Health
The right diagnosis and treatment for dyslexia – The Guardian
Letters: Behavioural optometrist Irfaan Adamally on oculomotor dysfunction, Dr Neville Brown on the success of Maple Hayes Hall school, and Prof Brian Butterworth on the even more severe consequences of dyscalculia
My heart leapt when I saw your long read (The battle over dyslexia, 17 September), but returned rapidly to its normal position as I read it. No mention of the new rules for dyslexia assessors in schools. No mention of oculomotor dysfunction. No mention of behavioural optometry. How disappointing.
Dyslexia, an information processing error in the brain, certainly exists, but many of the children diagnosed as dyslexic are suffering instead from oculomotor dysfunctions of the eyes. To read fluently…
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