Word: braine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senator Robert F. Kennedy, '48 was shot and critically wounded in the brain as he left a California primary victory rally in Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel at 3:15 (EDT) this morning...
After four hours of surgery, attending doctors said that they were now "somewhat encouraged" that Kennedy would recover "without brain damage...
Punctured Profile. Doman and Delacato demand strict adherence to the format of their program, insisting that anything less may result in failure. Such time-consuming effort is justified, they claim, since it patterns those functions that the child's brain has somehow failed to develop...
...Patterning" is a rigid physical treatment for children handicapped by brain damage, mental retardation or reading disabilities. It has received widespread publicity, and is now being used to treat 10,000 children in the U.S. and abroad. Some of them appear to have responded to the treatment. But while the parents involved have become ardent disciples, medical men have seriously questioned the theory underlying the method. This month, ten major medical and health organizations* stated categorically that patterning was "without merit" and chided its inventors for claiming cures without documentation...
...vision and manual skills can be caused by the interruption of a child's normal progress from creeping to crawling to walking. Discarding standard evaluation systems and using an elaborate diagnostic scheme of their own, Doman and Delacato classify retarded children in three questionable "profile" groups: 1) truly brain-injured. 2) psychotic, 3) genetically brain-deficient. They treat children in any of these groups who have presumably skipped one or more of the creep-crawl-walk stages by prescribing a compulsory retracing of the process. No matter how old they are, the children are painstakingly retaught to creep, then...