The Institutes staff have more than 700 years of combined experience in child brain development. We work as an integrated team to insure that every child has exactly what is needed to progress.
Dr. Dimancescu is chairman of the board of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential and president of The International Academy for Child Brain Development.
Dr. Mihai Dimancescu was born in England to Romanian parents. His family lived in Marrakesh, Morocco, for eight years and moved to the United States in 1956. Following graduation from Yale University, he attended Trinity College, Harvard, for a year before studying medicine at the University of Toulouse.
Following his surgical residency and his neurosurgical residency, Dr. Dimancescu established his practice in neurosurgery in New York.
As founder of the International Coma Recovery Institute, Dr. Dimancescu carried the work of The Institutes into the hospital setting and into neuro-rehabilitation facilities worldwide. He has been president of the New York State Neurological Society and chairman of the board of the Coma Recovery Association.
At present, Dr. Dimancescu is chairman of the board of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential and president of The International Academy for Child Brain Development. He retired from surgery in 2003 and is a neurosurgical consultant.
Janet Doman has been our director since 1980.
Janet Doman has been the director of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential since 1980. Janet is the daughter of Glenn Doman, the founder of The Institutes. She grew up at The Institutes and was helping brain-injured children by the time she was nine years old. She was directly involved in The Institutes ground-breaking work in early reading. At fourteen, she illustrated one of the first books ever published that was written and designed to be read by two and three-year-old children. She and her team have been creating and designing this unique curriculum ever since. While still in high school, she was asked to document the mobility progress of each child on The Institutes program and make a film archive. Six hundred and fifty children were filmed at every visit – it was the first such archive of this kind of data ever made.
Dr. Raymond Dart , the discoverer of Australopithecus Africanus Darti, and a fellow staff member, encouraged her to study anthropology. She studied physical Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania under Dr. Wilton Krogman at the Krogman Growth and Development Center. He taught her anthropometric measurement which she brought back to The Institutes. She did the first anthropometric measurements of brain-injured children that had ever been done. These careful measurements are still done today on every hurt child. Her life-long love of animals caused her to interrupt her studies at Penn to study zoology for a year at the University of Hull in England.
Janet with Dr. Roselise Wilkinson in the Xingu territory in the Mato Grosso of Brazil Centrale in 1969
In 1969 she had the extraordinary opportunity to travel with The Institutes expeditionary team to the Xingu territory of Brazil central. There, assisted by the government of Brazil, under the direction of Claudio Villas Boas, of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, she helped to do the very first neurological evaluations and anthropometric measurements of the children and adults in the tribes visited.
After graduating from University in 1971 she returned to her work with brain-injured children at The Institutes. Adelle Davis, the world renowned nutritionist and author of the revolutionary book “Let’s Get Well”, had recently joined the staff of The Institutes. Glenn challenged Janet to learn everything she could about nutrition from Adelle and to make sure that Adelle had anything she needed to create the ideal nutritional program for each hurt child. Janet and Adelle spent the next two years doing just that. They formed a life-long friendship. Janet is still deeply involved with all aspects of the nutritional program at The Institutes today where she works closely with Dr. Li Wang and Dr. Richard Rosenbloom.
In 1973 She and her team from The Institutes for Intellectual Excellence were asked to create a full intellectual curricula for the students in the School For Human Development. This school was for brain-injured youngsters from 17 to 30 years who could not succeed in either high school or college because of their neurological problems.
In 1974 she headed a team sent to Japan to study with Shinichi Suzuki and to teach at Yoji Kaihatsu, in Tokyo a revolutionary early development school created by Matsaru Ibuka, one of the Founders of SONY. She created and put in place a highly successful English language program for 2-, 3-, and 4-year-old children to be taught at home by their mothers. In less than a year there was a twelve-month waiting list to enroll in these early development classes for mothers.
On her return to the United States, she expanded the early development program developed in Tokyo to include reading, mathematics, encyclopedic knowledge, music, drawing, and physical development. Janet and her father decided it was time to create a new institute devoted exclusively to teaching the parents of well children.
Janet founded The Evan Thomas Institute in 1975, to honor Evan Welling Thomas, an outstanding public health physician who had given the last ten years of his life to the work of The Institutes. The purpose of this new institute was to teach mothers how to develop their babies intellectually, physically, and socially from birth to six. In 1976 Glenn was focusing on enriching the intellectual growth of brain-injured children by significantly expanding their database. He asked Janet and Susan Aisen to create a program to accomplish this. Over the next year the Encyclopedic Knowledge Program was piloted and developed into a very effective and popular program for both hurt and well children.
In 1978 Janet created a one week course for mothers “How To Multiply Your Child’s Intelligence”. The course attracted not only mothers, but fathers from all over the world who understood the enormous potential of the tiny baby and wanted to be able to learn more and provide an enriched environment at home. That course has been translated into four languages and has traveled around the world with the staff ever since.
Based upon the success of the “How To Multiply Your Child’s Intelligence” Course, Janet and the staff reviewed the lectures being given at that time for parents of brain-injured children and in 1985 created a one week intensive course for the parents of brain-injured children – “What To Do About Your Brain-injured Child”. This course has been translated into six languages and has also traveled the world with the staff ever since.
Janet wih Yuuki and Yoshiki in Tokyo
After working in Japan, Janet led the team of staff that began seeing brain-injured children in Japan and presenting lectures there. Janet has lectured and seen children in England, Ireland, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Singapore, China, Colombia, Australia, Malaysia, Argentina, and Peru.
Over the more than half century Janet has taught thousands of parents and children from all over the world and professionals who have come to The Institutes to learn. She still does so today. “Who in the world could ever be luckier than I am? I spend all day, every day with incredible children, the world’s most dedicated parents, a staff that never gives up, and new challenges every day.”
Today Janet and the staff are expanding the work of The Institutes to offer new books, new materials and new instruction online.
Janet is the co-author of How To Teach Your Baby To Read, How To Teach Your Baby Math, How To Multiply Your Baby’s Intelligence, How Smart Is Your Baby?, and How To Give Your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge. Janet and a team of child brain developmentalist wrote The Pathway to Wellness and The Pathway to Excellence. She authored the children’s book Enough, Inigo, Enough.
In the field of child brain development she earned her Developmentalist Level in 1973, the Teaching Level in 1980, and the Preceptor Level in 1984. She has held the United Steelworkers of America Chair of Child Brain Development since 1987.
For her contributions she has received the Brasilian Gold Medal in 1974, The Statuette of The World Organization For Human Potential in 1980, and The Leonardo da Vinci Award in 1985 from The Institutes.
2019: Janet with Waldemar Nehgme, Director of The Institutes’ new school in Brasilia
Dr. Malkowicz conducts clinical research and medical education at The Institutes, and became our Chief Medical Officer in 2016.
Dr. Denise Malkowicz was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She earned her medical degree from Hahnemann Hospital Medical School, interned at Bryn Mawr Hospital, and performed her residency in neurology at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, where she was chief resident.
Following Residency, she did two years of Fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology and Epileptology at Medical College of Pennsylvania (MCP). She participated in epilepsy surgery and investigational drug studies in clinical trials of anti-epilepsy medications. She was Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology at MCP and a Neurologist and Clinical Neurophysicist and Epileptologist at MCP and Hahnemann Hospitals, now known as Drexel/Hahnemann.
She is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Neurology as well as Clinical Neurophysiology. She has been an important part of the Physiology staff at The Institutes for many years leading up to assuming the leadership of the medical staff.
When her first child was born, Dr. Malkowicz learned of The Institutes programs for well children. She attended the “How To Multiply Your Baby’s Intelligence” Course and The Graduate Course. About teaching her children she said, “Becoming a mother enriched my understanding of pediatrics, and my involvement with The Institutes has enhanced my understanding of the potential for recovery and enrichment after brain injury.”
With her extensive knowledge of neurology and seizures, Dr. Malkowicz has become an invaluable member of the medical staff. She has been involved in clinical research and medical education at The Institutes, and in 2016 she accepted the position of chief medical officer.
Glenn Doman founded The Institutes in 1955. He is the primary lecturer in the course through the use of state-of-the-art video. This allows parents to be nose-to-nose with the founder all week long and learn from the primary author of The Gentle Revolution Series, and the most senior staff member of The Institutes.
Glenn Doman founded The Institutes in 1955. He is the primary lecturer in the course through the use of state-of-the-art video. This allows parents to be nose-to-nose with the founder all week long and learn from the primary author of The Gentle Revolution Series, and the most senior staff member of The Institutes.
