Helping Children Overcome Learning Difficulties- Early Intervention Essential
Helping children overcome learning difficulties has been one of the greatest thrills of my life, and with early intervention disabilities can be overcome before they seriously affect the child’s future.
Diagnosing learning disabilities is a very controversial field, with as many opinions as there are so-called experts! Yet for all of us, the chief desire is the same: and we are doing all we can in order to be helping children overcome learning difficulties!
With early intervention disabilities such as dyslexia and other learning difficulties can be positively affected. When looking for or diagnosing learning disabilities it needs to be recognized that not every form of learning disability can be cured, but with the correct techniques and early intervention disabilities of a visual nature can certainly be treated and most often overcome.
An important step in diagnosing learning disabilities is to decide what the central cause of the disability is. If it is a language based problem, then you should see a speech therapist.
If it is an auditory based problem, then a hearing specialist is in order. If it is behavioral, then you may need to see anyone from a pediatrician to a dietitian, or even a psychologist can offer assistance. But for helping children overcome learning disabilities that are visually based, you need to see someone who concentrates on diagnosing learning disabilities that are centered around the visual system.
As a Behavioral Optometrist, I believe I can play a huge role in helping children overcome learning difficulties if they involve the eyes, visual system or anything to do with visual perception (such as visual memory, left right awareness, sequencing, coding, and so on). Once again, with early intervention disabilities can be overcome using vision therapy, which can train the right skills children need to reach their potential. If we can train the necessary skills in kids, then helping children overcome learning difficulties is easy, because they have the skills to do the job.
So, while ophthalmologists, pediatricians and other so called experts attack vision therapy, some of us are fighting back in the best way we know how: by helping children overcome learning difficulties. Despite what some say, there is a mountain of evidence supporting vision therapy, but there is some confusion even among Optometrists as to the visual basis in diagnosing learning disabilities and their treatment.
With vision therapy, not all therapies are equal. Some techniques are far better than others, and it is the experienced Behavioral Optometrist who can provide the necessary early intervention. Disabilities involving the visual system tend to be ones which, with the right techniques are easy to improve and can have a major impact in classroom performance. When we train things like eye movements, focus, eye coordination, visualization, left right awareness, sequencing, coding, pencil grip and the like, we tend to obtain good results fast. I certain so in my practice, and most teachers in the area refer directly to me, simply because they have seen the results.
But now, for the first time, we are able to offer the most innovative home vision therapy program, which has been pioneered over 20 years in my practice, and honed in refugee schools in the developing world, on a worldwide basis through the internet. Finally, wherever you live, you can provide vision therapy inexpensively, in your own home for your own child. Simple, comprehensive and well programmed therapies, right to your computer. And the good news is: they really work!
Diagnosing learning disabilities is the easy bit, but really helping children overcome learning difficulties is where the challenge lies. Our therapy program id attainable and effective, and it’s even fun, and remember that with early intervention disabilities with reading writing and spelling can be overcome.
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