ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the tenets of the Glenn Doman-Carl Delacato idea-system, places these tenets within the context of contemporary scientific thought, and draws the necessary conclusions. The discussion will be wide-ranging within the biological sciences since Delacato, in particular, used such a diversity of material to construct his theory. The problem with many professionals is that too often they do not value information held by the parent and do not sufficiently encourage active parental involvement in the habilitative programme. Any health professional reading the texts immediately realises that the scientific information used to construct the theoretical system has been very carefully selected. Child development presents many fragmented data collections, each rising like the tip of an iceberg supported by an invisible hypothetical substructure, quite liable to melt when exposed to the sun of objective criticism. In 1968 some ex-students of the Institutes formed an organisation called the American Academy for Human Development.