Dr. Rosenbloom brings to The Institutes his knowledge and experience in nutritional and botanical medicine from a traditionally trained physician’s perspective.
Dr. Richard Rosenbloom was born in Rochester, New York. After earning doctorates in medicine and nutrition science, he chaired the Department of Nutritional Medicine in a hospital setting.
Two years later he entered the pharmaceutical industry, working for such companies as Asta Medica, Sanwa, and Endo Pharma. He first developed traditional drugs, but later followed his passion of developing nutritional and botanical therapeutics for a variety of disorders, such as leukemia, diabetic neuropathy, herpes, cachexia, and influenza.
Dr. Rosenbloom’s major collaborators have been from The University of London, developing a botanical anti-influenza formula, UMDNJ (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey), and the Howard Hughes Medical Center, developing a natural radio-protectant for the effects of ionizing radiation. Dr. Rosenbloom also developed an effective nutritional treatment for Prader-Willi Syndrome.
Outside of the laboratory and the clinic, he has explored the rainforest of Puerto Rico and the jungles of Curacao for medicinal plants. Dr. Rosenbloom brings to the work of The Institutes his knowledge and experience in botanical medicine and nutritional from a traditionally trained physician’s perspective.
As a member of the medical staff at The Institutes, Dr. Gorman helps to evaluate and treat brain-injured children through the use of Applied Kinesiology.
Dr. Michael Gorman is a licensed Chiropractic physician and board-certified Professional Applied Kinesiologist. A native Philadelphian, he received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from National University of Health Sciences in Lombard, Illinois. He completed his undergraduate study in psychology at Shippensburg University, and in sports medicine at West Chester University. Before attending Chiropractic college, Dr. Gorman worked in physical therapy and sports medicine and was a personal fitness trainer.
Blending the best of both traditional and alternative medical perspectives, Dr. Gorman’s primary diagnostic tool is an advanced specialty in Applied Kinesiology (AK). Through AK, Dr. Gorman treats the whole person by addressing physical, nutritional, and emotional health, as well as addressing other factors that can interfere with health, such as electromagnetic pollution, toxicity. He also evaluates and treats allergies. Dr. Gorman is certified in Neuro-Emotional Technique (NET), which addresses the mind-body connection, and NeuroModulation Technique (NMT). He draws from traditional and holistic experience to design effective treatment for brain-injured children.
As a member of the medical staff at The Institutes, he helps to evaluate and treat brain-injured children through the use of Applied Kinesiology. He also has had a role in the biofeedback program. Dr. Gorman embraces The Institutes approach of educating parents and teaching them to be the primary therapists at home for their children. He and his wife have three children.
Dr. Weisse has introduced new techniques to The Institutes applied kinesiology program, that are specific to the physical problems faced by brain-injured children.
Dr. Carl Weisse was born in Malden, Massachusetts. He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After establishing several successful electronics firms that made innovative products in the medical, professional sound, home entertainment, and theater businesses, he became fascinated with complementary and alternative medicine.
He continued his education, earning a doctor of chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic, where he was the first David D. Palmer chiropractic scholar and graduated with honors.
He has an extensive background in education and administration. He has taught neuroscience at Pennsylvania College of Chiropractic, where he was faculty chairperson, and anatomy and physiology at the Community College of Philadelphia.
Dr. Weisse operates a private practice in downtown Philadelphia. He has developed additions to the model of what makes brain-injured children present the way they do. He has introduced new techniques of bodywork and biofeedback, now used in The Institutes applied kinesiology program, that are specific to the physical problems faced by brain-injured children.
Susan Aisen is the Director of the Institute for the Achievement of Intellectual Excellence, and the Director of the Evan Thomas Institute.
As a graduate student at the University of Michigan, Susan began her studies and training at The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential in 1973. In 1980, she became the Director of the Institute for the Achievement of Intellectual Excellence, and the Director of the Evan Thomas Institute.
She is a principal lecturer in the “How To Multiply Your Child’s Intelligence” course, which has been presented since 1978 to parents the world over. She teaches parents how to enhance the growth and development of the brain through intellectual growth, specifically in reading, mathematics, and encyclopedic knowledge. She also teaches parents how to do an evaluation of their child using The Institutes Developmental Profile.
Ms. Aisen is also a principal lecturer in the “What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child” course. She teaches parents of brain-injured children how to evaluate their children neurologically and how to create an effective program of sensory stimulation to enhance seeing, hearing, and tactility.
Susan is an international lecturer on intellectual growth in children, and has taught parents in England, Ireland, Italy, Brazil, Colombia, Malaysia, Japan, China, Singapore, Puerto Rico, and the United States how to create intellectual excellence in their children.
She served as a consultant to Glenn Doman in the writing of How To Teach Your Baby Math and How To Multiply Your Child’s Intelligence. She is a co-author of the book How To Give Your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge. Susan is a principal lecturer in The Pathway to Wellness, now available online to parents worldwide.
Miki Nakayachi is vice director of The Institute for the Achievement of Intellectual Excellence in Philadelphia and co-director of The Institutes in Japan.
Miki was born and raised in Japan. After graduating from Showa Women’s University, she worked for Sony Corporation. In a special child development project established by Sony’s founder, Masaru Ibuka, Miki created a curriculum for teaching English and music to young children. She also studied piano through Dr. Shinichi Suzuki’s program, learning from Mrs. Shizuko Suzuki, a prominent piano teacher in Talent Education.
In 1974 Miki assisted Janet Doman, the director of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, in Japan. After she had studied English in Great Britain, she helped to teach English to tiny Japanese children.
Miki came to The Institutes in 1975. She began her training in the School for Human Development, where she coached the brain-injured students through their intensive treatment program of crawling, creeping, running, and brachiation. She also taught intellectual and social programs to the students. Later, Miki became vice director of the School for Human Development.
In 1976 Miki created the Japanese language program for the Early Development classes of the Evan Thomas Institute. This became the foundation for teaching other foreign languages. She then helped found the International School of the Evan Thomas Institute and became a principal teacher in the school.
After her son was born in 1983, Miki was a full-time professional mother, putting her energy into his physical, intellectual, and social development when he was young.
Miki is an expert in the intellectual development of children. She has taught thousands of parents how to teach intellectual and social programs to their brain-injured and well children. She also taught parents of blind and deaf and insensate children to see, hear, and feel. She has taught many parents of brain-injured children and babies how to communicate while they are unable to speak. She regularly lectures in the United States and Japan.
She is vice director of The Institute for the Achievement of Intellectual Excellence in Philadelphia and co-director of The Institutes in Japan. Miki has served hundreds of children in the United States, Italy, Japan and England. She continues to be an advocate for brain-injured children from around the world.
Miki is certified in child brain development at the teaching level. She has been awarded the Brazilian Gold Medal of Honor, Sakura Koro Sho of Japan, the Raymundo Veras Medal of Humanity and Science, the Leonardo da Vinci Award, and the Statuette with Pedestal.
Teruki joined The Institutes while he was completing his graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania. He is now the co-director of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential in Japan.
Senior Staff Member of The Institute for the Achievement of Intellectual Excellence
Teruki was born and raised in Japan. He joined The Institutes in September 1982, while he was completing his graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania.
Teruki was educated in Japan and in the United States. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics and did graduate work in business administration at Keio University in Tokyo. He then received a master’s degree in management from Northwestern University. He continued graduate studies at San Francisco State University, where he studied linguistics, and at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked toward a doctorate degree in social system sciences.
He first came to The Institutes in 1979 as a translator for Japanese families on the program, and his interest in The Institutes work grew steadily. Teruki began his training as a staff member in the School for Human Development. Later he joined The Institute for the Achievement of Intellectual Excellence as its clinical coordinator.
Teruki is the co-director of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential in Japan, vice director of the Children’s Center, and director of staff training. He also maintains the qualification of intelligence programming. Teruki has been involved in scientific and medical studies. He is an important link between the researchers and investigators both inside and outside of The Institutes, and has been instrumental in facilitating many new and experimental endeavors in child brain development, functional neurology, and biochemistry. He is a member of the IRB (Internal Review Board) of The Institutes.
As a member of the editorial board of The In-Report, Teruki is responsible for compiling all the victories achieved by the brain-injured children and writes reports about the graduates of The Institutes Home Treatment Program.
Teruki has traveled extensively in Asia, Europe, and American continents for the pursuit of his interest in history, architecture, and fine art. He is certified in child brain development at the teaching level. He has been awarded the Brazilian Gold Medal of Honor, the Translator’s Certificate in Human Development, Sakura Koro Sho, the Raymundo Veras Medal of Humanity and Science, the Leonardo da Vinci Medal, and the Statuette with Pedestal. He is a founding member of the International Academy for Child Brain Development.
