Glenn Doman
Glenn Doman is the founder of The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential (IAHP) and, together with his children Janet and Douglas, has written and revised several books which are all part of the Gentle Revolution series, aimed at helping parents to discover the vast potential of their child.
The Basics
The program at the IAHP is to raise significantly the intellectual, physical, and social abilities of all children and focuses on several key points;
- Senses - there are five pathways into the brain - seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and touching
- Learning - learning starts even before birth and children learn more in the first 6 years than they do at any other time in life.
- Curiosity - all babies and children have an urge to learn but this can be diminished simply by limiting his experiences.
- Opportunity - parents can increase their child's knowledge by appreciating his ability to learn and encouraging it
Skills
Glenn Doman has pioneered some of the most groundbreaking work to demonstrate how children from birth to age six are far more capable of learning than they have ever been given credit for. More than fifty years working to help parents to discover their child's vast potential has included home courses covering many skills;
- Teach your baby reading
- Teach your baby math
- Teach your baby to be physically superb
- Give your baby encyclopaedic knowledge
- Multiply your baby's intelligence
- Teach your baby to swim
The Reasoning
His fifty years of research and experience in the field of early learning has proven how your child has the ability to learn at an incredible rate up to the age of six years. In his book How to teach your baby math he says, "Before the age of five a child can easily absorb tremendous amounts of information. If the child is younger than four it will be easier and more effective, before three even easier and much more effective, and before two the easiest and most effective of all."
Like many authorities on early learning, Doman agrees that the critical window for enhancing your child's potential is before the age of five, and the same window is widest before the age of two. He also demonstrates the need for certain important rules that you, as the parent, must follow.
- Attitude - both you and your child should be relaxed and in a good mood
- Duration - should be very short and you should stop before your child wants to
- Consistency - sporadic half-hearted teaching will overwhelm you and irritate your child
- Tests - testing is unpleasant and unrewarding
Through his research Doman has found that the more you stimulate your baby's brain cells from birth to the age of six, the more synapses are made between neurons and the more levels of dendrites are formed.
He says, "Never forget that when you are giving a child visual, auditory, and tactile stimulation with increased frequency, intensity, and duration that you are actually physically growing his brain."
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