Word: methods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Murillo's landscape showing Jacob with Laban's flocks (see color overleaf). As the tale is related in Genesis, Laban, who owned the sheep, told Jacob he would be paid for tending them with any lambs born spotted or speckled, and Jacob's method of inducing speckled progeny was to lay peeled branches before their eyes. The Bible says it worked...
...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...
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...
...Mirrors. Amy Garrett was the first child to be chosen through an intriguing new adoption method. Video tape promises to eliminate much of the potential trauma of adoption procedures while making it far easier for agencies to unite prospective parents and children from different parts of the country. It was Norman W. Paget, 45, executive director of the Erie County Children's Aid Society, who thought of employing video tape in adoption after watching the instant replays used for televised pro-football games...
...likely girl. She proved to be in Wilmington, 390 miles away. By viewing the video tape, the Garretts saw Amy more vividly than they could have through any number of snapshots and verbal descriptions, made the trip south with virtual certainty of success. Paget would like to see his method become a two-way proposition that allows older children up for adoption to get a videotape look at their prospective parents...