Olivia is the director of International Affairs for The Institutes. She travels to Mexico once a year to present the What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child Course.
Olivia was born in Desterro do Melo and grew up in Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brazil. She attended a teaching school in Barbacena and received her teaching diploma in 1975.
Olivia then began to teach in a special school in Barbacena. In 1979 she was invited to Centro de Reabilitação Nossa Senhora da Glória in Rio de Janeiro in order to begin her training in Child Brain Development. After returning to Barbacena, she began to work at the Associação Barbacenense de Assistência aos Excepcionais (A.B.A.E.).
In 1985, she was a member of the team that traveled to Portugal with Dr. José Carlos Veras in order to evaluate brain-injured children there. In the fall of 1987, Olivia began her clinical training at The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential in Philadelphia, where she learned how to perform histories and evaluations and to create individual home treatment programs for brain-injured children.
In 1988 she received her university diploma for teaching at Lavras, M.G., Brazil, and in 1990 she received a diploma from the A.B.A.E for the evaluation of children in Brazil.
Today, Olivia is the director of International Affairs for The Institutes. She travels to Mexico once a year to present the What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child Course. She also travels to Italy twice a year to evaluate and teach the European parents how to do the intellectual programs with their brain-injured children.
When she visits her relatives in Brazil once a year, she spends some time at The Institutes in Barbacena in order to update the staff with the newest information in the treatment of brain-injured children.
Olivia resides in San Francisco, California, with her husband, Dr. Ralph Pelligra, a member of the board of directors of The Institutes. When at home she stays in contact with the families for whom she is the advocate and she contacts families who request the Home Consultation Program.
Olivia has received the Glenn Doman Medal in Brazil. She also received the Brazilian Gold Medal of Honor, the Raymundo Veras Medal for Humanity and Science, and the Statuette with Pedestal.
Kathy is administrator of the International School. She is also a clinical staff member, qualified to take histories, perform evaluations, and teach intelligence programs.
Kathy was born in Bellwood, Pennsylvania, where she grew up and graduated from high school. During these years her mother taught her to play the piano. Following high school, Kathy attended Appalachian Bible College, majoring in piano. She then worked as a secretary for a life insurance company and as a secretary for a printing plant.
In 1973 Kathy married Alan Myers. When their oldest child, Chip, was four years old, she took the How To Multiply Your Child’s Intelligence Course. Kathy became a full-time professional mother to her three children. Eventually they joined the On-Campus Program of the Evan Thomas Institute.
When her youngest child entered the International School, Kathy joined the school staff. She became the music director, teaching music theory, composition, and a choral class, and was director of the Junior Class. She later became vice director of the International School.
Kathy is now the administrator of the International School. In this role, she creates class schedules, organizes the curriculum books, and meets regularly with mothers concerning the home program of each student.
As her children graduated from the International School, Kathy home schooled them throughout high school, at their request. She continued her own education at Montgomery County Community College with courses in pre-calculus, calculus, history, and psychology.
Kathy now uses the experience derived from teaching her own children and the International School students to teach the parents of brain-injured children in the clinic.
In 1998 Kathy began her training as a clinical staff member, and is now qualified to take histories, perform evaluations, and teach intelligence programs.
For her work with children, Kathy has received the Brazilian Gold Medal and the Statuette with Pedestal. In 1998, the entire Myers family was awarded the Leonardo da Vinci Medal.
Elaine Hollanda coordinates correspondence between staff and parents and oversees the enormous E. Lee Archives of patient charts. She also assists at lectures and meetings.
Eliane was born in Curitiba, Brazil. Her education included classes in special education, but it was academic learning only, with no practical application. Her first student was a brain-injured girl, and her mother was among a group of parents who had learned of The Institutes program in Brazil.
The Institutes in Rio de Janeiro was under the direction of Dr. José Carlos Veras, son of Dr. Raymundo Veras. Eliane read the Portuguese translation of What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child by Glenn Doman, and attended a course given by Dr. Veras in Curitiba. After doing the daily program with her young student, she joined The Institutes staff, becoming more involved in the daily on-campus programs with the children.
Twice Glenn Doman came to Brazil, a memorable event for all of the staff. When Janet Doman visited in 1992, she invited Eliane to come to Philadelphia for further training. After six months she returned to Brazil, but decided that her future was at The Institutes in Philadelphia.
Despite the challenge of learning English, Eliane has been at the helm in the clinic, running “the flow” of families that see the staff on their clinic days. In addition she is trained to perform measurements on each child on the Intensive Treatment Program. This includes measuring the head, chest, height, and weight of each child during their visits. This information is compared to anthropometrical statistics, and the children’s individual growth and development is carefully computed and noted in their charts. Her other responsibilities include assisting at lectures and meetings. She coordinates correspondence between staff and parents and oversees the enormous E. Lee Archives of patient charts.
For her work with brain-injured children, Eliane has received the Brazilian Gold Medal of Honor and the Japanese Medal of Sakura Koro Sho.
Leia Reilly is Director of The Institute for the Achievement of Physical Excellence. She also lectures in all of the courses and in the lecture series for parents given by The Institutes.
Leia is from Brazil, and is the niece of Dr. Raymundo Veras, founder of the Brazilian Institutes. Before coming to Philadelphia in 1977, she worked for The Institutes in Brazil for two years. There she used her previous training in speech therapy at the Instituto Brasileiro de Otorrinolaringologia, da Faculdade Nacional do Rio de Janeiro.
After her arrival in Philadelphia she worked in the School for Human Development and rose to the level of vice director of the School. During these months Leia developed, with the staff, the Cortical Organization Program and the Laterality Program.
From June to August of 1977, she helped establish the Brazilian campus of the School for Human Development. In July of 1980 Leia returned to Brazil to assist Dr. José Carlos Veras at The Institutes in Rio de Janeiro. She became responsible for all physical, sensory, and physiological programs. Leia ran the Floor Program, the School for Human Development Program, the Evan Thomas Institute, and the Respiratory Patterning Department. She traveled to Brazilian cities and to Portugal to lecture and teach parents of brain-injured children.
In January 1981, Leia married Robin Reilly. Their son was born in 1982, and their daughter was born in 1983. When her children were young, Leia carried out an early development home program with them.
Leia achieved certification in child brain development at the teaching level in November 1989. In 1992 Leia returned to The Institutes in Philadelphia as an associate director of The Institute for the Achievement of Physical Excellence. In 1997 she became the vice director, and in 2000 she became the director of that Institute.
Leia lectures in all of the courses and in the lecture series for parents given by The Institutes. In addition to Brazil, the United States, and Portugal, Leia has served children in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Italy, Singapore, China and Japan.
For her work with brain-injured children, she received the Brazilian Gold Medal of Honor, the Raymundo Veras Award of Science and Humanities, the Ceremony of Inscription, and the Statuette with Pedestal. She is a founding member of the International Academy for Child Brain Development.
Rumiko Ion Doman is associate director of The Institute for the Achievement of Physical Excellence, serving children in the United States and in Japan.
Rumiko was born in Kagawa-ken, Japan. She attended Saint Maria College in Kyoto, where she studied elementary education, psychology, social welfare, and literature.
Following graduation, Rumiko worked with children from infancy to five years old. She then taught in a private elementary school, where she especially enjoyed teaching Japanese literature, creative writing, and music to children. Before and after school hours she tutored children with reading problems.
Rumiko learned of The Institutes through the experiences of Yoichi Fukunaga, a famous Japanese jockey who was profoundly injured during a horse race and was in a coma for more than a year. By following the programs of The Institutes, he learned to walk, talk, write, and eventually ride a horse. His recovery was widely reported throughout Japan.
Rumiko soon learned that The Institutes could help those children who were failing in school and in life. Rumiko came to Philadelphia in 1987 to begin her training in child brain development. As part of her staff training Rumiko crawled, crept, ran, and completed a full gymnastics program with the brain-injured students of the School for Human Development.
She worked with the students at the Pioneer Institute, where she coached the students in independence, leadership, and problem solving. Eventually she rose to the position of director of the School for Human Development, where she was responsible for the physical, intellectual, and physiological program of all the brain-injured young adults in the school.
Rumiko coached the students in singing and in social programs. She also taught swimming to the students of the Evan Thomas Institute. Rumiko is fully qualified in all aspects of the physical development of brain-injured and well children, and she is the advocate for many children around the world. She is associate director of The Institute for the Achievement of Physical Excellence, serving children in the United States and in Japan. She has lectured and taught the parents of brain-injured children from around the world.
