Reviews for The Carolina Curriculum for Preschoolers with Special Neeeds: Assessment Log and Developmental Progress Chart: Second Editon

The average rating for The Carolina Curriculum for Preschoolers with Special Neeeds: Assessment Log and Developmental Progress Chart: Second Editon based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-08-27 00:00:00 Sandra Capezzuto I'm not sure where to begin for this review. I read all of Glenn Doman's other books. I was impressed. I (kind of) started Callie on the programs. She loved them, but I wasn't consistent enough. This book, however,is why he wrote the other books. The research behind this book, is, well, phenomenal in my mind. It is quite literally life changing. Recently we started therapy with a woman who was trained under Glenn Doman. She was trained at his Institute for the Achievement of Human Potential in Philadelphia for her own son was had was told wouldn't be able to do anything. Within a year, he was suspected to be a vegetable. He is now a teenager and doing amazingly well. I don't claim to believe that this book and his techniques are going to "cure" Samantha. I don't think I'm that naive. However, I do believe that we will see miracles. I really do believe that. After only a few weeks, we are already seeing changes, and those, to me, are miraculous. What will she be like after 6 months? I don't know. But the research behind his methods are interesting...and to me, make a lot of sense. In fact, though in the 1960s when things for Doman and his team were beginning to really take off other doctors didn't believe them, a lot of their techniques are widely used today in hospitals, therapies, and even in my own daughter's classroom at school. The people doing the work may not know it was Doman who "founded" these methods, but some of it has become quite mainstream. I'd recommend this book to everyone. It doesn't matter if you have a "special needs," or what Glenn Doman calls brain-injured, child/adult that you are caring for or not. The information is very valuable and easy to read.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-05-21 00:00:00 Gerard Taylor I read this book while on the waiting list to take my developmentally disabled baby to Glenn Doman's Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential. A chiropractor had previously told us to read his Teach Your Baby to Read, which prompted me to contact the Institutes and then apply. We were on the Institutes' Intensive Program for four years, from 1986 to 1990, during which time my immobile son became a walker and made other impressive gains, and I later wrote about the experience in a memoir (published in 2011). For someone who has the driving motivation to find answers for a beloved child's poorly understood problems, Doman's book offers perhaps the first glimmer of hope. His account tells how he and the other founders of the Institutes arrived at their philosophy, and while some of what he says was out of date even when I read it, it all sounds very common-sensical. Given the sad fact that generally no other resources are offering anything approaching hope, the appeal of this sort of thing is undeniable. My view of the Institutes itself is more complicated than my view of this book (for details, please listen to an interview I gave here), but the book deserves its enduring place in the literature.