To Whom It May Concern:

As a graduate of Tag Training and in the capacity of chairman of the South African Association of Brain Injured Children the following are my personal views regarding the motivational and educational attributes of TAG as presented by Dave Wyllie.

First some family background. I am a professional airline pilot, my wife a highly respected secretary and airhostess. We have two children. Our son Byron, age six was born severely brain injured.

TAG has without a doubt been a great inspiration in helping not only ourselves but also our children especially Byron to achieve our objectives and to recognize and to practice our divine right of being a thinker.

I have also attended and participated in the junior course for young children and can

only speak highly of the methods and especially end results, including individual personal growth that these children achieve. However I must add that if the understanding parent

who must have attended an adult program does not nurture this school of thought much of the value is lost.

We have been involved with brain-injured children for some five years and have attended courses on the subject as well as received and implemented highly successful stimulation programmesfor Byron from “The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential” in Philadelphia U.S.A.

We are both qualified Human Developmentalists and must say that many of the theories that we have come to recognize through personal experience as being highly beneficial to neurological development are promoted and supported by TAG.

Medically no approach could be more orthodox than this, yet paradoxically, it represents a sharp break with the traditional diagnosis and treatment of these disfunctions.

Caution, due to awareness of ignorance seldom acts as an incentive to progress unless such pertinent knowledge as exists is used.

Today our son, who at seven months was said to be a blind vegetable, now attends pre-primary at a regular school and is maintaining excellent progress.

I would like to conclude saying that new opinions are always suspected and usually opposed without any reason but because they are not already common.

Tom Greenwood
Chairman SAABIC