For her work with brain-injured children, Rumiko received the Brazilian Gold Medal of Honor, Sakura Koro Sho, the Raymundo Veras Medal of Humanity and Science, and The Founder’s award of the Statuette with Pedestal. She is certified in child brain development and is a fellow of the International Academy for Child Brain Development.
Rumiko is married to Erik Doman, the oldest grandchild of Glenn and Katie Doman.
Rogelio Marty has a variety of roles, including taking histories and evaluating brain-injured children on the program. He also teaches a wide range of physical programs.
Rogelio was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He graduated from the Catholic University in Argentina with a bachelor’s degree in business administration.
He worked for the Argentine government as a career diplomat. He then left his public service position and obtained a master of management degree from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. In the years that followed, he worked for several corporations, including Exxon (Esso in Argentina).
Rogelio’s parents were professors who founded their own private educational institution. This allowed their sons and daughters to be constantly surrounded by students and children. Years later, this experience drove Rogelio to become a professor at the graduate level on a part-time basis, and he taught in his parents’ institution for many years.
Rogelio learned of The Institutes in 2001 after a friend attended the How To Multiply Your Child’s Intelligence Course in Philadelphia. He immediately fell in love with the children and the programs of The Institutes, and that same year he came to Philadelphia to join The Institutes staff.
His responsibilities include taking histories and evaluating brain-injured children on the program. He also teaches a wide range of physical programs. He is the advocate for many families around the world, and he travels with the staff to Italy twice a year for the revisits of brain-injured children on The Institutes program.
Rogelio and his wife live on campus. When their three children were students in the Evan Thomas Institute, Rogelio was actively involved in his children’s home programs, and in particular enjoys coaching them in running and swimming. He was the co-organizer of both the annual triathlon and swimathon held by The Evan Thomas Institute.
He has received the Brazilian Gold Medal of Honor, and in 2006 he was certified in child brain development at the developmentalist level.
Dr. Vasquez is certified in child brain development at the teaching level and he is a fellow of the Academy for Child Brain Development.
Dr. Ernesto Vasquez was born in the United States and grew up in Mexico. In 1984 he obtained his diploma as a general practitioner from the University of Baja California School of Medicine, in Mexico. He served his internship in 1985 at the Social Security Hospital in Mexicali, Baja California, and was in charge of community clinics of Morelos City, Baja California.
Ernesto first learned about The Institutes in 1982, when his sister Angelica began on the Intensive Treatment Program. Ernesto assisted with her home program and observed Angelica’s progress. He came to The Institutes in September 1986 and joined the staff of the School for Human Development. He later became medical director and then director of the School, coaching the students through every aspect of their physical, intellectual, and social program.
In 1987, he was appointed vice director of the Oxygen Enrichment Program. Now he divides his time between the research area and the Children’s Center, where he teaches physical and respiratory programs. In 1988 and 1989, Ernesto spent time working at Centro de Reabilitação Nossa Senhora da Glória with Dr. José Carlos Veras in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and for Associação Barbacenense in Barbacena, Brazil.
Ernesto helped to present the first Spanish What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child Video Course in Mexico City, and was involved in the preparation, translation, and dubbing in Spanish of the How To Multiply Your Child’s Intelligence Course, also presented in Mexico City. Ernesto has been involved in the translation, preparation, and dubbing in Spanish of the video lecture series for Spanish-speaking families.
In 1992, Ernesto became the vice director of The Institute for the Achievement of Physiological Excellence and the acting director of the same institute in Europe. He has studied and treated brain-injured children in Mexico, the United States, Italy, Japan and Brazil.
In 1993, he married Thaisa Mendes, then a staff member. They have two children who have benefited from The Institutes Early Development Program. From 1995 to 1996, Ernesto returned to work with Dr. Jose Carlos Veras in Brazil and studied and treated brain-injured children in Argentina, Brazil, and Portugal.
He is certified in child brain development at the teaching level and he is a fellow of the Academy for Child Brain Development. For his work with brain-injured children he has received the Brazilian Gold Medal of Honor, the Sakura Koro Sho medal, and the Statuette with Pedestal.
Jennifer Myers Canepa currently teaches nutrition programs to the parents of brain-injured children.
Jennifer was born in Flemington, New Jersey. As a teenager, she volunteered her time to a literary program, teaching illiterate adults how to read.
She attended the University of Virginia, where she received a bachelor’s degree in both psychology and sociology. Following graduation, she decided to continue her studies in education, her real passion, at the University of Pennsylvania, with the intention of receiving a doctorate degree in curriculum development.
In the spring of 1993, Jennifer first heard of the work that Glenn Doman and The Institutes were doing with children. From what she understood Glenn Doman and the staff were teaching children in the most natural way possible.She realized that much of what she had learned was not natural and would not succeed as well as what she saw at The institutes. In 1999, she became a staff candidate at The Institutes.
By the next year she became a staff member. She trained as an historian, evaluator, and programmer. As each of her three children came along she used what she had learned to teach them at home from the day they were born. As a result, she is a highly qualified professional mother. Her children were part of The Early Development program of The Evan Thomas Institute and the International School.
She is also a highly experienced cook from her early days in the catering business so she had a strong interest, not only in cooking, but in providing fresh healthy food for her family. This led her to learn more about food preparation and nutrition. Today she teaches nutrition programs to the parents of hurt and well children at The Institutes.
Dr. Wang brings her experience and knowledge of Eastern and Western medicine to the creation of nutritional programs and pain management for brain-injured children.
Dr. Li Wang was born in China and graduated from the Shanghai Sanatorium Hospital and School of Nursing. At Beijing Hospital, she became the first physical therapy instructor in China. While working and doing research at Ton Ren Hospital, she attended the medical school there. She served as attending physician and her research included ear acupuncture for relief of allergies and pain.
In 1983 she visited The Institutes in Philadelphia. Returning to China, she adapted The Institutes program to create a neurological stimulation program with minimal costs. She had excellent results, and in 1987 she received an award in Beijing City for scientific research in the rehabilitation of severely brain-injured children. That year, the Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China certified her as a physician in physical medicine and rehabilitation.
Dr. Wang joined The Institutes staff in 1989, bringing her experience and knowledge of Eastern and Western medicine to the creation of nutritional programs and pain management for brain-injured children. She maintains two clinics in China, and since 1992 The Institutes programs have helped over 500 brain-injured children there.
In 2006 she was instrumental in producing The Pathway To Wellness in Chinese, and brought members of The Institutes staff to Beijing to speak to parents about child brain development.
Beatriz was born and raised in Mexico City. After receiving a BA in Administration, she worked with various companies. When she became a mother, Beatriz began to learn about childhood development and decided that she wanted to be with her children as much as possible as they grew. She earned certifications to be a teacher so that she could have more time with them.
When her first son was 3 years old, she learned of Colegio Valle De Filadelfia, the school directed by Elisa Guerra in Mexico. Beatriz read the book How To Multiply Your Baby’s Intelligence and became interested in The Institutes early learning program. Impressed with her children’s knowledge, Beatriz applied to teach at Elisa´s school to learn more. She then took The Institutes How To Multiply Your Child’s Intelligence Course.
Beatriz taught English in kindergarten and then in the elementary school. She also carried out the reading program, math program, and the encyclopedic knowledge program with the students in English, and the crawling, creeping and brachiation programs with the youngest children. At home, Beatriz continued the reading program and the music program, including Suzuki violin, with her children.
Beatriz taught for 11 years until Elisa invited her to work for The Institutes. In 2021 she became the registrar for the What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child Course worldwide.
Beatriz was born and raised in Mexico City. After receiving a BA in Administration, she worked with various companies. When she became a mother, Beatriz began to learn about childhood development and decided that she wanted to be with her children as much as possible as they grew. She earned certifications to be a teacher so that she could have more time with them.
When her first son was 3 years old, she learned of Colegio Valle De Filadelfia, the school directed by Elisa Guerra in Mexico. Beatriz read the book How To Multiply Your Baby’s Intelligence and became interested in The Institutes early learning program. Impressed with her children’s knowledge, Beatriz applied to teach at Elisa´s school to learn more. She then took The Institutes How To Multiply Your Baby’s Intelligence Course.
Beatriz taught English in kindergarten and then in the elementary school. She also carried out the reading program, math program, and the encyclopedic knowledge program with the students in English, and the crawling, creeping and brachiation programs with the youngest children. At home, Beatriz continued the reading program and the music program, including Suzuki violin, with her children.
Beatriz taught for 11 years until Elisa invited her to work for The Institutes. In 2021 she became the registrar for the What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child Course worldwide.
