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Ann Farris (transforming the negative)
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Date Posted: 14:20:48 07/01/10 Thu
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Jenny
's message, "Inquiry about Dyslexia" on 10:35:27 10/12/09 Mon
Hello,
Twenty plus years ago when I was Director of the Opera-Musical Theater Program at the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, DC, I was diagnosed as being heavily dyslexic and told there was nothing to be done to help me. This abridged version of an article I wrote describes what I’ve discovered over these last two decades about my particular condition.
My Diagnosis
Typically and simplistically a dyslexic is defined as someone who has trouble sounding out and reading words and who has a poor vocabulary. However, even though I had been diagnosed as ‘dyslexic’, that definition did not fit me. I had two other issues: I did not seem to have the skills to comprehend the content of what I was reading and any effort I made only brought on a sense of inner rushing up the core of my body, a searing pain in my arms and across my eyes and a feeling of confusion in my brain.
Elimination of Refined Sugar and Focusing on Emotions
By chance, someone advised me to go off refined sugar. I decided to try it and to my amazement after a period of time the painful inner rushing within my body all but stopped. I then undertook extensive therapy to understand and learn how to handle the emotional issues that I had experienced during my lifetime.
Retesting and Brain Gym
In November, 2005 I made two decisions. I would become licensed in Brain Gym® 1. (Educational Kinesiology) a movement-based program that is very effective in correcting dyslexic challenges and, I would be retested. I wanted to see how the scientific community would assess my dyslexic condition now.
Reference: http://www.braingym.org
Hyperlexia
This time the testing resulted in a different diagnosis. My primary issue is hyperlexia, dyslexia is secondary (only 20% of my problem). The reason that I could not easily comprehend what I read came from the fact that I was not creating images of the content while I was reading. The tests revealed that my reading comprehension was at a grade 3 level. (And I am a graduate of Yale!)
Reference: http://www.k12academics.com/disorders-disabilities/hyperlexia
Lindamood-Bell
To correct this situation I took the Visualizing and Verbalizing for Language Comprehension and Thinking Remedial Program at Lindamood-Bell. While I was proud of my progress I somehow felt the process drummed out of me a desire to read.
Reference: http://www.lblp.com
Svetlana Masgutova Method and Reflexes
Shortly thereafter, in February 2006, as part of my training to become a Brain Gym instructor, I took a class on reflex pattern integration from Svetlana Masgutova.Her work draws out new levels of potential from physical and mental challenges, ranging from cerebral palsy, paralysis and developmental delays to post-traumatic stress and learning disabilities.
Reference: http://www.masgutovamethod.com
Effect on Baby in Utero of a Mother’s Emotional Trauma During Pregnancy
This class was a turning point for me. Masgutova’s research in Russia of clients with different learning processes showed that some people developed while in utero their neuro-developmental basis for dyslexia, hyperlexia, autism, etc. In some of these cases, the mothers experienced emotional traumas while pregnant and that trauma was then transferred to their child. The result physically is that some of the reflexes which usually developed when the baby is in utero do not develop correctly causing incomplete neurological connections in the brain formation. This was my case. My mother several years earlier had shared she was sure she had caused my dyslexia when she was pregnant with me because she had experience a major emotional challenge.
“Switching On” My Brain
For a year and a half I worked with the Brain Gym Balances and also with Masgutova Reflex Integration processes to correct the emotional issues linked to the underdeveloped reflexes. These processes have been amazingly effective in helping me solve the downside of hyperlexia/dyslexia.
By balancing the emotions and the reflexes simultaneously, I am able to continue reading. I am learning that concentration must be stress-free so that my brain will function as I need it to.
Progress At Last
The last twenty years have been quite a personal journey. I wouldn’t have missed it for anything. Now, I feel like a new person. To experience the joy of comprehending what I read is such a gift and such a relief.
1. Brain Gym® is a registered trademark of Brain Gym International/Educational Kinesiology Foundation, www.braingym.org.
Copyright 2009 Ann Farris
www.dyslexiadiscovery.com
All rights reserved
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