Very brief information Permanent disability in reading and writing may show from the very first day of school.       In the middle of the second grade, it is often clear, that even the most ambitious attempts to teach reading and writing give poor results. In fact, it leads to no real benefit at all.     We then ask ourselves as parents: What did I do wrong?     In school, the teachers may ask a similar question: How have we failed that child?     The blame lies not with the parents or teachers. In reality every fifth boy - and every fifth girl too, - is not able to obtain reading ability during their school years.     That's the way it is. Imagine that a child with a reading and writing disability makes up her or his mind to learn how to read. Even that motivation is not sufficient for bringing a child - or any other disabled reader - closer to literacy.     On the contrary.     That's the way it is.     - If the disabled reading child pays extra special attention to the teacher and makes major efforts to learn to read, the effort will not bring the child any closer to reading ability.     - If you train your non-reading child hard every day, your training will, by no means, bring your child reading ability.     On the contrary.     The training will bring the child even farther from the goal of literacy.     - That's the way it is. You should know:     - that reading disability involves:     Using will-powered attention when trying to read.     The ability to pay attention is valuable in many fields, but if you concentrate on individual letters and how they build words, that is certainly not what reading is all about.     If you pay too much attention to letters and words, you will find it impossible to comprehend the contents of a text.     The meaning of the text is, of course, what reading is about.     - that a child can only use its will-powered attention to guide reading perception, given the child posses good intellectual function. Therefore, a child with a reading disability will be bright.     If you test the IQ of the reading disabled child, it will show to be normal, or even unexpectedly high.     - that even the best reading education will not be able to deter the child from focusing on the letters and the combination of letters in words, when trying to read.     The fact that lessons in reading demand, that the pupil pays attention to details - single letters and single words - is the very reason, that a disabled reader practically speaking never benefits from reading instruction.     - That's the way it is. What can you do? Help the child do homework in the most simple way possible. Inform the child about the texts content. Read aloud, so the child can remember the text for the next day in school.     Never force the disabled reading child to read aloud. On the contrary, you should preferably protect your child against such demands.     When a child shows great difficulty writing his/her own name - or simply is unable to write it - you should not demand that the child must write out his/her own homework.     You would not demand a person missing a foot or a leg to jump. Would you? We are not talking about a situation where a child asks the name of a letter. What here is concerned is disabled reading. Never hesitate to answer a question. Disabled reading or writing requires therapy.     Always be sure to take the disabled reading child to a doctor of chiropractic's.     Disabled readers and writers very often can be determined by a professional, as having a bad functioning pelvis and back. Improvement of back and pelvis functions, in most cases, will not lead to better reading, but at least the chiropractor will make the bodies of disabled readers perform better.     Although, sometimes treatment of the back and hips, in fact, will transform a disabled reader into a normal reader.      There are doctors who claim that medication can lead to success in reading performance. To enlighten yourself with possibly the most outstanding of them,     Read:     Harold N. Levinson, Md.: Smart But Feeling Dumb. New York: Warner Books, 1984. Passive, sound stimulation often reaps great benefit to disabled readers and writers. Disabled readers invariably suffer from bad co-ordination between the hearing sense and equilibrium functions, which can be successfully trained passively. It might be a very good idea to find a place, where sound stimulation is performed.     The only treatment, that has ever been found by medical research, to better reading among disabled readers, is, in fact, passive sound stimulation.     Unfortunately, only two doctors in France, (Bérard and Tomatis), offer sound stimulation. One organization in Denmark also does the original, Volfair therapeutic, sound Stimulation, created by the late physicist, Christian A. Volf, in the mid-thirties.     You can contact Dyslexia Information at:      dyslex@dyslex.com Medication tends to work, as long as it is given. The effects of passive sound treatment seem, in most cases, to be life-long.
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