Dr. Dimancescu is chairman of the board of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential and president of The International Academy for Child Brain Development.
Dr. Mihai Dimancescu was born in England to Romanian parents. His family lived in Marrakesh, Morocco, for eight years and moved to the United States in 1956. Following graduation from Yale University, he attended Trinity College, Harvard, for a year before studying medicine at the University of Toulouse.
Following his surgical residency and his neurosurgical residency, Dr. Dimancescu established his practice in neurosurgery in New York.
As founder of the International Coma Recovery Institute, Dr. Dimancescu carried the work of The Institutes into the hospital setting and into neuro-rehabilitation facilities worldwide. He has been president of the New York State Neurological Society and chairman of the board of the Coma Recovery Association.
At present, Dr. Dimancescu is chairman of the board of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential and president of The International Academy for Child Brain Development. He retired from surgery in 2003 and is a neurosurgical consultant.
Janet Doman has been our director since 1980.
Janet Doman has been the director of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential since 1980. Janet is the daughter of Glenn Doman, the founder of The Institutes. She grew up at The Institutes and was helping brain-injured children by the time she was nine years old. She was directly involved in The Institutes ground-breaking work in early reading. At fourteen, she illustrated one of the first books ever published that was written and designed to be read by two and three-year-old children. She and her team have been creating and designing this unique curriculum ever since. While still in high school, she was asked to document the mobility progress of each child on The Institutes program and make a film archive. Six hundred and fifty children were filmed at every visit – it was the first such archive of this kind of data ever made.
Dr. Raymond Dart , the discoverer of Australopithecus Africanus Darti, and a fellow staff member, encouraged her to study anthropology. She studied physical Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania under Dr. Wilton Krogman at the Krogman Growth and Development Center. He taught her anthropometric measurement which she brought back to The Institutes. She did the first anthropometric measurements of brain-injured children that had ever been done. These careful measurements are still done today on every hurt child. Her life-long love of animals caused her to interrupt her studies at Penn to study zoology for a year at the University of Hull in England.
Janet with Dr. Roselise Wilkinson in the Xingu territory in the Mato Grosso of Brazil Centrale in 1969
In 1969 she had the extraordinary opportunity to travel with The Institutes expeditionary team to the Xingu territory of Brazil central. There, assisted by the government of Brazil, under the direction of Claudio Villas Boas, of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, she helped to do the very first neurological evaluations and anthropometric measurements of the children and adults in the tribes visited.
After graduating from University in 1971 she returned to her work with brain-injured children at The Institutes. Adelle Davis, the world renowned nutritionist and author of the revolutionary book “Let’s Get Well”, had recently joined the staff of The Institutes. Glenn challenged Janet to learn everything she could about nutrition from Adelle and to make sure that Adelle had anything she needed to create the ideal nutritional program for each hurt child. Janet and Adelle spent the next two years doing just that. They formed a life-long friendship. Janet is still deeply involved with all aspects of the nutritional program at The Institutes today where she works closely with Dr. Li Wang and Dr. Richard Rosenbloom.
In 1973 She and her team from The Institutes for Intellectual Excellence were asked to create a full intellectual curricula for the students in the School For Human Development. This school was for brain-injured youngsters from 17 to 30 years who could not succeed in either high school or college because of their neurological problems.
In 1974 she headed a team sent to Japan to study with Shinichi Suzuki and to teach at Yoji Kaihatsu, in Tokyo a revolutionary early development school created by Matsaru Ibuka, one of the Founders of SONY. She created and put in place a highly successful English language program for 2-, 3-, and 4-year-old children to be taught at home by their mothers. In less than a year there was a twelve-month waiting list to enroll in these early development classes for mothers.
On her return to the United States, she expanded the early development program developed in Tokyo to include reading, mathematics, encyclopedic knowledge, music, drawing, and physical development. Janet and her father decided it was time to create a new institute devoted exclusively to teaching the parents of well children.
Janet founded The Evan Thomas Institute in 1975, to honor Evan Welling Thomas, an outstanding public health physician who had given the last ten years of his life to the work of The Institutes. The purpose of this new institute was to teach mothers how to develop their babies intellectually, physically, and socially from birth to six. In 1976 Glenn was focusing on enriching the intellectual growth of brain-injured children by significantly expanding their database. He asked Janet and Susan Aisen to create a program to accomplish this. Over the next year the Encyclopedic Knowledge Program was piloted and developed into a very effective and popular program for both hurt and well children.
In 1978 Janet created a one week course for mothers “How To Multiply Your Child’s Intelligence”. The course attracted not only mothers, but fathers from all over the world who understood the enormous potential of the tiny baby and wanted to be able to learn more and provide an enriched environment at home. That course has been translated into four languages and has traveled around the world with the staff ever since.
Based upon the success of the “How To Multiply Your Child’s Intelligence” Course, Janet and the staff reviewed the lectures being given at that time for parents of brain-injured children and in 1985 created a one week intensive course for the parents of brain-injured children – “What To Do About Your Brain-injured Child”. This course has been translated into six languages and has also traveled the world with the staff ever since.
Janet wih Yuuki and Yoshiki in Tokyo
After working in Japan, Janet led the team of staff that began seeing brain-injured children in Japan and presenting lectures there. Janet has lectured and seen children in England, Ireland, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Singapore, China, Colombia, Australia, Malaysia, Argentina, and Peru.
Over the more than half century Janet has taught thousands of parents and children from all over the world and professionals who have come to The Institutes to learn. She still does so today. “Who in the world could ever be luckier than I am? I spend all day, every day with incredible children, the world’s most dedicated parents, a staff that never gives up, and new challenges every day.”
Today Janet and the staff are expanding the work of The Institutes to offer new books, new materials and new instruction online.
Janet is the co-author of How To Teach Your Baby To Read, How To Teach Your Baby Math, How To Multiply Your Baby’s Intelligence, How Smart Is Your Baby?, and How To Give Your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge. Janet and a team of child brain developmentalist wrote The Pathway to Wellness and The Pathway to Excellence. She authored the children’s book Enough, Inigo, Enough.
In the field of child brain development she earned her Developmentalist Level in 1973, the Teaching Level in 1980, and the Preceptor Level in 1984. She has held the United Steelworkers of America Chair of Child Brain Development since 1987.
For her contributions she has received the Brasilian Gold Medal in 1974, The Statuette of The World Organization For Human Potential in 1980, and The Leonardo da Vinci Award in 1985 from The Institutes.
2019: Janet with Waldemar Nehgme, Director of The Institutes’ new school in Brasilia
Dr. Malkowicz conducts clinical research and medical education at The Institutes, and became our Chief Medical Officer in 2016.
Dr. Denise Malkowicz was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She earned her medical degree from Hahnemann Hospital Medical School, interned at Bryn Mawr Hospital, and performed her residency in neurology at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, where she was chief resident.
Following Residency, she did two years of Fellowship in Clinical Neurophysiology and Epileptology at Medical College of Pennsylvania (MCP). She participated in epilepsy surgery and investigational drug studies in clinical trials of anti-epilepsy medications. She was Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology at MCP and a Neurologist and Clinical Neurophysicist and Epileptologist at MCP and Hahnemann Hospitals, now known as Drexel/Hahnemann.
She is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in Neurology as well as Clinical Neurophysiology. She has been an important part of the Physiology staff at The Institutes for many years leading up to assuming the leadership of the medical staff.
When her first child was born, Dr. Malkowicz learned of The Institutes programs for well children. She attended the “How To Multiply Your Baby’s Intelligence” Course and The Graduate Course. About teaching her children she said, “Becoming a mother enriched my understanding of pediatrics, and my involvement with The Institutes has enhanced my understanding of the potential for recovery and enrichment after brain injury.”
With her extensive knowledge of neurology and seizures, Dr. Malkowicz has become an invaluable member of the medical staff. She has been involved in clinical research and medical education at The Institutes, and in 2016 she accepted the position of chief medical officer.
Glenn Doman founded The Institutes in 1955. He is the primary lecturer in the course through the use of state-of-the-art video. This allows parents to be nose-to-nose with the founder all week long and learn from the primary author of The Gentle Revolution Series, and the most senior staff member of The Institutes.
Glenn Doman founded The Institutes in 1955. He is the primary lecturer in the course through the use of state-of-the-art video. This allows parents to be nose-to-nose with the founder all week long and learn from the primary author of The Gentle Revolution Series, and the most senior staff member of The Institutes.
Dr. Rosenbloom brings to The Institutes his knowledge and experience in nutritional and botanical medicine from a traditionally trained physician’s perspective.
