| The subject of children with learning disabilities is one to | | | | they learn the skills that are necessary to play the |
| which millions of dollars are invested by distressed | | | | piano. |
| parents every year in both the western and the | | | | Yet, when it comes to reading, we simply force |
| developing worlds. They realize that their children face | | | | children with learning disabilities to read repeatedly. |
| massive difficulties in life if they cannot excel at school, | | | | Doing the same thing incessantly, expecting a different |
| and they are geared up to spend time and cash into | | | | result is the definition of insanity, isn't it? Remedial |
| programs, tuition and added facilitate for their struggling | | | | reading, making them read more and more despite the |
| children. | | | | fact that we are expecting them to phenomenally get |
| Although there is no simple and complete answer to | | | | better, is the linchpin of learning, yet it hardly ever |
| this query, there are hundreds of organizations and | | | | works, and takes a long time to cause even a small |
| individuals who think that they can help, so for the | | | | improvement. |
| distressed and often confused parent, where should | | | | Please don't misread me, I am not criticizing remedial |
| they turn? It all seems too difficult, too high-priced and | | | | teachers. They have far more endurance than I, that's |
| the results are often too ethereal to determine, with | | | | for sure! Nevertheless, in a lot of cases, the chief |
| everybody claiming they have the "top secret | | | | subject with children with learning disabilities is that they |
| component" that will cause the invention the child | | | | are lacking the skills desired for the job: they are |
| needs. | | | | deficient in visual skills! |
| So, as a practitioner working in the area of learning | | | | Behavioral Optometrists have long acknowledged that, |
| disabilities for two decades now, I would like to | | | | if we teach the necessary visual skills, then children |
| proposal a standpoint that may provide some | | | | with learning disabilities get better rapidly in their reading |
| clearness for those distressed parents of children with | | | | and spelling abilities. There's no magic, there's no crazy |
| learning disabilities. | | | | un-scientific theories, there is the straightforward |
| As a Behavioral Optometrist I know that the most | | | | assertion which is the same as that which parents |
| ignored area of learning is vision. I am not simply talking | | | | consent to when they put their children in football, |
| about whether a child can see or not, because clearly | | | | tennis or piano training: if you teach the basic skills, you |
| most children with learning disabilities see equally as | | | | will facilitate the overall deficiencies in reading, writing |
| competently as those who read competently. Vision is | | | | and spelling. |
| more than simply seeing: it is seeing, understanding and | | | | I have personally overseen thousands of children with |
| interpreting their world. It involves all that comes to a | | | | learning disabilities who have improved their learning |
| child through the eye door. It is over 80% of all a child | | | | enormously by training the basic visual skills, such as |
| takes in while learning. | | | | eye movements, focusing, eye coordination, visual |
| So, I reasoned, if we teach the visual skills a child has | | | | memory, sequencing, left-right awareness, fine and |
| to facilitate them improve their interaction with the | | | | gross motor and the like. |
| world, will we see an escalation in their school | | | | This expert training is usually hard to obtain and very |
| accomplishment? The answer is a loud "YES!" | | | | expensive, but now there is a home based, |
| This makes complete sense, doesn't it? If we require | | | | tremendously cheap option obtainable to parents who |
| our child to be a fantastic footballer, we send them to | | | | are struggling with children with learning disabilities. It |
| football practice to teach them the skills of the game. If | | | | may not be the answer for every child, but it is more |
| we require them to be good at tennis, we send them | | | | than probable that your child will be deficient in these |
| to tennis coaching so they learn and teach the correct | | | | areas. Please, don't struggle with your children and their |
| skills. If we require them to play piano, we don't simply | | | | learning disabilities any more, take positive action today |
| sit them in front of the piano making them play over | | | | and increase their learning ability to light speed now! |
| and over again, do we? We have piano lessons, and | | | | |