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Families rush to hear of psychiatrist's ground-breaking work on word blindness
By DUNCAN GIBBONS
A LECTURE by a leading authority on dyslexia proved so popular that he had to repeat it an hour later.
Hundreds of dyslexic people and their families packed the Manor House Hotel in Leamington to listen to American psychiatrist and neurologist Dr Harold Levinson.
Wendy Harrison, of the Leamington Spa Dyslexia Support Group, said: "People came from all over the Midlands.
"In addition to those who had read about Dr Levinson in the newspapers, many more had seen him on television earlier in the evening. It shows the extent of the problem and people's real need for help."
The New York doctor, whose ground-breaking treatment of dyslexia and attention deficit disorders has caused world-wide interest, was in Leamington to talk about the first clinical trials in Britain.
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His study of some 50 dyslexic youngsters has achieved the same impressive results as in the United States.
He says a high proportion of people with dyslexia have problems with their inner ear which can affect balance and co-ordination, and his treatment involves giving medication to ear problems.
Dr Levinson said: "Between 75 and 85 percent responded favourably, rapidly and in some cases dramatically to this unique medical treatment, which is a simple and safe combination of inner-ear improving medications and related nutrients.'
It was in the 1970s that Dr Levinson and his team began to see that the symptoms of dyslexia were due to signal-scrambling disturbances in the inner-ear.
Susan Hart, of the town's Dyslexia Support Group, said: 'We had no idea that people would be attending in such numbers.
'So many of them were simply desperate for information and to know more about Dr Levinson's successes.'
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