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For the sake of millions of dyslexic people, I want to set the record straight concerning my dyslexia research and medical therapy ("Charity for dyslexics warns against 'cure'". News, April 2). In the past 30 years more than 75 per cent of the 30,000 dyslexics that I have treated in the US and the UK have been helped by simple and safe inner-ear medications and nutrients. Note we measure by improvement rates, which vary. We have never promised "cures".
I was amazed to read that the British Dyslexia Association (BDA) appeared so completely uninformed as to (1) the inner-ear (cerebellar) origin of dyslexia and its many symptoms, recently validated and in The Lancet and other scientific journals, and (2) the medical and non-medical (ocular-motor, auditory processing, sensory or vestibular integration, etc) therapies helpful for dyslexia.
The BDA is quite wrong to say "there is no treatment for dyslexia" and then go on to advise only its educational therapy. But then again, more than 90 per cent of all my successfully treated patients were BDA therapeutic faiiures
All dyslexics are characterised by balance/co-ordination rhythmic symptoms, as well as reading and non-reading symptoms, and norrnal-to-superior IQs. This led me to reason and then prove that dyslexics had a signal-scrambling disturbance of inner-ear (cerebellar) origin, and that their brain processors had secondary difficulties de-scrambling and compensating for these signals. Subsequently, I was able to show that various inner-ear enhancing medicines and nutrients, similar to those given to astronauts before space flights, were helpful in 75 to 85 per cent of my patients.
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What better testimony can there be than from Nicholas Hart and his mother, who were featured in your report?
The cerebellar neurophysiologist Sir John Eccles, a Nobel Prize winner, and many others support my research that concepts.
Harold N Levinson
Director,
Medical Dyslexic Treatment Centre
New York
No one involved with Dr Harold Levinson has claimed that his treatment for dyslexics was a "cure" (News, April 2). It is the description that the British Dyslexia Association has adopted in attacking his methods. No patients have ever described this treatment as a miracle; it is the result of 35 years' research carried out by Dr Levinson and others.
You incorrectly claimed that my son's reading age was now 16 years. This could mislead others and give them false hopes. Your report should have stated that Nick's speech and language assessment had improved significantly and was now measured as being three-to-four years above his peer group.
Susan Hart
Wellesbourne
Warwickshire
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