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<h2>Our Families: Gerard Montocchio</h2>
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<img src="<?php echo $this->site ?>pictures/gerardm/portrait.jpg" class="portrait" />
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Born October 10, 1995 in Vienna, Austria.
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<img src="<?php echo $this->site ?>pictures/gerardm/thumb_GegiDadSwim12.jpg" class="intext-img-right" />
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I was born with a serious heart defect and because of that, my brain was
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starved of oxygen and I suffered a severe, diffuse brain injury. For the
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first four years of my life Mum and Dad tried everything they could to treat
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me, but had little success from the treatment programs available at the
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hospitals in our city, and I didn’t really progress at all.
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I was four when my parents discovered the "<a title='IAHP' href="http://www.iahp.org">Institutes</a>"
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and started doing my <a title='Intensive Treatment Program' href="http://www.iahp.org/hurt/programs/intensive.html">Intensive Treatment
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Program</a>. At this time I was functionally blind, totally deaf, I could only really
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move on my tummy on the floor about one meter at a time, and I couldn’t feel pain or hot and
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cold. I also suffered terribly from digestive problems and eating was
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difficult and keeping my food down was even worse.
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After four years of the Institutes’ Program I was growing neurologically much faster than before
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the program, had learned to read, do some maths, write notes to my parents on an FC Board, get
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around the house
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<img src="<?php echo $this->site ?>pictures/gerardm/thumb_Gegi%20FP.01-14%20July04.jpg" class='intext-img-left' />
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crawling, I could hear and I started feeling much better. At this time we changed
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to <a href="http://www.abrbelgium.com">ABR</a>, not because we were unhappy about the Institutes,
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to the contrary. We all felt concerned about my physical and mobility progress and decided
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that we wanted to do <a href="http://www.abrbelgium.com">ABR</a> from then on.
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Now I am doing an <a title='ABR' href="http://www.abrbelgium.com">ABR</a> Program and many
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significant changes have taken place. I fly to Belgium
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five times a year and we learn new techniques at every visit.
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If you would like to see more about me, my program, my progress so far and my family,
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please look at my <a title='Gerard Montocchio' href="http://www.members.aon.at/gegi">web site</a>.
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<img src="<?php echo $this->site ?>pictures/gerardm/thumb_Gegi%20kruip%202%20-%202-03.jpg" class='intext-img-right' />
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Thank you for reading about me and considering the possibility of becoming a
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member of our Society to help brain-injured people like me.
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</p>
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<h3>Updates for Gerard:</h3> |