Bringing D.J. Back Into Our World

Raymond Gehman

Virginian Pilot/Ledger-Star

An intruder broke into a suburban Virginia home and terrorized the family. The family's six-year-old son was left with severe brain damage due to strangulation. The family decided to try a controversial treatment called 'patterning'. It requires 20 volunteers a day to come into the house and manipulate and massage D.J.'s arms and legs in an effort to retrain his brain.

Raymond Gehman, "Bringing D.J. Back Into Our World," in POYi Archive, Item #13452, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/13452 (accessed May 7, 2024).