Thanks for the warm welcome guys!
How exactly did you use the IAHP program? Did you attend the course at the institutes?
I did not - but my stepsister did with her brain injured child. She hooked me up with lots of books and I followed the 'What To Do About Your Brain-Injured Child' book to a T and also lots from the 'How Smart Is Your Baby?' book. They were truly inspirational and helped us out enormously. I feel that if I didn't have my stepsister as an 'advocate' Evie might not be as well as she is today.
She was born with a skull fracture and a brain bleed plus stroke on the left-side of her brain. At birth the bleed covered the entire left hemisphere. She also had zero Apgars for the first 12.5 minutes. They were about to call the time when she took a breath after the 3rd Epi shot to the heart.
They initially told us she would be a vegetable - but she has proven EVERYONE wrong and I give special kudos to the Institutes for that. She had some initial auditory and visual issues that I was able to resolve with the 'remapping' of neurons. It was the coolest thing to see really.
Nowadays there is NO way to tell that she ever had ANY issues - she is a rambunctious, adventurous, curious little monkey of a three year-old. I revisited my book stash and pulled out my "How to Teach your Baby to Read' - so I am traveling down the avenue now.
It is a joy to revisit the kind and wonderful (as well as intelligent) voices of the Dolman's again through the book. I owe them more than they could ever know!