Some special educators are also
wary of neuroscience because they
associate it (understandably but not
correctly) with the “brain based”
education of the 1960s and 1970s. At
that time, the promoters of the
“Doman-Delacato treatment of
neurologically handicapped children”
(Doman, Spitz, Zucman, Delacato, &
Doman, 1960) said that reading
difficulties were caused by brain
damage that could be reversed with
activities such as crawling, breathing
through masks, and doing somersaults.