Treatment involves repeated exercises

By Olympia Meola
Times-Dispatch Staff Writer

The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, celebrating its 50th anniversary, has treated 20,000 children with brain injuries, according to its director, Janet Doman. She said she did not know how many of those children were in Virginia or the Richmond area.

A treatment they employ -- the one used for Zachary Palkovics -- is a tactile stimulation program, she said. The repetition teaches the child how it feels to crawl, or to creep. Patterns of motion are what the brain understands, she said.

"It's a symphony of movement and the coordination of many things," she said. "The brain can't do anything until it feels how it feels."

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