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October 2000
World-renowned American authority on dyslexia, Dr Harold Levinson, will be offering special clinics to administer his groundbreaking treatment to patients in the Croydon area later this month (October).
Psychiatrist and neurologist Dr Levinson - who heads The Levinson Medical Center for Learning Disabilities - will be arriving in Croydon with his medical team on Monday 23rd October, where he will be receiving patients throughout the week at the Selsdon Park Hotel on Addington Road in Sanderstead, Surrey, CR2 8YA.
These clinics, up to now based in Leamington and Birmingham, have already enjoyed phenomenal success - as did his lecture in February, which was so oversubscribed, Dr Levinson had to repeat it an hour later when hundreds more people arrived. As a direct result of this and subsequent press comment, more than 3,000 phone calls were received, generating thousands of requests for specific information about dyslexia and Dr Levinson's treatment.
Dr Levinson is internationally credited with being largely responsible for bringing about a dramatic breakthrough in the understanding, diagnosis, and medical treatment of dyslexia and related attention deficit and phobic disorders - which has brought hope and help to millions of sufferers worldwide.
It is thought that dyslexia affects up to one in five people. Dr Levinson estimates that his medical treatment will help the majority of these cases. Founded on his understanding that dyslexia and related learning disabilities originates from a "signal-scrambling" disturbance within the inner-ear and its supercomputer - the cerebellum (appearing similar to scrambled TV channels), Dr Levinson's medical treatment is based on a prescription of simple and safe inner-ear-improving motion sickness medications and nutrients that chemically "fine tune" impaired sensory and motor signals, and thus improve or remove the resulting dyslexia-related symptoms.
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A medical treatment study set up in Leamington last year found that between 80 and 90 per cent of dyslexics responded favourably, rapidly and in some cases dramatically to simple and safe inner-ear improving and "fine tuning" medications and nutrients, similar to those given to astronauts before space flights. "When properly combined with tutoring and other helpful inner-ear improving non-medical therapies, the results are often truly outstanding," said Dr Levinson. "And thus all dyslexics can be helped - once properly understood and diagnosed."
"The good news is that my new scientific instruments can now screen for this disorder - even before symptoms arise or result in emotional scarring. And, as a result of early medical and non-medical treatment, prevention is now possible - for the very first time," said Dr Levinson.
Dr Levinson's latest book Smart But Feeling Dumb has been described as "much needed" by educational experts, and his work is to be the subject of a BBC documentary later this year. As the independent scientific validation of Dr Levinson's pioneering research efforts continues to accelerate and spread - together with the rapid and often dramatic therapeutic benefits provided his many patients with dyslexia - there is a growing momentum among his enthusiastic supporters in the UK for opening additional centres so that all in need can be similarly helped.
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