Diagnosing Learning Disabilities And Language Based Learning Disabilities
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Diagnosing learning disabilities, be they language based learning disabilities or visually based learning difficulties, can be a difficult and complex process, and it seems there are as many different opinions as there are different experts when it comes to diagnosing learning disabilities or dyslexia.
Part of the problem lies in the fact that learning disabilities are often not caused by one single problem but by a number of problems, and thus diagnosing learning disabilities becomes a multi-faceted, multi disciplined task.
Diagnosing learning disabilities early in a child’s life can have a huge impact on their overall journey through school and even life. Sure, many people with undiagnosed learning disabilities have done very well in life, most famously men like Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison, but even great artists like Sylvester Stallone, Cher, Tom Cruise, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Lindsay Wagner, Suzanne Somers, Henry Winkler, John Lennon, Beethoven, Mozart, Dustin Hoffman, Danny Glover and Steve McQueen all had a learning disabilities.
Diagnosing learning disabilities can be a simpler process of you consider the parts, rather than the sum of the whole. Focusing on diagnosing specific areas of learning disabilities may hold the answer for a majority of learning disabilities children, and this also tends to give us scope to treat the learning disabilities. Thus for language based learning disabilities, we can follow the appropriate treatment using, for example, speech therapy, whereas for visually based learning difficulties we can use vision therapy to improve the child’s reading, writing and spelling performance.
One of the major problems with diagnosing learning disabilities is that very few of the practitioners who are diagnosing can offer a tangible, useful way of helping the learning disabilities. Across the world, there seems to be an excess of diagnosing of learning disabilities, but not a lot of valid treatment options, so many parents of the children experts are diagnosing with learning disabilities are simply given advice like, “give them one instruction at a time,” or “sit them at the front of the class.” Yes, these suggestions may help, but language based learning difficulties usually require much greater intervention than a mere suggestion.
As a Behavioral Optometrist, I refer language based learning disabilities to those who treat them best, but I frequently find myself diagnosing vision based learning disabilities. The great thing about this is that there is something we can actually do to help these children. Diagnosing learning disabilities is one thing, , whether visual or language based learning disabilities, but providing effective treatment is often where things break down, and that is what has prompted me to pursue the innovative approach that I have.
Vision therapy can provide simple, targeted, effective exercises and activities that children with learning disabilities can do at home. Now for the first time this is available worldwide using the internet, in a very similar way to what I can offer my own patients in my own practice. These tried and true methods go beyond simply diagnosing learning disabilities, they provide a fun and effective way of treating learning disabilities. The instructions are written in a simple language, so parents can easily understand and apply these techniques for their children with learning disabilities.
In the modern world, it is no longer enough to just be diagnosing learning disabilities, we need to be treating them in an effective and low cost way. That is what this radical program, Learning @ Lightspeed is all about!
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