Dr. Richard Rosenbloom was born in Rochester, New York. After earning doctorates in medicine and nutrition science, he chaired the Department of Nutritional Medicine in a hospital setting.
Two years later he entered the pharmaceutical industry, working for such companies as Asta Medica, Sanwa, and Endo Pharma. He first developed traditional drugs, but later followed his passion of developing nutritional and botanical therapeutics for a variety of disorders, such as leukemia, diabetic neuropathy, herpes, cachexia, and influenza.
Dr. Rosenbloom’s major collaborators have been from The University of London, developing a botanical anti-influenza formula, UMDNJ (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey), and the Howard Hughes Medical Center, developing a natural radio-protectant for the effects of ionizing radiation. Dr. Rosenbloom also developed an effective nutritional treatment for Prader-Willi Syndrome.
Outside of the laboratory and the clinic, he has explored the rainforest of Puerto Rico and the jungles of Curacao for medicinal plants. Dr. Rosenbloom brings to the work of The Institutes his knowledge and experience in botanical medicine and nutritional from a traditionally trained physician’s perspective.
As a member of the medical staff at The Institutes, Dr. Gorman helps to evaluate and treat brain-injured children through the use of Applied Kinesiology.
Dr. Michael Gorman is a licensed Chiropractic physician and board-certified Professional Applied Kinesiologist. A native Philadelphian, he received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from National University of Health Sciences in Lombard, Illinois. He completed his undergraduate study in psychology at Shippensburg University, and in sports medicine at West Chester University. Before attending Chiropractic college, Dr. Gorman worked in physical therapy and sports medicine and was a personal fitness trainer.
Blending the best of both traditional and alternative medical perspectives, Dr. Gorman’s primary diagnostic tool is an advanced specialty in Applied Kinesiology (AK). Through AK, Dr. Gorman treats the whole person by addressing physical, nutritional, and emotional health, as well as addressing other factors that can interfere with health, such as electromagnetic pollution, toxicity. He also evaluates and treats allergies. Dr. Gorman is certified in Neuro-Emotional Technique (NET), which addresses the mind-body connection, and NeuroModulation Technique (NMT). He draws from traditional and holistic experience to design effective treatment for brain-injured children.
As a member of the medical staff at The Institutes, he helps to evaluate and treat brain-injured children through the use of Applied Kinesiology. He also has had a role in the biofeedback program. Dr. Gorman embraces The Institutes approach of educating parents and teaching them to be the primary therapists at home for their children. He and his wife have three children.
Dr. Weisse has introduced new techniques to The Institutes applied kinesiology program, that are specific to the physical problems faced by brain-injured children.
Dr. Carl Weisse was born in Malden, Massachusetts. He received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After establishing several successful electronics firms that made innovative products in the medical, professional sound, home entertainment, and theater businesses, he became fascinated with complementary and alternative medicine.
He continued his education, earning a doctor of chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic, where he was the first David D. Palmer chiropractic scholar and graduated with honors.
He has an extensive background in education and administration. He has taught neuroscience at Pennsylvania College of Chiropractic, where he was faculty chairperson, and anatomy and physiology at the Community College of Philadelphia.
Dr. Weisse operates a private practice in downtown Philadelphia. He has developed additions to the model of what makes brain-injured children present the way they do. He has introduced new techniques of bodywork and biofeedback, now used in The Institutes applied kinesiology program, that are specific to the physical problems faced by brain-injured children.
Susan Aisen is the Director of the Institute for the Achievement of Intellectual Excellence, and the Director of the Evan Thomas Institute.
As a graduate student at the University of Michigan, Susan began her studies and training at The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential in 1973. In 1980, she became the Director of the Institute for the Achievement of Intellectual Excellence, and the Director of the Evan Thomas Institute.
She is a principal lecturer in the “How To Multiply Your Child’s Intelligence” course, which has been presented since 1978 to parents the world over. She teaches parents how to enhance the growth and development of the brain through intellectual growth, specifically in reading, mathematics, and encyclopedic knowledge. She also teaches parents how to do an evaluation of their child using The Institutes Developmental Profile.
Ms. Aisen is also a principal lecturer in the “What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child” course. She teaches parents of brain-injured children how to evaluate their children neurologically and how to create an effective program of sensory stimulation to enhance seeing, hearing, and tactility.
Susan is an international lecturer on intellectual growth in children, and has taught parents in England, Ireland, Italy, Brazil, Colombia, Malaysia, Japan, China, Singapore, Puerto Rico, and the United States how to create intellectual excellence in their children.
She served as a consultant to Glenn Doman in the writing of How To Teach Your Baby Math and How To Multiply Your Child’s Intelligence. She is a co-author of the book How To Give Your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge. Susan is a principal lecturer in The Pathway to Wellness, now available online to parents worldwide.
Miki Nakayachi is vice director of The Institute for the Achievement of Intellectual Excellence in Philadelphia and co-director of The Institutes in Japan.
Miki was born and raised in Japan. After graduating from Showa Women’s University, she worked for Sony Corporation. In a special child development project established by Sony’s founder, Masaru Ibuka, Miki created a curriculum for teaching English and music to young children. She also studied piano through Dr. Shinichi Suzuki’s program, learning from Mrs. Shizuko Suzuki, a prominent piano teacher in Talent Education.
In 1974 Miki assisted Janet Doman, the director of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, in Japan. After she had studied English in Great Britain, she helped to teach English to tiny Japanese children.
Miki came to The Institutes in 1975. She began her training in the School for Human Development, where she coached the brain-injured students through their intensive treatment program of crawling, creeping, running, and brachiation. She also taught intellectual and social programs to the students. Later, Miki became vice director of the School for Human Development.
In 1976 Miki created the Japanese language program for the Early Development classes of the Evan Thomas Institute. This became the foundation for teaching other foreign languages. She then helped found the International School of the Evan Thomas Institute and became a principal teacher in the school.
After her son was born in 1983, Miki was a full-time professional mother, putting her energy into his physical, intellectual, and social development when he was young.
Miki is an expert in the intellectual development of children. She has taught thousands of parents how to teach intellectual and social programs to their brain-injured and well children. She also taught parents of blind and deaf and insensate children to see, hear, and feel. She has taught many parents of brain-injured children and babies how to communicate while they are unable to speak. She regularly lectures in the United States and Japan.
She is vice director of The Institute for the Achievement of Intellectual Excellence in Philadelphia and co-director of The Institutes in Japan. Miki has served hundreds of children in the United States, Italy, Japan and England. She continues to be an advocate for brain-injured children from around the world.
Miki is certified in child brain development at the teaching level. She has been awarded the Brazilian Gold Medal of Honor, Sakura Koro Sho of Japan, the Raymundo Veras Medal of Humanity and Science, the Leonardo da Vinci Award, and the Statuette with Pedestal.
Teruki joined The Institutes while he was completing his graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania. He is now the co-director of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential in Japan.
Senior Staff Member of The Institute for the Achievement of Intellectual Excellence
Teruki was born and raised in Japan. He joined The Institutes in September 1982, while he was completing his graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania.
Teruki was educated in Japan and in the United States. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics and did graduate work in business administration at Keio University in Tokyo. He then received a master’s degree in management from Northwestern University. He continued graduate studies at San Francisco State University, where he studied linguistics, and at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked toward a doctorate degree in social system sciences.
He first came to The Institutes in 1979 as a translator for Japanese families on the program, and his interest in The Institutes work grew steadily. Teruki began his training as a staff member in the School for Human Development. Later he joined The Institute for the Achievement of Intellectual Excellence as its clinical coordinator.
Teruki is the co-director of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential in Japan, vice director of the Children’s Center, and director of staff training. He also maintains the qualification of intelligence programming. Teruki has been involved in scientific and medical studies. He is an important link between the researchers and investigators both inside and outside of The Institutes, and has been instrumental in facilitating many new and experimental endeavors in child brain development, functional neurology, and biochemistry. He is a member of the IRB (Internal Review Board) of The Institutes.
As a member of the editorial board of The In-Report, Teruki is responsible for compiling all the victories achieved by the brain-injured children and writes reports about the graduates of The Institutes Home Treatment Program.
Teruki has traveled extensively in Asia, Europe, and American continents for the pursuit of his interest in history, architecture, and fine art. He is certified in child brain development at the teaching level. He has been awarded the Brazilian Gold Medal of Honor, the Translator’s Certificate in Human Development, Sakura Koro Sho, the Raymundo Veras Medal of Humanity and Science, the Leonardo da Vinci Medal, and the Statuette with Pedestal. He is a founding member of the International Academy for Child Brain Development.
