Does any one know of Neuro-linguistic program for use by individuals with dyslexia please?
Hello Anna,
Could you please provide a wee bit more information? Dyslexia is, by definition, is rooted in neurolinguistics. Are you looking at diagnosis? Educational assessment? Remediation? Could you help me understand what type of program you are specifically looking at? What are you hoping to achieve?
Kind regards,
Tara-Jean
Many thanks for this Jean. I conducted research into the perceived impact of dyslexia on student nurses and midwives and the coping strategies they use to try and overcome difficulties associated with dyslexia as part of my PhD degree. One of the participants explained that one of his coping strategies is what he termed as 'physical action' (touching different parts of his body, e.g shoulder , wrist etc to help him remember the steps he need to follow to complete the task in hand) when he is carrying out a task such as giving an injection. It was very interesting but on presenting this findings at a conference, someone informed me that what was described was called Neuro Linguist Anchoring programming. I have tried to get some basic information on it to help me write up that aspect of my findings properly but difficult to find. I want to know more about this programme and how it helps one to remember sequences to follow when undertaking a task. Hope you can direct me. I guess I should reword my question...
Hello Anna,
Interesting! When I worked with students with dyslexia I used the Lindamood-Bell program that works with phoneme sequencing, as well as Orton-Gillingham which involves using tactile methods. I have not heard of the specifics you have described, but it makes sense. I would be interested in learning more.
Kind regards,
Tara-Jean
Many thanks Jean. That sounds interesting too. I wonder if you would not mind giving me some references for the programmes you used please, especially the tactile one so I can explore and see whether it is to do with that or has any link with what was described please. The student did not know the name of the programme he was using but just referred to it as physical actions but when I search this on line did not find any such thing that related to what he described.
LiPS by Lindamood-Bel and if you search Orton-Gillingham, you will come up with a wealth of information. Tapping out syllables of words really helped to cue students as well.
Anna Crouch - I did some training in the PACE program a few years back: Processing And Cognitive Enhancement. Created by two brothers- an opthalmologist and psychologist who developed courses using a metronome and having students respond to stimuli with the beats per second. The array of exercises included addition, word attack, memory recall, and spatial manipulations, as well as eye movement. After about 6 weeks children who had been assessed with dyslexia showed dramatic grade improvement. To me it hinted at the possibility that dyslexia may not be a disability but a way of processing that attends to wholistics first and then may or may not go in details depending on the demands of the given task. So in terms on "anchoring," once the child had taken in the assimilation process of timing that the metronome had instilled, response time and processing were linked in such a way that a new stimulus, e.g., metropolis became mmm et rro po less sonically, both internally and expressively in 5/4 time.
To be clear, Tara-Jean Wenc - I stated the "possibility that...may not be..." meaning that social impairments like one sees in autism are not present in persons with dyslexia, and in my experience such people have better memory recall than grade "A" test takers. What I am suggesting is that by the demands that our society expects, people with dyslexia are handicapped and can be made to pathologize about that, and that is a shame. So I ask why would the CIA and NSA seek out people with dyslexia for code breaking assignments? And are Arabic reading and Chinese people also susceptible to dyslexia? Have you heard or seen anyone from those societies with the "condition?"
Well David, have you considered that individuals with autism may also suffer from learning disabilities (LD), such as dyslexia? Generally the behavioural aspect of the autism is the area of focus, but that does not preclude the possibility of co-morbidity of LD. Conversely, individuals with LD may develop social problems as a result of their LD. There are many reasons for a strong recall both in individuals with autism as well as some areas of LD. However, comparing autism to LD is really comparing apples to oranges. I have not done research into the Asian and Arabic populations, and am not familiar with the means of assessment (if any) in those countries. However, I have worked with individuals from those countries who have been diagnosed with learning disabilities when they attended postsecondary education within Canada. Please keep in mind that dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalcula and dyspraxia are all different areas of difficulty. I agree that the demands of society can exacerbate difficulties, which is why it is important for LD to be recognized and accommodated for, just as we would do for individuals who utilize wheelchairs. It is only 'handicapping' if we allow it to be so, which is one reason why the research community has fought long and hard to establish the presence and acceptance of LD I am sorry, but to suggest "...the possibility that dyslexia may not be a disability." flies in the face of research and has potential to move recognition and treatment in a negative direction. I would be happy to provide you with authors whose research in LD you may wish to read.
Hi all, many thanks for your imput. I did manage to find a couple of papers on the subject one of which was a research report on Neuro-Linguistic Programme Anchoring so I have managed to refer to it. I really appreciated your imput.
I have managed to find more information on Neuro-Linguistic Programming Anchoring (NLPA) although only a couple in relation to dyslexia. Many thanks
Ken and Keith Gibson developed the PACE program -[processing and cognitive enhancement] of academic skills training. It is a series of exercises that work with a metronome to focus attention and improve processing speed thereby overcoming the learned helplessness so many children and adults believe is their "lifelong disability." For 15 years the PACE program has been taken up throughout the country with often dramatic results. The program has word attack, eye movement, spatial, and math exercises as well as hidden built -in memory skills training. I would not consider it to be a NLP technique per se but definitely an enabling, enhancing training regime for people with dyslexic capacities (which the CIA and NSA are very interested in using for code work), because after all, we are hard wired to learn language BUT we are NOT hard wired for reading.
