Why did you write this book?
Despite having spent over 50 years attempting to advance a new and life-changing understanding and medical treatment for suffering dyslexics, I found that century old mistaken “brain damage/dysfunction” theories still had significant sway over dedicated teachers and healers. And so dyslexics and their parents as well as all those determined to help them were left in needless darkness—without the insights needed to enable the best possible, rapid recovery.
Accordingly, this book was written in an attempt to shed light on a disorder that has evaded solution since its first recognition in 1896. And best of all, the names and photos of real patients will explain to readers what this disorder is all about and how they were best helped using both med and non-med therapies.
What was wrong with earlier theories about dyslexia?
Ever since bright children were recognized to experience impairments in reading, writing and spelling over a century ago, there developed the natural assumption among experts that this developmental disorder —characterized by reversals—was due a failure/damage within their reading processor.
And the reason for this conviction was simple. It had been proven that adults—termed alexics— who completely lost their reading capacity to recognize letters and words following a brain injury had a lesion within their thinking brain’s reading processor. So it was natural to believe that children acquiring reading function had damage to this very same brain processor. It was as obvious as what goes up must come down.
There was only one problem: This belief, which still persists in varying theoretical forms, was proven mistaken by my research.
What causes dyslexia?
Having examined and listened to countless dyslexics over the years, it became obvious that the severe and hopeless reading comprehension impairment characterizing alexics was completely different from the reading difficulty of dyslexics. Whereas dyslexics had difficulties with reading tracking, memory, reversals…as well as with writing, spelling, math..balance/ coordination and had a favorable outcome, alexics had only a complete inability to recognize letters and words as well as thinking brain neurological signs.
So I recognized that these two reading disorders were as different as night and day just as the origins of high blood sugars in diabetes and in those normal individuals following a meal are different.
Next, I explored the balance and coordination difficulties characterizing dyslexics and found that they were caused by a dysfunction within the inner-ear and its supercomputing cerebellum—not by an alexia-like thinking brain impairment. And upon analysis, most all the reading and non-reading symptoms characterizing dyslexics were also determined to be of an inner-ear origin.
Why are the symptoms and intensity different for different people?
To explain all the symptoms and mechanisms characterizing dyslexics as well as their inner-ear/cerebellar findings, I theorized:
The inner-ear/cerebellum acts as a fine-tuner of signals to the brain. An impairment results in dizzy or scrambled signals. So when normal reading, writing, spelling, math, memory, speech, concentration…brain processors receive scramble signals, corresponding dyslexia-related symptoms may arise.
This explains why dyslexics often have high and even superior IQ’s. Were these processors primarily impaired as previously believed—one for each symptom or two, then IQ’s would be severely deficient and outcomes very poor—as in alexics.
Now it’s possible to easily explain all the variations in symptoms and intensities among dyslexics—depending on the degree of signal scrambling, the diverse processors receiving dizzy signals and their ability to compensate.
How can dyslexia now be medically treated?
By medically treating the inner-ear using inner-ear enhancing meds and vitamins as well as compensating therapies, it’s now possible to obtain rapid and dramatic improvements for all dyslexic symptoms—not just their reading impairment. And best of all, bright but dumb feeling dyslexic—young and old— can now feel as smart as they really are and attain dreams and ambitions that otherwise might never have been possible.
What analogy do you use to best explain and summarize dyslexia and its treatment?
Amazingly, I can render any normal child and adult temporarily dyslexic. All I have to do is spin them around until their signals are dizzy. Then they won’t be able to read, write, spell, recall, concentrate and balance/ coordinate well. And by treating them with anti-dizzy meds and related therapies, their symptoms and intensities can be minimized or prevented.
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