Olivia is the director of International Affairs for The Institutes. She travels to Mexico once a year to present the What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child Course.
Olivia was born in Desterro do Melo and grew up in Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brazil. She attended a teaching school in Barbacena and received her teaching diploma in 1975.
Olivia then began to teach in a special school in Barbacena. In 1979 she was invited to Centro de Reabilitação Nossa Senhora da Glória in Rio de Janeiro in order to begin her training in Child Brain Development. After returning to Barbacena, she began to work at the Associação Barbacenense de Assistência aos Excepcionais (A.B.A.E.).
In 1985, she was a member of the team that traveled to Portugal with Dr. José Carlos Veras in order to evaluate brain-injured children there. In the fall of 1987, Olivia began her clinical training at The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential in Philadelphia, where she learned how to perform histories and evaluations and to create individual home treatment programs for brain-injured children.
In 1988 she received her university diploma for teaching at Lavras, M.G., Brazil, and in 1990 she received a diploma from the A.B.A.E for the evaluation of children in Brazil.
Today, Olivia is the director of International Affairs for The Institutes. She travels to Mexico once a year to present the What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child Course. She also travels to Italy twice a year to evaluate and teach the European parents how to do the intellectual programs with their brain-injured children.
When she visits her relatives in Brazil once a year, she spends some time at The Institutes in Barbacena in order to update the staff with the newest information in the treatment of brain-injured children.
Olivia resides in San Francisco, California, with her husband, Dr. Ralph Pelligra, a member of the board of directors of The Institutes. When at home she stays in contact with the families for whom she is the advocate and she contacts families who request the Home Consultation Program.
Olivia has received the Glenn Doman Medal in Brazil. She also received the Brazilian Gold Medal of Honor, the Raymundo Veras Medal for Humanity and Science, and the Statuette with Pedestal.
Kathy is administrator of the International School. She is also a clinical staff member, qualified to take histories, perform evaluations, and teach intelligence programs.
Kathy was born in Bellwood, Pennsylvania, where she grew up and graduated from high school. During these years her mother taught her to play the piano. Following high school, Kathy attended Appalachian Bible College, majoring in piano. She then worked as a secretary for a life insurance company and as a secretary for a printing plant.
In 1973 Kathy married Alan Myers. When their oldest child, Chip, was four years old, she took the How To Multiply Your Child’s Intelligence Course. Kathy became a full-time professional mother to her three children. Eventually they joined the On-Campus Program of the Evan Thomas Institute.
When her youngest child entered the International School, Kathy joined the school staff. She became the music director, teaching music theory, composition, and a choral class, and was director of the Junior Class. She later became vice director of the International School.
Kathy is now the administrator of the International School. In this role, she creates class schedules, organizes the curriculum books, and meets regularly with mothers concerning the home program of each student.
As her children graduated from the International School, Kathy home schooled them throughout high school, at their request. She continued her own education at Montgomery County Community College with courses in pre-calculus, calculus, history, and psychology.
Kathy now uses the experience derived from teaching her own children and the International School students to teach the parents of brain-injured children in the clinic.
In 1998 Kathy began her training as a clinical staff member, and is now qualified to take histories, perform evaluations, and teach intelligence programs.
For her work with children, Kathy has received the Brazilian Gold Medal and the Statuette with Pedestal. In 1998, the entire Myers family was awarded the Leonardo da Vinci Medal.
Elaine Hollanda coordinates correspondence between staff and parents and oversees the enormous E. Lee Archives of patient charts. She also assists at lectures and meetings.
Eliane was born in Curitiba, Brazil. Her education included classes in special education, but it was academic learning only, with no practical application. Her first student was a brain-injured girl, and her mother was among a group of parents who had learned of The Institutes program in Brazil.
The Institutes in Rio de Janeiro was under the direction of Dr. José Carlos Veras, son of Dr. Raymundo Veras. Eliane read the Portuguese translation of What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child by Glenn Doman, and attended a course given by Dr. Veras in Curitiba. After doing the daily program with her young student, she joined The Institutes staff, becoming more involved in the daily on-campus programs with the children.
Twice Glenn Doman came to Brazil, a memorable event for all of the staff. When Janet Doman visited in 1992, she invited Eliane to come to Philadelphia for further training. After six months she returned to Brazil, but decided that her future was at The Institutes in Philadelphia.
Despite the challenge of learning English, Eliane has been at the helm in the clinic, running “the flow” of families that see the staff on their clinic days. In addition she is trained to perform measurements on each child on the Intensive Treatment Program. This includes measuring the head, chest, height, and weight of each child during their visits. This information is compared to anthropometrical statistics, and the children’s individual growth and development is carefully computed and noted in their charts. Her other responsibilities include assisting at lectures and meetings. She coordinates correspondence between staff and parents and oversees the enormous E. Lee Archives of patient charts.
For her work with brain-injured children, Eliane has received the Brazilian Gold Medal of Honor and the Japanese Medal of Sakura Koro Sho.
Leia Reilly is Director of The Institute for the Achievement of Physical Excellence. She also lectures in all of the courses and in the lecture series for parents given by The Institutes.
Leia is from Brazil, and is the niece of Dr. Raymundo Veras, founder of the Brazilian Institutes. Before coming to Philadelphia in 1977, she worked for The Institutes in Brazil for two years. There she used her previous training in speech therapy at the Instituto Brasileiro de Otorrinolaringologia, da Faculdade Nacional do Rio de Janeiro.
After her arrival in Philadelphia she worked in the School for Human Development and rose to the level of vice director of the School. During these months Leia developed, with the staff, the Cortical Organization Program and the Laterality Program.
From June to August of 1977, she helped establish the Brazilian campus of the School for Human Development. In July of 1980 Leia returned to Brazil to assist Dr. José Carlos Veras at The Institutes in Rio de Janeiro. She became responsible for all physical, sensory, and physiological programs. Leia ran the Floor Program, the School for Human Development Program, the Evan Thomas Institute, and the Respiratory Patterning Department. She traveled to Brazilian cities and to Portugal to lecture and teach parents of brain-injured children.
In January 1981, Leia married Robin Reilly. Their son was born in 1982, and their daughter was born in 1983. When her children were young, Leia carried out an early development home program with them.
Leia achieved certification in child brain development at the teaching level in November 1989. In 1992 Leia returned to The Institutes in Philadelphia as an associate director of The Institute for the Achievement of Physical Excellence. In 1997 she became the vice director, and in 2000 she became the director of that Institute.
Leia lectures in all of the courses and in the lecture series for parents given by The Institutes. In addition to Brazil, the United States, and Portugal, Leia has served children in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Australia, New Zealand, Spain, Italy, Singapore, China and Japan.
For her work with brain-injured children, she received the Brazilian Gold Medal of Honor, the Raymundo Veras Award of Science and Humanities, the Ceremony of Inscription, and the Statuette with Pedestal. She is a founding member of the International Academy for Child Brain Development.
Rumiko Ion Doman is associate director of The Institute for the Achievement of Physical Excellence, serving children in the United States and in Japan.
Rumiko was born in Kagawa-ken, Japan. She attended Saint Maria College in Kyoto, where she studied elementary education, psychology, social welfare, and literature.
Following graduation, Rumiko worked with children from infancy to five years old. She then taught in a private elementary school, where she especially enjoyed teaching Japanese literature, creative writing, and music to children. Before and after school hours she tutored children with reading problems.
Rumiko learned of The Institutes through the experiences of Yoichi Fukunaga, a famous Japanese jockey who was profoundly injured during a horse race and was in a coma for more than a year. By following the programs of The Institutes, he learned to walk, talk, write, and eventually ride a horse. His recovery was widely reported throughout Japan.
Rumiko soon learned that The Institutes could help those children who were failing in school and in life. Rumiko came to Philadelphia in 1987 to begin her training in child brain development. As part of her staff training Rumiko crawled, crept, ran, and completed a full gymnastics program with the brain-injured students of the School for Human Development.
She worked with the students at the Pioneer Institute, where she coached the students in independence, leadership, and problem solving. Eventually she rose to the position of director of the School for Human Development, where she was responsible for the physical, intellectual, and physiological program of all the brain-injured young adults in the school.
Rumiko coached the students in singing and in social programs. She also taught swimming to the students of the Evan Thomas Institute. Rumiko is fully qualified in all aspects of the physical development of brain-injured and well children, and she is the advocate for many children around the world. She is associate director of The Institute for the Achievement of Physical Excellence, serving children in the United States and in Japan. She has lectured and taught the parents of brain-injured children from around the world.
