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Moving away from dyslexia
January 24, 2001People suffering from dyslexia can be helped by changing the way they move and exercise. Special routines, designed to tap into reflexes left over from birth, can lead to better co-ordination, improving both reading and writing abilities and greatly boosting the sufferer's confidence and self-esteem. These are the findings of psychologist Martin McPhillips of The Dyslexia Project, a joint venture between Queen's University and The Royal Maternity Hospital, Belfast. Mr McPhillips's work is featured in an article published today, Thursday 1 February 2001, in the February edition of The Psychologist magazine.
Mr McPhillips looked at the movements made by the foetus in the womb, and saw that certain 'primary reflexes' (such as the palmar reflex, whereby a baby will grasp your hand if you place your finger on its palm) assist the foetus's development. However, after birth, the infant starts to adapt to its new upright position, and 'secondary reflexes' take over, allowing the baby to walk around. He found that many of the dyslexic children he worked with still possessed strong primary reflexes, limiting their ability to perform skills such as following words on a page or holding a pencil.
Therefore, Mr McPhillips has developed a series of movements and exercises, designed to switch off the primary reflexes and promote co-ordination. The technique has so far been highly successful, and it is thought that it could be incorporated into school PE programmes, helping not only dyslexics but also the estimated five to ten per cent of school children who have some form of learning disability.
Other subjects in the new issue of The Psychologist include 'The future of clinical psychology'.
British Psychological Society (BPS)
Other subjects in the new issue of The Psychologist include 'The future of clinical psychology'.
British Psychological Society (BPS)
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Neural mechanism reveals why dyslexic brain has trouble distinguishing speech from noise
New research reveals that children with developmental dyslexia have a deficit in a brain mechanism involved in the perception of speech in a noisy environment.
Dyslexia varies across language barriers
Chinese-speaking children with dyslexia have a disorder that is distinctly different, and perhaps more complicated and severe, than that of English speakers.
Researchers report gene associated with language, speech and reading disorders
A new candidate gene for Specific Language Impairment has been identified by a research team directed by Mabel Rice at the University of Kansas, in collaboration with Shelley Smith, University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Javier Gayán of Neocodex, Seville, Spain.
Taking up music so you can hear
Anyone with an MP3 device -- just about every man, woman and child on the planet today, it seems -- has a notion of the majesty of music, of the primal place it holds in the human imagination.
Neurological differences support dyslexia subtypes
Parts of the right hemisphere of the brains of people with dyslexia have been shown to differ from those of normal readers.
Rutgers Research: Discoveries Shed New Light on How the Brain Processes What the Eye Sees
Researchers at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience (CMBN) at Rutgers University in Newark have identified the need to develop a new framework for understanding "perceptual stability" and how we see the world with their discovery that visual input obtained during eye movements is being processed by the brain but blocked from awareness.
Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading
Most people are expert readers, but it is something of an enigma that our brain can achieve expertise in such a recent cultural invention, which lies at the interface between vision and language.
JHU researcher discovers brain cells have 'memory'
As we look at the world around us, images flicker into our brains like so many disparate pixels on a computer screen that change every time our eyes move, which is several times a second. Yet we don't perceive the world as a constantly flashing computer display.
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