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| Attempts have been and are being made throughout the world to identify
and remediate Learning Disabilities. We have been a part of this in the
public schools in the past, and since 1986 through a private clinic/center
called The Kurtz Center. Our center is located in Winter Park, Florida,
which is northeast of and adjacent to Orlando (home of the NBA's Orlando
Magic).
Since 1986 we have discovered ways to identify and successfully remediate
specific subtypes of these things called Learning Disabilities.
We felt that the world needs to know that success is now available.
We are not the only clinic/center to have achieved such extraordinary success,
but unfortunately there are only a few presently available.
A definition of Learning Disabilities which comes via the U.S. Congress
Public Law 94-142: Education for All Handicapped Children Act is: |
Specific Learning Disabilities
A disorder in one
or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding
or in using language, spoken or written, which disorder may manifest itself
in imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do
mathematical calculations. Such disorders include such conditions as perceptual
handicaps, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental
aphasia. Such term does not include children who have learning problems,
which are primarily the result of visual, hearing, or motor handicaps,
or mental retardation, of emotional disturbance, or of environmental, cultural,
or economic disadvantage. |
The National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH)describes learning
disabilities as:
A disorder that affects
people's ability to either interpret what they see and hear or to link
information from different parts of the brain.
These limitations can show up in many ways -- as specific difficulties
with spoken and written language, coordination, self-control, or attention.
Such difficulties extend to schoolwork and can impede learning to read
or write, or to do math. |
Find out what the NICHCY has to say
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