Word: delacato
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Regimen of Recapitulation. The patterning method was devised in the early 1950s by Physical Therapist Glenn J. Doman and Psychologist Carl Delacato. To apply the novel technique, they organized Philadelphia's Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential. The therapy is based on a highly disputed hypothesis. According to the Doman-Delacato theory, impairment of speech, 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...
Doman and Carl Delacato, a remedial-reading specialist at the Philadelphia Institutes, have also produced a reading kit, which includes word cards, parents' manual and child's book. Parents have spent $400,000 on the kits-at $19.95 each-but a mother could do as well with just the $3.95 Doman book, plus a lettering pen and cardboard to fashion her own cards...