Janet Doman, Director

JANET DOMAN has been the director of The Institutes since 1980. She grew up at The Institutes, founded by her father, and was pitching in to help brain-injured children by the time she was nine years old.

After completing studies in zoology at the University of Hull in England and physical anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, Janet devoted herself to teaching The Institutes early reading programs to parents of brain-injured children. She did the first anthropometric measurements of brain-injured children on The Institutes program. Under the direction of Adelle Davis, Janet initiated the first nutritional programs at The Institutes.

In 1974 she headed a team sent to teach at the Early Development Association in Tokyo. After two successful years she returned to the United States and helped to create the Evan Thomas Institute, which is devoted to teaching mothers of well children how to develop their tiny children intellectually, physically and socially.

Janet and her father have updated and revised his international best-selling books How To Teach Your Baby to Read, How To Teach Your Baby Math and How To Multiply Your Baby's Intelligence. She co-authored How To Give Your Baby Encyclopedic Knowledge and wrote the children's book Enough, Inigo, Enough.

Janet spends most of her day teaching the parents of brain-injured and well children how to discover their children’s vast potential and their own potential as teachers.