Guia Completa de la Dislexia: Para Familiares Y Educadores Book

This has a real air of credibility about it. Anyone who has broad dyslexia symptoms themselves, or with someone close, will see the light go on. The whole dyslexia 'thing' has never made sense before reading this book - clearly dyslexia is not simply mixing letters up in reading and clearly involves a lot of other expressions that don't seemingly relate. Various 'establishment' (including Dyslexia Societies in various forms) explanations for this broadness tend to put dyslexia onto an autism spectrum as if that somehow explains anything... which doesn't really help in the least, in fact can be quite harmful in labelling. For one thing apologists for dyslexia are always claiming high functioning/achieving dyslexics from history, at the same time disavowing any savant type causes and therefore have no explanation on offer behind their examples.

Levinson on the other hand takes a logical position in putting the whole raft of manifestations together as inner ear dysfunction. In other words, we have long known that perhaps counter intuitively, the inner ear controls balance through sensory input to the cerebellum part of the brain. What then if all other sensory inputs and processing also happened in the same locality!?!

Levinson's extension has been to experiment with medicines that have demonstrable effect on this inner ear operation, for example motion sickness medicines and has found great efficacy across the whole raft of dyslexia outcomes. Here in lies the problem - his findings are not through the scientific method of hypothesising and experimental testing, but through clinical practicality and outcomes. Probably for this reason his ideas, proven by unconventional means, have not become established in the mainstream, and are only narrowly known popularly even after 40 odd years. Levinson must be nearing the end surely and so what then for his ideas?

As insightful though these ideas might be, I have to ask what use can this book can be? It is no easy read and is structured dyslexically (all over the place), reading too much as a plea for agreement than a 'how to' or a 'please explain'. Therefore what practical application? Levinson applies far too 'medical' an approach and unless one has friendly access (most unlikely given the failure of the ideas to enter the mainstream) to the medical establishment you have no avenue to pursue. There are no tools on offer and no strategies to pursue. So we have the answer, but what can we do then?