Children With Learning Disabilities

The problem of children with learning disabilities is one to which millions of dollars are invested by despairing parents each year in both the western and the developing worlds. They recognize that their children meet massive difficulties in life if they cannot stand out at school, and they are prepared to spend time and currency into programs, tuition and added facilitate for their struggling children.

Whilst there is no stress-free and complete answer to this question, there are hundreds of organizations and individuals who consider that they can help, so for the despairing and often bewildered parent, where should they turn? It all seems too complicated, too expensive and the results are often too intangible to measure, with everyone claiming they have the "secret ingredient" that will cause the break through the child needs.

So, as a practitioner working in the area of learning disabilities for two decades now, I would like to suggestion a point of view that may present some clearness for those despairing parents of children with learning disabilities.

As a Behavioral Optometrist I distinguish that the most ignored area of learning is vision. I am not only talking about whether a child can see or not, because obviously most children with learning disabilities see just as as well as those who read well.
Vision is more than only seeing: it is seeing, understanding and interpreting their world. It involves everything that comes to a child by means of the eye gateway. It is over 80% of everything a child takes in while learning.

So, I reasoned, if we teach the visual skills a child has to facilitate them improve their interface with the world, will we see an escalation in their school performance? The answer is a resounding "YES!"

This makes complete sense, doesn't it? If we want our child to be a great footballer, we send them to football practice to teach them the skills of the game. If we want them to be good at tennis, we send them to tennis coaching so they learn and teach the appropriate skills. If we want them to play piano, we don't only sit them in front of the piano making them play repeatedly, do we? We have piano lessons, and they learn the skills that are required to play the piano.

Yet, when it comes to reading, we only force children with learning disabilities to read over and over again. Doing the same thing constantly, expecting a different result is the definition of madness, isn't it? Remedial reading, making them read more and more while expecting them to phenomenally get better, is the linchpin of learning, yet it infrequently works, and takes a lengthy time to cause even a small improvement.

Please don't misunderstand me, I am not criticizing remedial teachers. They have far more patience than I, that's for sure!
Nonetheless, in many cases, the most important problem with children with learning disabilities is that they are deficient in the skills required for the job: they are wanting in visual skills!

Behavioral Optometrists have long known that, if we teach the required visual skills, then children with learning disabilities progress swiftly in their reading and spelling abilities.

There's no magic, there's no outrageous non-scientific theories, there is the simple hypothesis which is the same as that which parents assent to when they put their children in football, tennis or piano training: if you teach the essential skills, you will facilitate the overall deficiencies in reading, writing and spelling.

I have personally overseen thousands of children with learning disabilities who have improved their learning enormously by training the basic visual skills, such as eye movements, focussing, eye coordination, visual memory, sequencing, left-right awareness, fine and gross motor and the like.

This focused training is usually hard to obtain and very expensive, but now there is a home based, enormously cheap option accessible to parents who are struggling with children with learning disabilities. It may not be the answer for every child, but it is more than probable that your child will be wanting in these areas. Please, don't struggle with your children and their learning disabilities any more, take definitive action today and escalate their learning ability to lightspeed now!

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