For her work with brain-injured children, Rumiko received the Brazilian Gold Medal of Honor, Sakura Koro Sho, the Raymundo Veras Medal of Humanity and Science, and The Founder’s award of the Statuette with Pedestal. She is certified in child brain development and is a fellow of the International Academy for Child Brain Development.
Rumiko is married to Erik Doman, the oldest grandchild of Glenn and Katie Doman.
Rogelio Marty has a variety of roles, including taking histories and evaluating brain-injured children on the program. He also teaches a wide range of physical programs.
Rogelio was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He graduated from the Catholic University in Argentina with a bachelor’s degree in business administration.
He worked for the Argentine government as a career diplomat. He then left his public service position and obtained a master of management degree from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. In the years that followed, he worked for several corporations, including Exxon (Esso in Argentina).
Rogelio’s parents were professors who founded their own private educational institution. This allowed their sons and daughters to be constantly surrounded by students and children. Years later, this experience drove Rogelio to become a professor at the graduate level on a part-time basis, and he taught in his parents’ institution for many years.
Rogelio learned of The Institutes in 2001 after a friend attended the How To Multiply Your Child’s Intelligence Course in Philadelphia. He immediately fell in love with the children and the programs of The Institutes, and that same year he came to Philadelphia to join The Institutes staff.
His responsibilities include taking histories and evaluating brain-injured children on the program. He also teaches a wide range of physical programs. He is the advocate for many families around the world, and he travels with the staff to Italy twice a year for the revisits of brain-injured children on The Institutes program.
Rogelio and his wife live on campus. When their three children were students in the Evan Thomas Institute, Rogelio was actively involved in his children’s home programs, and in particular enjoys coaching them in running and swimming. He was the co-organizer of both the annual triathlon and swimathon held by The Evan Thomas Institute.
He has received the Brazilian Gold Medal of Honor, and in 2006 he was certified in child brain development at the developmentalist level.
Dr. Vasquez is certified in child brain development at the teaching level and he is a fellow of the Academy for Child Brain Development.
Dr. Ernesto Vasquez was born in the United States and grew up in Mexico. In 1984 he obtained his diploma as a general practitioner from the University of Baja California School of Medicine, in Mexico. He served his internship in 1985 at the Social Security Hospital in Mexicali, Baja California, and was in charge of community clinics of Morelos City, Baja California.
Ernesto first learned about The Institutes in 1982, when his sister Angelica began on the Intensive Treatment Program. Ernesto assisted with her home program and observed Angelica’s progress. He came to The Institutes in September 1986 and joined the staff of the School for Human Development. He later became medical director and then director of the School, coaching the students through every aspect of their physical, intellectual, and social program.
In 1987, he was appointed vice director of the Oxygen Enrichment Program. Now he divides his time between the research area and the Children’s Center, where he teaches physical and respiratory programs. In 1988 and 1989, Ernesto spent time working at Centro de Reabilitação Nossa Senhora da Glória with Dr. José Carlos Veras in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and for Associação Barbacenense in Barbacena, Brazil.
Ernesto helped to present the first Spanish What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child Video Course in Mexico City, and was involved in the preparation, translation, and dubbing in Spanish of the How To Multiply Your Child’s Intelligence Course, also presented in Mexico City. Ernesto has been involved in the translation, preparation, and dubbing in Spanish of the video lecture series for Spanish-speaking families.
In 1992, Ernesto became the vice director of The Institute for the Achievement of Physiological Excellence and the acting director of the same institute in Europe. He has studied and treated brain-injured children in Mexico, the United States, Italy, Japan and Brazil.
In 1993, he married Thaisa Mendes, then a staff member. They have two children who have benefited from The Institutes Early Development Program. From 1995 to 1996, Ernesto returned to work with Dr. Jose Carlos Veras in Brazil and studied and treated brain-injured children in Argentina, Brazil, and Portugal.
He is certified in child brain development at the teaching level and he is a fellow of the Academy for Child Brain Development. For his work with brain-injured children he has received the Brazilian Gold Medal of Honor, the Sakura Koro Sho medal, and the Statuette with Pedestal.
Jennifer Myers Canepa currently teaches nutrition programs to the parents of brain-injured children.
Jennifer was born in Flemington, New Jersey. As a teenager, she volunteered her time to a literary program, teaching illiterate adults how to read.
She attended the University of Virginia, where she received a bachelor’s degree in both psychology and sociology. Following graduation, she decided to continue her studies in education, her real passion, at the University of Pennsylvania, with the intention of receiving a doctorate degree in curriculum development.
In the spring of 1993, Jennifer first heard of the work that Glenn Doman and The Institutes were doing with children. From what she understood Glenn Doman and the staff were teaching children in the most natural way possible.She realized that much of what she had learned was not natural and would not succeed as well as what she saw at The institutes. In 1999, she became a staff candidate at The Institutes.
By the next year she became a staff member. She trained as an historian, evaluator, and programmer. As each of her three children came along she used what she had learned to teach them at home from the day they were born. As a result, she is a highly qualified professional mother. Her children were part of The Early Development program of The Evan Thomas Institute and the International School.
She is also a highly experienced cook from her early days in the catering business so she had a strong interest, not only in cooking, but in providing fresh healthy food for her family. This led her to learn more about food preparation and nutrition. Today she teaches nutrition programs to the parents of hurt and well children at The Institutes.
Dr. Wang brings her experience and knowledge of Eastern and Western medicine to the creation of nutritional programs and pain management for brain-injured children.
Dr. Li Wang was born in China and graduated from the Shanghai Sanatorium Hospital and School of Nursing. At Beijing Hospital, she became the first physical therapy instructor in China. While working and doing research at Ton Ren Hospital, she attended the medical school there. She served as attending physician and her research included ear acupuncture for relief of allergies and pain.
In 1983 she visited The Institutes in Philadelphia. Returning to China, she adapted The Institutes program to create a neurological stimulation program with minimal costs. She had excellent results, and in 1987 she received an award in Beijing City for scientific research in the rehabilitation of severely brain-injured children. That year, the Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China certified her as a physician in physical medicine and rehabilitation.
Dr. Wang joined The Institutes staff in 1989, bringing her experience and knowledge of Eastern and Western medicine to the creation of nutritional programs and pain management for brain-injured children. She maintains two clinics in China, and since 1992 The Institutes programs have helped over 500 brain-injured children there.
In 2006 she was instrumental in producing The Pathway To Wellness in Chinese, and brought members of The Institutes staff to Beijing to speak to parents about child brain development.
Beatriz was born and raised in Mexico City. After receiving a BA in Administration, she worked with various companies. When she became a mother, Beatriz began to learn about childhood development and decided that she wanted to be with her children as much as possible as they grew. She earned certifications to be a teacher so that she could have more time with them.
When her first son was 3 years old, she learned of Colegio Valle De Filadelfia, the school directed by Elisa Guerra in Mexico. Beatriz read the book How To Multiply Your Baby’s Intelligence and became interested in The Institutes early learning program. Impressed with her children’s knowledge, Beatriz applied to teach at Elisa´s school to learn more. She then took The Institutes How To Multiply Your Child’s Intelligence Course.
Beatriz taught English in kindergarten and then in the elementary school. She also carried out the reading program, math program, and the encyclopedic knowledge program with the students in English, and the crawling, creeping and brachiation programs with the youngest children. At home, Beatriz continued the reading program and the music program, including Suzuki violin, with her children.
Beatriz taught for 11 years until Elisa invited her to work for The Institutes. In 2021 she became the registrar for the What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child Course worldwide.
Beatriz was born and raised in Mexico City. After receiving a BA in Administration, she worked with various companies. When she became a mother, Beatriz began to learn about childhood development and decided that she wanted to be with her children as much as possible as they grew. She earned certifications to be a teacher so that she could have more time with them.
When her first son was 3 years old, she learned of Colegio Valle De Filadelfia, the school directed by Elisa Guerra in Mexico. Beatriz read the book How To Multiply Your Baby’s Intelligence and became interested in The Institutes early learning program. Impressed with her children’s knowledge, Beatriz applied to teach at Elisa´s school to learn more. She then took The Institutes How To Multiply Your Baby’s Intelligence Course.
Beatriz taught English in kindergarten and then in the elementary school. She also carried out the reading program, math program, and the encyclopedic knowledge program with the students in English, and the crawling, creeping and brachiation programs with the youngest children. At home, Beatriz continued the reading program and the music program, including Suzuki violin, with her children.
Beatriz taught for 11 years until Elisa invited her to work for The Institutes. In 2021 she became the registrar for the What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child Course worldwide.
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