The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential is a not-for-profit educational organization in Philadelphia founded by Glenn Doman in 1955 that offers programs based on child brain development to speed the growth of brain-injured children as well as enhance the growth of well children around the world. Rather than an in-patient approach, The Institutes work with the parents to provide a home treatment program. The Institutes has charted a Development Profile which delineates the stages of child brain development.. Treatment of brain-injured and well children involves taking each child through these stages of normal development in their normal order with the greatest possible speed.
The Institutes promotes the term "brain-injured" to include traumatic brain injuries as well as what they refer to as "symptoms" such as cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism, Down Syndrome, learning problems, dyslexic, attention deficit disorder, and many others. After diagnosing the location, degree and extent of the injury, treatment is focused on the brain, not the symptoms.
Methods pioneered by The Institutes:
Publications include:
Doman, Glenn. (1994). What to Do About Your Brain-Injured Child. Avery Publishing Group.
Doman, Glenn and Doman, Janet. (1990). How to Teach Your Baby to Read. Avery Publishing Group.
Doman, Glenn and Doman, Janet. (1994). How to Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence. Better Baby Press.
The IN-REPORT, a quarterly journal of The Institutes.
Contact Information:
The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential
8801 Stenton Avenue
Wyndmoor, PA 19038 USA
Phone: (215) 233-2050
Fax: (215) 233-9312
eMail: institutes@iahp.org
Website: www.iahp.org
The Better Baby Store: www.iahp.org/bookstoreInstitutes also in Brazil, Italy, Japan and Mexico.
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