by use.
Stimulation and opportunity create brain growth.
Many medications suppress brain function.
A real diagnosis
When hurt children come to us they have often been almost everywhere. Although they have had many assessments and tests, they seldom arrive here with a real diagnosis. Instead, the child has been given symptomatic labels. These symptomatic labels do not tell parents where the problem is, nor do they articulate how much of a problem there is, or how widespread it may be. This is what a real diagnosis must do to be a diagnosis. These labels do not offer anything but confusion, fear and almost always a very poor prognosis. After a careful and extensive evaluation, our children get a real diagnosis which tells parents what area of the brain is involved, what is the degree of injury and what is the extent of injury.
The danger of symptomatic labels is that they will lead to treating those symptoms rather than the underlying cause – injury to the brain. We treat the brain, not the symptoms. Since the brain runs everything there are many ways to treat the brain through stimulation and opportunity. The brain grows by use, just like the biceps so our program is all about growing the brain.
Many children arrive here heavily medicated. They may be taking anti-convulsants, amphetamines, tranquilizers, or anti-psychotics. These medications can have a suppressive effect on the central nervous system. A sedated child is not a healthy child. Sleep, appetite, digestion, and energy can all be negatively affected by these medications. We decrease and remove these medications very carefully to ensure that our children can benefit fully from the stimulation and opportunity that the program provides.
We know that when it comes to children – parents are not the problem, they are always the answer. We know parents from all over the world, from every country and corner of the world. Regardless of culture or custom, when it comes to children, parents are the same. Parents know their kids better than anyone else and parents love their kids more than anyone else. We believe parents are good for their kids and kids are good for their parents. We believe that when parents understand how the brain grows and why it grows the way it does, they are the best therapists their child will ever have.
Brain-injured children have the very best chance to develop and get better when they are at home with their mothers and fathers and their sisters and brothers.
We did not set out 70 years ago to be different. We set out to make our children better. We had to forge a new path and even create a new field of child brain development to do that.
Our course is original in every detail. It is not a copy of anyone else’s course or derived from the work of someone else. It is ours lock, stock and barrel. The Institutes has been teaching parents, and those parents have been getting results with their children for 70 years. Yes, there are many others over these seven decades who have pretended to be doing our work. It might be a compliment if they were just imitating shoes. But hurt children are not shoes. Teaching our parents and helping our kids requires real commitment and deep experience. It also requires honesty, dedication, and courage. We believe the imitators are harmful.
You may have been given one of the 350 symptomatic labels often used for brain-injured children (such as developmental delay, autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, attention deficit disorder, learning problems, persistent vegetative state, or epilepsy). These labels all indicate that there is a problem in the central nervous system.
Our parents arrive with a thousand questions. Hundreds of those questions are answered in the lectures that are presented each day, but aside from these presentations, parents can ask questions every 50 minutes during the course. The entire clinical staff is available to make sure that parents have the maximum opportunity to get their questions answered. As the course progresses, parents can request break-out sessions to talk with staff in the breaks. At the beginning and the end of each day, parents are encouraged to come early or stay after class if they have more questions. Our goal is to answer every question for which we have an answer before the course ends.
Yes. You will go home with:
Yes and no. No, both parents are not required to come together. Yes, it is far better when both mother and father can attend together. It is a life-changing experience, parents often say that they are very happy they made the decision to come at the same time. Getting the program started is easier when both parents understand and can support each other immediately. Another significant advantage: When one parent enrolls that enrollment tuition includes the other parent automatically.
Yes, it is a long time to be away from your child. Yes, you really need all seven days of the course. In fact, those seven days are not enough to teach everything we wish to teach. By the end of the course our parents understand that very well. At the conclusion of the course, you will understand your child much better. You will be looking at your child with bigger eyes. You will have a new respect for your child and your child’s potential. You will know what your child really needs. You will have a real battle plan that shows you exactly what you need to do each day.
We understand. Our parents have been everywhere seeking answers. Often precious funds and resources have been used with not much to show for it. For this reason, if parents enroll and at the end of the first day of our course, they do not feel it is what they want, we will refund the full enrollment.
