| ing learning disabilities, be they language based learning | | | | of helping the learning disabilities. Across the world, |
| disabilities or visually based learning difficulties, can be | | | | there seems to be an excess of diagnosing of |
| a difficult and complex procedure, and it seems there | | | | learning disabilities, but not a lot of valid treatment |
| are as a lot of differing opinions as there are differing | | | | alternatives, so many parents of the children who |
| experts when it comes to diagnosing learning | | | | experts are diagnosing with learning disabilities are |
| disabilities or dyslexia. | | | | simply given advice like, âgive them one |
| Part of the subject lies in the reality that learning | | | | instruction at a time,â or âsit them |
| disabilities are often not caused by one solitary | | | | at the front of the class.â Yes, these |
| question but by a variety of problems, and thus | | | | recommendations may help, but language based |
| diagnosing learning disabilities becomes a | | | | learning problems regularly require much greater |
| multi-faceted, multi disciplined job. | | | | intervention than a mere suggestion. |
| Diagnosing learning disabilities early on in a child's life | | | | As a Behavioral Optometrist, I refer language based |
| can have a enormous effect on their overall journey | | | | learning disabilities to those who treat them best, but |
| through school and even life. Sure, numerous people | | | | I generally find myself diagnosing vision based learning |
| with undiagnosed learning disabilities have done very | | | | disabilities. The great thing about this is that there is |
| well in life, most famously men like Albert Einstein, | | | | something we can actually do to help these children. |
| Winston Churchill, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas | | | | Diagnosing learning disabilities is one thing, be they |
| Edison, but even magnificent artists like Sylvester | | | | visual or language based learning disabilities, but |
| Stallone, Cher, Tom Cruise, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin | | | | supplying successful treatment is often where things |
| Williams, Lindsay Wagner, Suzanne Somers, Henry | | | | break down, and that is what has encouraged me to |
| Winkler, John Lennon, Beethoven, Mozart, Dustin | | | | pursue the innovative method that I have. |
| Hoffman, Danny Glover and Steve McQueen all had a | | | | Vision therapy can impart simple, targeted, successful |
| learning disabilities. | | | | exercises and activities that children with learning |
| Diagnosing learning disabilities can be a simpler process | | | | disabilities can do at home. Now for the first time this |
| if you bear in mind the parts, rather than the sum of | | | | is obtainable worldwide using the internet, in a very |
| the whole. Focusing on diagnosing particular areas of | | | | comparable way to what I can present my own |
| learning disabilities may hold the answer for a | | | | patients in my own practice. These tried and genuine |
| majority of learning disabilities children, and this | | | | techniques go beyond only diagnosing learning |
| likewise tends to offer us scope to treat the learning | | | | disabilities, they present a fun and effective way of |
| disabilities. Thus for language based learning disabilities, | | | | treating learning disabilities. The instructions are |
| we can follow the suitable treatment using, for | | | | written in a straightforward language, so parents can |
| example, speech therapy, whereas for visually based | | | | easily understand and apply these ideas for their |
| learning problems we can use vision therapy to pick | | | | children with learning disabilities. |
| up the child's reading, writing and spelling performance. | | | | In the contemporary world, it is no longer enough to |
| One of the major difficulties with diagnosing learning | | | | simply be diagnosing learning disabilities, we want to |
| disabilities is that very few of the practitioners who | | | | be treating them in an efficient and low cost way. |
| are diagnosing can offer a tangible, constructive way | | | | |