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...Although I am correctly described in your article about "Patterning" [May 31] as a critic of the Doman and Delacato methods, I would like to clarify several points...
...aware, Doman and Delacato have never claimed to have effective treatment methods for two of their three categories (psychotic and brain-deficient), but only for the brain-injured group. Not every child is put through the full patterning and creeping-crawling early stages...
...Your critical article on the Doman-Delacato program [May 31] brought my dander up. Our poorly coordinated son could only walk up and down stairs holding on for dear life and had balance so poor that he couldn't lift up one foot without falling over. He spent a year each in nursery school and kindergarten, only taking up space and not knowing what was going on around him. He started the Doman-Delacato program, tailored to his needs, the summer after kindergarten. It's true, he may always have some problems, and we are aware of this...
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...
...dissenting medical groups denounce the Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential for "the excessive nature of their undocumented claims." The medical organizations point out that there has been no scientifically sound evidence to support the theory or practice of patterning. Doman and Delacato withdrew from one comprehensive, Government-supported study designed to test their theory. Independent tests conducted by Dr. Melvyn P. Robbins at the University of Chicago failed to substantiate the validity of the treatment...