Comments on: How Traditional Dyslexia Treatments Fail http://www.learningbreakthrough.com/blog/how-traditional-dyslexia-treatments-fail/ Learning Breakthrough's WordPress weblog Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:28:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Heather Collins http://www.learningbreakthrough.com/blog/how-traditional-dyslexia-treatments-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-97 Heather Collins Mon, 20 Dec 2010 03:47:51 +0000 http://www.learningbreakthrough.com/blog/?p=350#comment-97 Very early in my many years assessing and tutoring children and adults with dyslexia I came to the conclusion that dyslexia is a learning style and needs to be catered to in any school situation in the same way as other learning styles. Dyslexia is a learning style for life and should not be viewed as a disability. The disability is caused by systems which do not recognise differences in processing and therefore do not supply adequate resources or suitable resources to cater to those with dyslexia. Surely in this day and age of substancial technology we can accept that a unique learning style does not have to be put in the too hard basket. The tremendous relief felt by people with dyslexia when you present to them how their learning style works and what they should do to reach their full potential is amazing. We must stop disabling these people.<br>Heather Collins<br>Create-Ed QLD Australia. Very early in my many years assessing and tutoring children and adults with dyslexia I came to the conclusion that dyslexia is a learning style and needs to be catered to in any school situation in the same way as other learning styles. Dyslexia is a learning style for life and should not be viewed as a disability. The disability is caused by systems which do not recognise differences in processing and therefore do not supply adequate resources or suitable resources to cater to those with dyslexia. Surely in this day and age of substancial technology we can accept that a unique learning style does not have to be put in the too hard basket. The tremendous relief felt by people with dyslexia when you present to them how their learning style works and what they should do to reach their full potential is amazing. We must stop disabling these people.
Heather Collins
Create-Ed QLD Australia.

]]> By: John Hayes http://www.learningbreakthrough.com/blog/how-traditional-dyslexia-treatments-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-7 John Hayes Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:43:45 +0000 http://www.learningbreakthrough.com/blog/?p=350#comment-7 That many dyslexia interventions are based on the concept that dyslexic have difficulties in learning phonics or have difficulty seeing text while ignoring many of the processing difficulties associated with dyslexia is true. But then again almost any generalized statement about dyslexia is likely to be only appropriate for some dyslexics.<br><br>What bothers me as much anything is that there are techniques which address almost all the individual problems common to dyslexia and could be put together for the individual dyslexic but for some reason no one seems to want to offer that particular path. Instead, programs are developed to address common problems of dyslexia and sold as being the answer for all dyslexics.<br><br>My niche is visual dyslexia which is having problems seeing the text. Visual dyslexia is only a problem for a minority of dyslexics. Luckily most visual dyslexics can describe their specific problems in seeing text and being able to describe their visual problems as a criteria can be self diagnosed as visual dyslexics.<br><br>Most of the MRI studies that have investigated vision and dyslexia end up grouping difficulties seeing text with difficulties processing the visual aspects of text. They are two different things and difficult to separate by MRI studies and it is hard to explain the difference in an easily understandable way.<br><br>The easiest way to understand the difference between difficulties seeing the text and processing of visual aspects of text is to first determine if the dyslexics sees text in a clear, uniform, and stable way. Seeing text in motion or in an incomplete manner are the most common visual dyslexia problems. These are visual and not processing problems and can be removed with optical filters so that the text does not move and is complete.<br><br>More information about visual dyslexia can be found at website: dyslexiaglasses.com [solicitation link removed]. That many dyslexia interventions are based on the concept that dyslexic have difficulties in learning phonics or have difficulty seeing text while ignoring many of the processing difficulties associated with dyslexia is true. But then again almost any generalized statement about dyslexia is likely to be only appropriate for some dyslexics.

What bothers me as much anything is that there are techniques which address almost all the individual problems common to dyslexia and could be put together for the individual dyslexic but for some reason no one seems to want to offer that particular path. Instead, programs are developed to address common problems of dyslexia and sold as being the answer for all dyslexics.

My niche is visual dyslexia which is having problems seeing the text. Visual dyslexia is only a problem for a minority of dyslexics. Luckily most visual dyslexics can describe their specific problems in seeing text and being able to describe their visual problems as a criteria can be self diagnosed as visual dyslexics.

Most of the MRI studies that have investigated vision and dyslexia end up grouping difficulties seeing text with difficulties processing the visual aspects of text. They are two different things and difficult to separate by MRI studies and it is hard to explain the difference in an easily understandable way.

The easiest way to understand the difference between difficulties seeing the text and processing of visual aspects of text is to first determine if the dyslexics sees text in a clear, uniform, and stable way. Seeing text in motion or in an incomplete manner are the most common visual dyslexia problems. These are visual and not processing problems and can be removed with optical filters so that the text does not move and is complete.

More information about visual dyslexia can be found at website: dyslexiaglasses.com [solicitation link removed].

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