Anybody know any more details about this? (dyslexia "c

I haven’t heard of this one, but I can say that the sample size is way to small to support a firm conclusion on the effectiveness of the treatment. The results would have to be replicated in a larger study, or series of studies before anyone could say this is a proven treatment.

Magdalena

There are recurring “cures” which involve spatial exercises — but generally they don’t get replicated. It’s interesting, though, that they’re not *exactly* replicated —but different people keep “discovering” some kind of exercise or handedness or “orientation” connection.
I have a feeling there’s something we’re not recognizing.

I’ve had discussions about this with many people in the field and parents of children like mine who are dyslexic and have no innate sense of left/right and/or motor problems. Even the very athletic children at his LD school often play defense of other positions that allow them more processing time when they play.

One teacher I know wants to study this - she thinks there must be some relationship in the brain between the areas responsible for these characteristics and language processing.

I think alot of parents here have found that remediating certain sensory/motor deficits helps clear the way for academic remediation, but it would be a mistake to think that exercise can teach a dyslexic child to read. (In my opinion!)

I just posted about this in the Reading Forum under “dyslexia exercise cure.” In the U.S. they are known as Dore Acheivement Center
www.dorecenters.com They say they are doing a much bigger soon to be released study.

They will send you a DVD or video for free & I listened to a long broadcast on their website. It’s an interesting concept.

The exercises are fairly simple requiring 30 minutes a day over a long period of time (a year or more as I recall) with visits to the center every six weeks to change up the program.

Caran