ABSTRACT
Carl Delacato has proposed a detailed theoretical framework of brain development to justify the particular diagnostic and remedial techniques employed by the Institutes. The central and unifying principle underpinning the G. Glenn Doman-Delacato view of brain functioning is that of neurological organisation, described in detail by Le Winn et al. The Domans and Delacato have attempted to establish a link between the development of normal human patterns of movement and the movement patterns of lower animals. The only part of the 'physiologically optimum condition' that is of relevance to the definition is that of the brain. The uniqueness of the human brain is derived from a combination of complexity and size, not from any unique or 'most complete' physiological development. According to the Institutes, the major reason that brains become neurologically disorganised is because the process of ontogenetic recapitulation has been disturbed. Neurological recapitulation embodies the idea that each individuare development from a fertilised ovum 'recapitulates' people evolutionary heritage.
