Hi Carol (and others Summer Tipsters still on board),
another lead into your inquiry might be Doman's Institute for the Achievement
of Human Potential.
I show my student excerpts from a show that is now a quite dated, but that
shows parents in France applying Doman's using early and intensive exposition
to cards of all kinds that are supposed to boost the child's intellectual
development and help them reach a higher degree of intelligence.
Nothing related to crawling. YET.
Now, the astonishing thing is that CRAWLING turns to be the basis for the whole
program: Doman contends that human development sums up the whole of species
development, and since other species used to crawl, it is a natural stage of
development for humans. But he goes further and contends that crawling
balances and helps both sides of the brain to synchronize and coordinate.
(He also uses a horizontal ladder to reproduce the ape's climbing to trees,
again with the idea of helping intellectual functioning.)
Doman runs (or ran) seminars during which he outlines and demonstrates his
principles with the help of his family (his children run the institute, and his
grandchildren do the crawling and give smart answers to difficult questions.
The program is also extensively based on positive reinforcement (the child
receive credit-points for each task they successfully accomplish, and by the
end of the day, they get a reward of some kind or another).
The idea behind the whole program is that the earlier the child is taught to
read, write and calculate (or anything going from music to language or even the
history of arts) the more intelligent he will become. And that mothers are the
best teachers for their child (Doman's daughter says at one point the worst
mother at the worst of her day is still better than any other teacher because
she loves her child...)
From what I could gather (see also Stephen Black's mail), Doman has a
background in physiotherapy and started with neurologically impaired children:
using intense stimulation and patterning, he saw some improvement in the
children he treated, so he thought he would apply the same principles to
normal children.
Another lead might be the supposed link between postural/ body coordination and
intelligence : it would seem that difficulty in coordination and balance is
used by some as a criteria for detecting children with an Asperger's syndrome.
Hope this helps.
Philippe Gervaix
College de Burier
La Tour-de-Peilz
Switzerland
phil.gerv...@bluewin.ch
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