A Solution To The Riddle Dyslexia

Author : H.N. Levinson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461397748

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A Solution to the Riddle Dyslexia by H.N. Levinson Pdf

Dyslexia was first described by two English physicians, Kerr and Morgan, in 1896. Interestingly, the structural cortical hypothesis initially proposed by Morgan is still held in wide esteem, albeit in slightly modified forms. Despite 80 years of escalating research efforts and mounds of correspond ing statistics, there continues to exist a perplexing diagnostic-therapeutic medical void and riddle in which dyslexics can neither be scientifically distinguished from other slow learners nor medically treated; and patho gnomonic clinical signs remain as elusive as a suitable neurophysiologic conceptualization. This book is the outcome of a IS-year-Iong search for a solution to the riddle characterizing dyslexia. All of my initial attempts at re-exploring the safe old (cortical, psychogenic, etc.) dyslexic paths and ideas led nowhere. Something new was needed. Children and adults were suffering. Educators and parents were bewildered. Answers were needed. The government man dated equal education for the learning disabled. Clinicians were waiting. And traditionalists remained fixated to the theoretical past and blind to the clinical dyslexic reality.

Author : Joanna Nijakowska
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847694003

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Dyslexia in the Foreign Language Classroom by Joanna Nijakowska Pdf

This book addresses specific learning difficulties in reading and spelling – developmental dyslexia. Set in the cross-linguistic context, it presents issues surrounding dyslexia from the perspective of a foreign language teacher. It is intended to serve as a reference book for those involved in foreign language teaching, including experienced in-service teachers and novice teachers, as well as teacher trainers and trainees. It offers an up-to-date and reader-friendly study of the mechanisms of dyslexia and an overview of the current research on the disorder, in theoretical and practical terms. Its aim is to help teachers tackle one of the many challenges they face in the modern classroom: the organization of an effective foreign language teaching process for students with dyslexia.

Author : Mr Peter D Pumfrey,Peter Pumfrey,Rea Reason
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136122842

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Specific Learning Difficulties (Dyslexia) by Mr Peter D Pumfrey,Peter Pumfrey,Rea Reason Pdf

Drawing on the work of eleven experienced educational psychologists, this book presents a variety of approaches to prevention, identification and intervention and makes practical recommendations for future progress.

Author : Harold N. Levinson, MD
Publisher : Springer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030162085

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Feeling Smarter and Smarter by Harold N. Levinson, MD Pdf

In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Harold Levinson, a renowned psychiatrist and clinical researcher, provides his long-awaited follow-up work about truly understanding and successfully treating children and adults with many and diverse dyslexia-related disorders such as those found on the cover. This fascinating, life-changing title is primarily about helping children who suffer from varied combinations and severities of previously unexplained inner-ear-determined symptoms resulting in difficulties with: reading, writing, spelling, math, memory, speech, sense of direction and time grammar, concentration/activity-level, balance and coordination headaches, nausea, dizziness, ringing ears, and motion-sickness frustration levels and feeling dumb, ugly, klutzy, phobic, and depressed impulsivity, cutting class, dropping out of school, and substance abuse bullying and being bullied as well as anger and social interactions later becoming emotionally traumatized and scarred dysfunctional adults Feeling Smarter and Smarter is thus also about and for the millions of frus-trated and failing adults who are often overwhelmed by similar and even more complicated symptoms—as well as for their dedicated healers. Having laid the initial foundations for his many current insights in an earlier bestseller, Smart But Feeling Dumb, Dr. Levinson now presents a compelling range of enlightening new cases and data as well as a large number of highly original discoveries—such as his challenging illumination that all dyslexia-related manifestations are primarily inner-ear or cerebellar-vestibular—not cerebrally—determined and so do not impair IQ, and an “ingeniously simple” explanatory theory of symptom formation. Most important, all the dyslexia/inner-ear based impairments and their symptoms were discovered by Dr. Levinson to respond rapidly and often “mi-raculously” in 75 to 85 percent of cases when treated with simple and safe inner-ear enhancing medications—thus enabling bright but dumb-feeling children and adults to feel... smarter and smarter.

Author : Sally Goddard Blythe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781119964148

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Attention, Balance and Coordination by Sally Goddard Blythe Pdf

Attention, Balance and Coordination is the most up-to-date handbook for professionals involved in education and child development, providing a new understanding of the source of specific behavioural problems. Written by a respected author of acclaimed titles in this field Explains why early reflexes are important, their functions in development and their effects on learning, behaviour and beyond - also covers adult neurological dysfunctions anxiety and agoraphobia Builds on an ABC of Attention, Balance and Coordination to create a unique look across specific learning difficulties, linked by common motor skills challenges resulting from neuro-developmental deficiencies Includes the INPP Developmental Screening Questionnaire together with guidance on how to use and interpret it

Author : Mirosław Pawlak
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783642208508

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New Perspectives on Individual Differences in Language Learning and Teaching by Mirosław Pawlak Pdf

The volume constitutes an attempt to capture the intricate relationship between individual learner differences and other variables which are of interest to theorists, researchers and practitioners representing such diverse branches of applied linguistics as psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics or language teaching methodology. It brings together contributions by Polish and international authors, including leading experts in the field, touching upon changing perspectives on individual variation, cognitive, affective and social variables, learning deficits as well as their impact on learning and teaching. It offers a multifaceted perspective on these problems and shows how theory and research can be translated into classroom practice.

