The Viljoen Family

I know I have shared with a number of my friends about this wonderful family that we met a couple of years ago on a trip to The Institutes. This family had just sold everything they had and moved to Philadelphia in the hopes of helping their children in ways they could not be helped in South Africa. These parents were on their first trip to the clinic, and they had brought their oldest daughter for her initial assessment. The thing was, they have four children altogether and three of them are brain injured.

As a general rule, The Institutes will only let you do one intensive treatment program at a time simply because they feel that it just isn't possible for one family to do more than that at a time. So they gave these parents a program for Kyna, and sent them home to begin.

When we saw this family a year later, they -- along with another lady who has come with them -- were then doing three full programs with their children. THREE FULL PROGRAMS! Hannes shared with us that when they were given Kyna's program initially, they went home and, using the Institutes assessment guidelines they were taught in the What To Do About Your Brain Injured Child course, created a program for their two other brain-injured children as well. And you have to understand that while all programs are similar, no two are identical -- especially when you have three different types of brain injury.

Anyway, six months later they brought all three children to the Institutes for Kyna's revisit and insisted on seeing Janet Doman to show her that they were doing a program with all three children, and that it COULD be done. At that point it was decided to give all three a program.

We have a great love and respect for this family. What we do with Noah seems very little in comparison. Check out their story.