 Norman Doidge, a Canadian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst devoted one of the chapters in his 2008 book "The Brain That Changes Itself" to Barbara Arrowsmith Young and the Arrowsmith Program.In it he recounts Arrowsmith Young's own struggle to overcome her learning disabilities and how she developed the program.The chapter also includes several brief case histories of children and adults who Doidge says were significantly helped by the program, although no quantifiable data is presented.