Author : Cecil R. Reynolds,Elaine Fletcher-Janzen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781489968074

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Handbook of Clinical Child Neuropsychology by Cecil R. Reynolds,Elaine Fletcher-Janzen Pdf

The past decade has brought important advances in our understanding of the brain, particularly its influence on the behavior, emotions, and personality of children and adolescents. In the tradition of its predecessors, the third edition of the Handbook of Clinical Child Neuropsychology enhances this understanding by emphasizing current best practice, up-to-date science, and emerging theoretical trends for a comprehensive review of the field. Along with the Handbook’s impressive coverage of normal development, pathology, and professional issues, brand-new chapters highlight critical topics in assessment, diagnostic, and treatment, including, The role and prevalence of brain dysfunction in ADHD, conduct disorder, the autistic spectrum, and other childhood disorders; The neuropsychology of learning disabilities; Assessment of Spanish-speaking children and youth; Using the PASS (planning, attention, simultaneous, successive) theory in neurological assessment; Forensic child neuropsychology; Interventions for pediatric coma. With singular range, timeliness, and clarity, the newly updated Handbook of Clinical Child Neuropsychology reflects and addresses the ongoing concerns of practitioners as diverse as neuropsychologists, neurologists, clinical psychologists, pediatricians, and physical and speech-language therapists.

Author : Nirbhay N. Singh,Ivan L. Beale
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 627 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461391333

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Learning Disabilities by Nirbhay N. Singh,Ivan L. Beale Pdf

It is important to reaffirm the reality of the learning disabilities (LD) phenomenon as a condition that imposes genuine constraints on a student's ability to function, and not as some chimerical entity defined by an ever-changing political situation. Perceptual, memory, attention, linguistic, social, cognitive and neuropsychological factors are an integral part of LD. By mapping out in great detail and with much new data the acquired knowledge on learning disabilities, both empirical and theoretical, this book unravels many mysteries. This book is a landmark in learning disabilities studies, and it lays down solid foundations for future research and practical intervention in the field.

Author : Kenneth Lane
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781040143780

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Developing Ocular Motor and Visual Perceptual Skills by Kenneth Lane Pdf

With over 20 years of experience, Dr. Kenneth A. Lane has designed Developing Ocular Motor and Visual Perceptual Skills: An Activity Workbook to help occupational therapists, optometrists, and other professionals develop the ocular motor and visual perceptual skills of learning disabled children. To establish a framework for understanding, each chapter begins with the scientific theories used to develop the activity forms. Insightful suggestions are included on how to solidify the program's success. The easy-to-follow activity forms are then presented, along with numerous illustrations that help develop ocular motor and visual perceptual skills. The forms are divided into as many as five levels of difficulty so both children and teenagers can benefit from each activity. Developing Ocular Motor and Visual Perceptual Skills contains daily lesson plans and practical tips on how to successfully start an activities program. Other helpful features include a glossary of terms and a reference list of individuals and organizations that work with learning disabled children to develop these skills. The first of its kind, Developing Ocular Motor and Visual Perceptual Skills utilizes a learning approach by linking the theories with the remediation activities to help learning disabled children improve their perceptual and fine motor skills. All professionals looking to assess and enhance a variety of fine motor and visual perception deficiencies will welcome this workbook into their practices. Topics include: Complexity of reading Ocular motor Gross motor Visual-motor perception Visual memory Laterality Reversals

Author : Anne Marshall Huston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Education
ISBN : 0819182494

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Understanding Dyslexia by Anne Marshall Huston Pdf

Dyslexia, a language communication disability remains a little-understood and controversial disease among specialists, educators, and parents. In easy-to-understand terms, Dr. Huston provides suggestions for parents and teachers to help dyslexic children learn to cope.

Author : Oliver P. Moynihan
Publisher : Nova Biomedical Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015055920121

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Dyslexia by Oliver P. Moynihan Pdf

Researchers have devoted considerable attention to how people learn to read, specifically how they recognise, pronounce, and understand printed words. These studies are helping to illuminate not only the normal process of learning to read but also the problems that may underlie dyslexia, a condition in which people are unable to acquire a high degree of reading skill despite adequate intelligence and training. When reading instruction begins, children (as well as adult learners) already possess large spoken-word vocabularies. Their initial task is to learn how these spoken words correspond to written alphabetic symbols. Impairments in this reading skill are often seen among children who have problems learning in school. Dyslexia is a brain-based type of learning disability that specifically impairs a person's ability to read. These individuals typically read at levels significantly lower than expected despite having normal intelligence. Although the disorder varies from person to person, common characteristics among people with dyslexia are difficulty with phonological processing (the manipulation of sounds) and/or rapid visual-verbal responding.

Author : Daphne M. Hurford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Dyslexia
ISBN : 9780684855417

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To Read Or Not to Read by Daphne M. Hurford Pdf

Offering a close-up look at what it is like to live with dyslexia, Hurford relates the inspiring stories of how her own students, as well as such famous people as Winston Churchill and Albert Einstein, have not only coped with dyslexia but thrived.

Author : J. Gordon Millichap,Nancy M. Millichap
Publisher : Charles C. Thomas Publisher
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Medical
ISBN : MINN:31951000919430A

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Dyslexia by J. Gordon Millichap,Nancy M. Millichap Pdf

Author : Frank H. Duffy,Norman Geschwind
Publisher : Little, Brown Medical Division
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015009531123

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Dyslexia by Frank H. Duffy,Norman Geschwind Pdf

Author : George W. Hynd,Morris Cohen
Publisher : Thomas Allen Publishers
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015005996825

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Dyslexia by George W. Hynd,Morris Cohen Pdf