Tae did not have the easiest start to life. During the pregnancy, there was a threat of miscarriage in the sixth month, but fortunately the baby was born full term. However, at birth Tae’s cry was not immediate, she was blue and began having seizures. Her parents were immediately told that this indicated brain injury and the likelihood that Tae would not develop normally – a label of developmental delay was given. By the time Tae was four, nothing parents were doing was making much difference In the first month, Tae did not move freely, and eventually crawled and crept awkwardly. She did not walk until she was almost two years old, and when she did, her right foot turned in and she walked on the toes of her left foot. When Tae was four years old, her parents were advised to put her on anticonvulsant medication and to begin physical therapy to help her catch up to her peers, but nothing they did helped her to improve. Every day Tae was falling further and further behind Although Tae could say words when she was two years old, she was not able to speak in sentences until she was eight years old. Just before Tae’s ninth birthday, her parents attended the What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child Course. The staff remembers Mr. Uemura as the father who asked a thousand questions during the course week. It was very clear that this family was going to go home and make a diffrence for their little girl. They returned home and began an intensive program that included hundreds of meters of crawling and creeping, learning to read in two languages, and a very good nutritional program. Soon, they scheduled appointment to have their daughter evaluated at The Institutes. Tae was diagnosed with a severe, diffuse, bilateral, cortical and midbrain injury. She had already begun to improve from her hard work on her home treatment program that she accomplished before her first visit. Physically she was running 3 miles and learning gymnastics Her memory, reading, math, and writing, all advanced markedly. She read up to 90 minutes every day. She was running more smoothly. Her visual convergence improved She was able to catch a ball for the first time. She could now tell stories, and the volume of her speech had also increased. She no longer was taking her anti-convulsant medication and she was seizure-free. While Tae continued on The Intensive Treatment Program, she twice traveled from her home in Japan to visit the Evan Thomas Institute International School. The Evan Thomas Institute is a school for well children on The Institutes campus in Philadelphia. Tae did exceptionally well in school and even learned English along the way. She enjoyed the comraderie of learning with other children raised on The Institutes programs. She became an accomplished gymnast, an important part of her program for neurological organization. Returning home, she was inspired to write original stories; she learned to program a computer and she began ballet. While continuing her home treatment program, Tae kept up with her academic studies. Her goal was to study hard and to pass the high-school entrance examinations. Tae graduated from high school , having done especially well in Japanese and English. She then went on to earn her university degree. After starting her career in social welfare, she met and married one of her co-workers. Today, Tae is a mother of two young children. Tae’s proud father now has grandchildren to teach, just as he and Tae’s mother taught her as a little girl, guiding her towards a bright and successful future. They never doubted her potential, they never stop searching for an answer and when they found it, they rolled up their sleeves and got the job done.

George was born full term after a normal pregnancy. He was delivered by C-section after medication failed to begin labor. However, his head was growing too fast and at 3 weeks old he had an ultrasound. This showed a Grade IV bleed in the right hemisphere which could affect vision, movement and speech. He had his first brain surgery at 4 weeks of age. He was fitted with a Rickman’s reservoir on the top of his head. This reduced the hydrocephaly by permitting the removal of excess fluid from his ventricles. George stayed in the hospital and he had the excess fluid removed every other day. After a month, he had a second piece of brain surgery to install a shunt. At 7 months he had his third brain surgery to change the shunt. George’s official diagnoses were hydrocephaly, cerebral palsy, nystagmus, and strabismus. In the first seven months of his life George did nothing. George's parents had read the book “What to Do About Your Brain-Injured Child” but hadn’t been for a visit yet. They saw a physical therapist three times a week. George couldn’t look them in the eye, or pay attention to anything except light up toys. He could move his arms and legs but he could not move forward or backward. After 7 months, George's parents tried harder to get George to do tummy time but to no avail. They did all the things the physical therapist told them to do but George was barely improving. His eyes were constantly moving all over the place because of his nystagmus. He began banging his head fiercely on the ground due to the frustration of not being able to move. George’s future looked grim. After being given his diagnosis, George's parents were shocked, devastated, and then shocked again. They were very well prepared for their pregnancy, they ate organic and took all the right pre-natal things for 12 months before Georges mother conceived. She exercised and did everything we could to have a healthy pregnancy. But, these things can happen to anyone, at any time, no matter how prepared they were. The best thing to do is deal with it. "Having said that, it is not an easy road by any means – it is very hard work. When George was 15 months old, we travelled from Australia to Philadelphia for the first time and attended The What To Do About Your brain-injured Child course. It was the first time, the very FIRST time I had anyone tell me that George is intelligent and his brain can grow by use. It was the first time I had real hope for his future, that maybe he would see the world around him. We also met a Dad there who had a little boy similar to George who had started the intensive program a few months before. He told us of his son’s success and it was very inspirational for us. So we thought we’d try it for 6 months properly. 