Diagnosing Learning Disabilities Together With Vision And Language Based Learning Difficulties
Diagnosing learning disabilities, be they language based learning disabilities or visually based learning difficulties, can be a difficult and complex procedure, and it seems there are as a lot of differing opinions as there are differing experts when it comes to diagnosing learning disabilities or dyslexia.
Part of the subject lies in the reality that learning disabilities are often not caused by one solitary question but by a variety of problems, and thus diagnosing learning disabilities becomes a multi-faceted, multi disciplined job.
Diagnosing learning disabilities early on in a child's life can have a enormous effect on their overall journey through school and even life. Sure, numerous 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 magnificent 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 if you bear in mind the parts, rather than the sum of the whole. Focusing on diagnosing particular areas of learning disabilities may hold the answer for a majority of learning disabilities children, and this likewise tends to offer us scope to treat the learning disabilities. Thus for language based learning disabilities, we can follow the suitable treatment using, for example, speech therapy, whereas for visually based learning problems we can use vision therapy to pick up the child's reading, writing and spelling performance.
One of the major difficulties with diagnosing learning disabilities is that very few of the practitioners who are diagnosing can offer a tangible, constructive 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 alternatives, so many parents of the children who 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 recommendations may help, but language based learning problems regularly 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 generally 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, be they visual or language based learning disabilities, but supplying successful treatment is often where things break down, and that is what has encouraged me to pursue the innovative method that I have.
Vision therapy can impart simple, targeted, successful exercises and activities that children with learning disabilities can do at home. Now for the first time this is obtainable worldwide using the internet, in a very comparable way to what I can present my own patients in my own practice. These tried and genuine techniques go beyond only diagnosing learning disabilities, they present a fun and effective way of treating learning disabilities. The instructions are written in a straightforward language, so parents can easily understand and apply these ideas for their children with learning disabilities.
In the contemporary world, it is no longer enough to simply be diagnosing learning disabilities, we want to be treating them in an efficient and low cost way. That is what this radical program, Learning @ Lightspeed is all about!
Darin Browne is a Behavioral Optometrist who lives in Queensland, Australia. He has recently developed an incredible Home Based Vision Therapy Course, which offers over 180 pages of teaching and exercises, empowering parents to train their own children’s visual skills and see positive, sustainable progress in their reading, writing and spelling. For a FREE Ecourse which includes some of these therapies, check out Diagnosing Learning Disabilities.
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