Controversial Approaches to Treating Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficit Disorder

Developmental Delay Syndromes: Psychometric Testing Before and After Chiropractic Treatment of 157 Children

“…63 The natural history of DDS shows that this condition often persists into adulthood. [17][18][19] Children with language, reading, coordination, and behavioral disorders show that without treatment, these problems persist into adulthood.…”

The Study of Dyslexia

“…One of the areas that BO concentrates on is perceptuo-motor function and exercises that are reminiscent of the "patterning treatment" of Dolman and Delacato (Silver, 1986). Often BO involves the assessment of functions which might conventionally be thought to lie within the domain of psychology, such as analyzing reading errors, subtyping dyslexia, and investigating higher visual processing skills such as decoding and short-term memory skills.…”

The Moving History of Vestibular Stimulation as a Therapeutic Intervention

“…Early therapies included treatment with anti-motion sickness medication (Levinson, 1991) as well as specific motion stimulation (e.g. Silver, 1986) and combined multisensory integration therapies (Ayres, 1978). Yet, these findings were already at that time heavily debated and even considered wrong (see Pope and Whiteley, 2003;Silver, 1986 for reviews), and have largely lost their influence on current models of dyslexia.…”