A real diagnosis
When hurt children come to us they have often been almost everywhere. Although they have had many assessments and tests, they seldom arrive here with a real diagnosis. Instead, the child has been given symptomatic labels. These symptomatic labels do not tell parents where the problem is, nor do they articulate how much of a problem there is, or how widespread it may be. This is what a real diagnosis must do to be a diagnosis. These labels do not offer anything but confusion, fear and almost always a very poor prognosis. After a careful and extensive evaluation, our children get a real diagnosis which tells parents what area of the brain is involved, what is the degree of injury and what is the extent of injury.
The danger of symptomatic labels is that they will lead to treating those symptoms rather than the underlying cause – injury to the brain. We treat the brain, not the symptoms. Since the brain runs everything there are many ways to treat the brain through stimulation and opportunity. The brain grows by use, just like the biceps so our program is all about growing the brain.
Many children arrive here heavily medicated. They may be taking anti-convulsants, amphetamines, tranquilizers, or anti-psychotics. These medications can have a suppressive effect on the central nervous system. A sedated child is not a healthy child. Sleep, appetite, digestion, and energy can all be negatively affected by these medications. We decrease and remove these medications very carefully to ensure that our children can benefit fully from the stimulation and opportunity that the program provides.
We know that when it comes to children – parents are not the problem, they are always the answer. We know parents from all over the world, from every country and corner of the world. Regardless of culture or custom, when it comes to children, parents are the same. Parents know their kids better than anyone else and parents love their kids more than anyone else. We believe parents are good for their kids and kids are good for their parents. We believe that when parents understand how the brain grows and why it grows the way it does, they are the best therapists their child will ever have.
Brain-injured children have the very best chance to develop and get better when they are at home with their mothers and fathers and their sisters and brothers.
We did not set out 70 years ago to be different. We set out to make our children better. We had to forge a new path and even create a new field of child brain development to do that.
Our course is original in every detail. It is not a copy of anyone else’s course or derived from the work of someone else. It is ours lock, stock and barrel. The Institutes has been teaching parents, and those parents have been getting results with their children for 70 years. Yes, there are many others over these seven decades who have pretended to be doing our work. It might be a compliment if they were just imitating shoes. But hurt children are not shoes. Teaching our parents and helping our kids requires real commitment and deep experience. It also requires honesty, dedication, and courage. We believe the imitators are harmful.
You may have been given one of the 350 symptomatic labels often used for brain-injured children (such as developmental delay, autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, attention deficit disorder, learning problems, persistent vegetative state, or epilepsy). These labels all indicate that there is a problem in the central nervous system.
Our parents arrive with a thousand questions. Hundreds of those questions are answered in the lectures that are presented each day, but aside from these presentations, parents can ask questions every 50 minutes during the course. The entire clinical staff is available to make sure that parents have the maximum opportunity to get their questions answered. As the course progresses, parents can request break-out sessions to talk with staff in the breaks. At the beginning and the end of each day, parents are encouraged to come early or stay after class if they have more questions. Our goal is to answer every question for which we have an answer before the course ends.
Yes. You will go home with:
Yes and no. No, both parents are not required to come together. Yes, it is far better when both mother and father can attend together. It is a life-changing experience, parents often say that they are very happy they made the decision to come at the same time. Getting the program started is easier when both parents understand and can support each other immediately. Another significant advantage: When one parent enrolls that enrollment tuition includes the other parent automatically.
Yes, it is a long time to be away from your child. Yes, you really need all seven days of the course. In fact, those seven days are not enough to teach everything we wish to teach. By the end of the course our parents understand that very well. At the conclusion of the course, you will understand your child much better. You will be looking at your child with bigger eyes. You will have a new respect for your child and your child’s potential. You will know what your child really needs. You will have a real battle plan that shows you exactly what you need to do each day.
We understand. Our parents have been everywhere seeking answers. Often precious funds and resources have been used with not much to show for it. For this reason, if parents enroll and at the end of the first day of our course, they do not feel it is what they want, we will refund the full enrollment.
The single most important resource for a parent of hurt children whether you take one of our courses or not, is to read this book. Glenn Doman covers the fundamentals of injured-brain development, and what can be done to set a child on a course to recovery.
Course graduates receive guidance from experienced child brain developmentalists and phone check-ins postcourse. They are eligible for an appointment at The Institutes and participation in the Intensive Treatment Program in the future.
For over 70 years thousands of parents from more than 100 nations have proven that their hurt children can get better when they understand why the brain grows as it does and how to enhance that growth. This is the foundation for a pathway to wellness.
