Are reading and learning difficulties preventing your children from shining?
WHAT IS DYSLEXIA?
The word DYSLEXIA comes from the Greek language and literally means difficulty with words (‘dys’-difficult, ‘lexis’-words). When left untreated, there are significant limitations in the development of specific aspects of speech, reading, spelling, writing and sometimes numeracy, which may lead to secondary behavioural problems.
It is estimated by the British Dyslexia Association that 10% of children have some degree of dyslexia. Unless a teacher or parent is skilled in the identification of visual dyslexia, the person may be misdiagnosed and frequently regarded as lazy, forgetful and inattentive, or even slow.
THE FINDINGS OF ORTHOPTIST ALISON LAWSON
Alison Lawson is a qualified Orthoptist who has practised at various hospitals including the Royal Children’s Hospital, Sydney, and Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, London.
During her career, she worked with children with learning difficulties, and made extensive research into the visual cortex part of the brain to try to help these children. She also observed that these children’s eyes were not working together as they should. This resulted in the higher centres of the brain suppressing the images in the visual cortex part of the brain for a particular eye, therefore hindering the visual processing of the child. As vision is so important for learning, the child with this problem struggles to interpret the building blocks of reading and writing, generally falling behind their peers.
This lead her to develop the safe and simple medical treatment for Visual Dyslexia which utilised the LASD (Lawson Anti-Suppression Device) developed and patented by Mrs Lawson.
Since that time, literally thousands of people have had their lives changed since undergoing this revolutionary world first treatment.
THE TREATMENT
• An assessment is first undertaken to ensure the treatment will be beneficial. This takes about 1 hour and the results are immediately discussed with the client.
• An average of 10 one hour sessions are completed over a minimum of two weeks and up to around 10 weeks. Sessions include stabilising the unsteady fixation of the eye, remedial work on the LASD using methods to aid in the retention of learning, removal of suppression, eye exercises, retraining the brain, training up the visual memory, and discussing and checking the homework.
• The treatment also includes homework which is mandatory for a successful outcome. Homework includes eye exercises, spelling, writing, number patterns/times tables, brain training, transcription, bar reading, memory work, etc.
• On completion of the treatment the unsteady fixation is stabilised, the eyes should work better together thus improving depth perception, suppression is no longer operating, reading, spelling and learning should be easier and more enjoyable, concentration and comprehension should improve, letters will no longer move/blur/shake on the page, processing of learning should be faster, getting thoughts down on paper should be easier, eyes should be more comfortable as well as many other benefits which pertain to each individual as the underlying medical condition associated with the learning difficulty is treated.
At The Alison Lawson Centre Sunshine Coast you are respected, valued and encouraged to reach your full potential-whatever that may be for you as an individual.
You can do great things with your life.
You were meant to SHINE!
The word DYSLEXIA comes from the Greek language and literally means difficulty with words (‘dys’-difficult, ‘lexis’-words). When left untreated, there are significant limitations in the development of specific aspects of speech, reading, spelling, writing and sometimes numeracy, which may lead to secondary behavioural problems.
It is estimated by the British Dyslexia Association that 10% of children have some degree of dyslexia. Unless a teacher or parent is skilled in the identification of visual dyslexia, the person may be misdiagnosed and frequently regarded as lazy, forgetful and inattentive, or even slow.
THE FINDINGS OF ORTHOPTIST ALISON LAWSON
Alison Lawson is a qualified Orthoptist who has practised at various hospitals including the Royal Children’s Hospital, Sydney, and Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, London.
During her career, she worked with children with learning difficulties, and made extensive research into the visual cortex part of the brain to try to help these children. She also observed that these children’s eyes were not working together as they should. This resulted in the higher centres of the brain suppressing the images in the visual cortex part of the brain for a particular eye, therefore hindering the visual processing of the child. As vision is so important for learning, the child with this problem struggles to interpret the building blocks of reading and writing, generally falling behind their peers.
This lead her to develop the safe and simple medical treatment for Visual Dyslexia which utilised the LASD (Lawson Anti-Suppression Device) developed and patented by Mrs Lawson.
Since that time, literally thousands of people have had their lives changed since undergoing this revolutionary world first treatment.
THE TREATMENT
• An assessment is first undertaken to ensure the treatment will be beneficial. This takes about 1 hour and the results are immediately discussed with the client.
• An average of 10 one hour sessions are completed over a minimum of two weeks and up to around 10 weeks. Sessions include stabilising the unsteady fixation of the eye, remedial work on the LASD using methods to aid in the retention of learning, removal of suppression, eye exercises, retraining the brain, training up the visual memory, and discussing and checking the homework.
• The treatment also includes homework which is mandatory for a successful outcome. Homework includes eye exercises, spelling, writing, number patterns/times tables, brain training, transcription, bar reading, memory work, etc.
• On completion of the treatment the unsteady fixation is stabilised, the eyes should work better together thus improving depth perception, suppression is no longer operating, reading, spelling and learning should be easier and more enjoyable, concentration and comprehension should improve, letters will no longer move/blur/shake on the page, processing of learning should be faster, getting thoughts down on paper should be easier, eyes should be more comfortable as well as many other benefits which pertain to each individual as the underlying medical condition associated with the learning difficulty is treated.
At The Alison Lawson Centre Sunshine Coast you are respected, valued and encouraged to reach your full potential-whatever that may be for you as an individual.
You can do great things with your life.
You were meant to SHINE!