Yuuki Nakayachi

YUUKI began the Early Development Program at birth, with his mother carrying out the newborn sensory program and the vestibular program at home.

He was a large baby who quickly outgrew the crawling track and was placed on the floor to crawl most of the day. He learned to brachiate easily.

Yuuki's early years were spent in a trilingual environment, with his mother speaking Japanese, her helpers speaking Spanish and later Italian, and everyone else around him speaking English.

Yuuki received an excellent intellectual program that included Bit of Intelligence cards and many reading words and homemade books (in three languages). He had seen over 300 homemade book before he began to read commercial books independently at the age of three years. He has since been an avid reader and a connoisseur of words, often browsing through dictionaries and encyclopedia for pleasure. He later studied and performed in a number of Shakespearean productions, allowing him to implement his fine vocabulary.

Yuuki has had frequent opportunities to travel with his mother, a staff member of The Institutes, including month-long trips to Italy and Japan. In both countries he has attended school in order to become more adept in each of the languages.

Because of his fluency in Japanese, Yuuki has often been placed in the role of teacher and translator. He has assisted with Japanese exchange students in the International School, with teaching Japanese classes, and with Japanese families who need translation with the programs for their brain-injured children.

After graduating from the International School, Yuuki attended Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia. His involvement with the choir and chorus took him on a two-week singing tour of Scandinavia. He continued to play the piano and was involved in theater and a peer-mentoring program for younger students. Yuuki has also worked with local community service groups, including Habitat for Humanity and the Philadelphia Book Bank. For his independent study project, he was an English teaching assistant at a Friends school in Tokyo.

Yuuki is attending the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He plans to major in computer science and business, but acknowledges that his interests in history and philosophy may sidetrack him from his technological inclinations.