- One child is almost certain to end up dependent on others, in diapers, unable to speak up or defend himself if he's being abused, for the rest of his life, no matter what you do.
Alas, as I predicted then, no treatment has been found, and he remains dependent and at the mercy of his caretakers.
Sadly, I have since found one treatment that I suspect might help, but the only person I would trust to be able to apply it properly would be me.
If it were just a matter of forwarding the reference to my mother, I would, estrangement or no (I maintain a minimal level of communication for sharing medically necessary information, as you know), but:
1) I don't have a concise explanation, just a book that happens to say somewhere in the middle, "This experimental technique for teaching language that worked for chimps and bonobos had better success with non-verbal low IQ children than other techniques in this one small group that we tried."
2) Implementing the technique requires a level of attention to detail and understanding of the concepts that neither my mother nor the people who've worked with my brother have ever shown any signs of being able to wrap their heads around.
So I'm pretty sure what would happen is that they would do it wrong, *if* they tried it, even if I wrote up a concise step-by-step manual. And even if it were implemented perfectly, there's no guarantee it would work. (It's just that from a methodological standpoint, it makes *so* much sense to me. And it describes the flaws in the traditional method, which is the method that's used with my brothers, and the problems it describes are the same problems I've seen with them! It's frustrating.)
I suppose I could research if there's some professional practicing it, but my impression is that at least when the book was written, there wasn't.
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Alas, as I predicted then, no treatment has been found, and he remains dependent and at the mercy of his caretakers.
Sadly, I have since found one treatment that I suspect might help, but the only person I would trust to be able to apply it properly would be me.
If it were just a matter of forwarding the reference to my mother, I would, estrangement or no (I maintain a minimal level of communication for sharing medically necessary information, as you know), but:
1) I don't have a concise explanation, just a book that happens to say somewhere in the middle, "This experimental technique for teaching language that worked for chimps and bonobos had better success with non-verbal low IQ children than other techniques in this one small group that we tried."
2) Implementing the technique requires a level of attention to detail and understanding of the concepts that neither my mother nor the people who've worked with my brother have ever shown any signs of being able to wrap their heads around.
So I'm pretty sure what would happen is that they would do it wrong, *if* they tried it, even if I wrote up a concise step-by-step manual. And even if it were implemented perfectly, there's no guarantee it would work. (It's just that from a methodological standpoint, it makes *so* much sense to me. And it describes the flaws in the traditional method, which is the method that's used with my brothers, and the problems it describes are the same problems I've seen with them! It's frustrating.)
I suppose I could research if there's some professional practicing it, but my impression is that at least when the book was written, there wasn't.
Meh.