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Learning problems are neurological problems: Dyslexia, Hyperlexia, Alexia, Agnosia, and others--all have presumed neurological roots, according to the literature over the decades. A small percentage are due to organic brain damage, many more appear to stem from inadequate neural development.

Research performed at the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh in nine years of basic, taxpayer funded experimentation and pilot school demonstrations was able to achieve statistically significant remediation of a very large percentage of these latter students, with transfer into math and reading and spelling skills.

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSTIC QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED TO DETERMINE  THE ROLE OF VISION AND PERCEPTION IN THE EFFICACY OF LEARNING - This is a listing of tests that reveals how well-integrated a child's skills are and just which ones are needed to perform well in a class.

The critics of perceptual therapy and visual therapy for collateral visual functioning problems are Legion, largely ignorant or critcal of the literature that supports positive relationships between vision and learning skills, or, unfortunately, they may be victims, having trusted  their colleagues who have produced unscholarly, professionally biased pseudoscientific work. (Sound like I'm being hard and unprofessional? I really don't think so, but judge for yourself -- especially you docs lurking here, See: Some Answers for Learning Disabilities Despite the Clinical/Ophthalmological Problem; Ophthalmological Support of a Vision/Learning Link)

Teachers are brain surgeons. Teachers are always remodeling their kids' brains. What do vision specialists, neourologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and educators all have in common? It's the BRAIN.

What does vision have to do with learning? Here are two articles, the first is a bit more general, the second more specifically for professionals:   NEURODEVELOPMENTAL OPTOMETRY The difference between sight and vision.   LEARNING SUCCESS AND THE ROLE OF NEURODEVELOPMENTAL OPTOMETRY

Integrating vision with the other senses - is there a neurological basis for Visual Therapy in learning? This article is a chapter for a post-graduate series on vision. It's technical, but very loaded with information.

A Checklist for learning problems -- helps to identify causes of academic problems.

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