15 months later we’re still going! We started The Intensive Treatment Program (our first program was the most difficult for us) and in 6 months he began to crawl and to read single words. In another 6 months he could hold the quad position and read simple homemade books (my child with a nystagmus – eyes moving all around the place). In another 6 months, he was creeping on his hands and knees and he could understand everything we said to him. He was reading years above his age level. In 15 months, George has achieved so much. We are exhausted but it’s a wonderful exhausted. A satisfied exhausted! He’s surpassed his peers in intelligence and he’s catching up to them in mobility.It is incredibly difficult when your child’s eyes don’t work, when he can’t look at you, when he can’t see, it is a new level of heartache. These things DO NOT improve when you wait and see. They do not improve when you don’t work at it every single day. Your child has only you, you must step up and do everything possible to correctly stimulate your child because the brain grows by use. My advice to other parents with a child who needs help is start today, read the book, get to the course and put your child on the floor to move. When you teach that “poor hurt boy” to read and do maths, you’ve changed his future and how people look at him."

Jaden had a natural birth at 37 weeks. He appeared normal, and was very quiet as a baby. With our other two older kids, we were busy juggling between home and work, and we didn’t pay much attention to his physical growth and development, assuming time would do its job. It was not until his new pediatrician noticed that he could not roll over or reach for an object in front of him, that he was extensively evaluated by the paediatric neurology team. Initial assessment revealed a Partial Agenesis of Corpus Callosum. At the age of 10 months, Jaden was diagnosed with Global Developmental Delay with central hypotonia. It was devastating when the neurologist told us that there was nothing they could do to improve his condition. Nevertheless, Jaden started his once-a-week physiotherapy and occupational therapy as recommended for about one year, with slight improvement. Meanwhile, we continue to research for alternative treatments. We finally found The Institutes in May 2015, through a four-year-old named Adele Choy, the sister of a child on The Institutes program. The many success stories on The Institutes’ website showed that they had a reliable treatment program with proven records. We immediately signed up for the “What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child” (WTD) course presented in Singapore that same year in July. Jaden was 20 months old then, he still lacked mobility, speech and was prone to the flu. He was sick three weeks out of every month. During the WTD course, we learned that the brain grows by use. When the brain is provided with appropriate stimulation and opportunity, symptoms start to lessen or even disappear. Our initial functional diagnosis was a Severe, Diffuse, Bilateral, Cortical and Midbrain Injury, Jaden’s chronological age was 20.4 months, but his neurological age was only 10 months. We immediately applied the methods we learned in the course once they were back in Malaysia. The results were remarkable. The new diet enhanced his health tremendously. He went from three weeks of sickness a month to only one week of illness in a month. His health was getting better all the time. We also carried out an auditory for months, until there was no more delay in his hearing. We did a tactile program and he overcame his sensitivity towards sand, grass, leaves and furry items. He was getting more alert to the things in his surroundings. In three months he started to crawl, in five months he was cruising and in six months he started creeping! We were excited and attended Lecture Series II and III in the following two years. With the lecture notes and four reference books titled “How To Teach Your Baby To Read”, “Fit Baby, Smart Baby, Your Baby!”, “How To Give Your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge” and “How To Teach Your Baby Math”, Jaden continued to progress happily. With guidance from The Institutes, and supportive friends and family, plus his own hard work and cooperation, we are overjoyed with Jaden’s progression. • From identifying “M” as “McDonald” to reading easily above his age level. • From understanding “eat” and “milk” to following 1 and 2 steps instructions consistently and easily comprehending reading books above his age level. • From immobility to crawling, creeping, walking, and starting to run. • From two words of speech “mum-mum” (eat) and “nen-nen” (milk) to speaking about 50 words. • His vision, auditory and tactile are almost perfect! • His health has improved significantly.