BookHarold N. Levinson.
Summary: In this ground-breaking book, Dr. Harold Levinson provides his follow-up work about truly understanding and successfully treating children and adults with many and diverse dyslexia-related disorders such as those found on the cover. This fascinating, life-changing title is primarily about helping children who suffer from varied combinations and severities of previously unexplained inner-ear-determined symptoms resulting in difficulties with: reading, writing, spelling, math, memory, speech, sense of direction and time grammar, concentration/activity-level, balance and coordination headaches, nausea, dizziness, ringing ears, and motion-sickness frustration levels and feeling dumb, ugly, klutzy, phobic, and depressed impulsivity, cutting class, dropping out of school, and substance abuse bullying and being bullied as well as anger and social interactions later becoming emotionally traumatized and scarred dysfunctional adults Feeling Smarter and Smarter is thus also about and for the millions of frus-trated and failing adults who are often overwhelmed by similar and even more complicated symptoms—as well as for their dedicated healers. Having laid the initial foundations for his many current insights in an earlier bestseller, Smart But Feeling Dumb, Dr. Levinson now presents a compelling range of enlightening new cases and data as well as a large number of highly original discoveries—such as his challenging illumination that all dyslexia-related manifestations are primarily inner-ear or cerebellar-vestibular—not cerebrally—determined and so do not impair IQ, and an “ingeniously simple” explanatory theory of symptom formation. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Dyslexia by any other name
The bottom line
A bit of history and discovery
The turning point : solving the dyslexia riddle
Listening to dyslexics : my simple clinical path proved key to discovery
Kathy : the intriguing complexity of dyslexia
The self-diagnostic test : evaluating patients and theories
Kathy and the mistaken theories of dyslexia
The CVS theory of dyslexia : a theory's value is entirely dependent on its explanatory and predictive capabilities
Only the CVS theory can explain all of Kathy's dyslexic symptoms and mechanisms
Some important Q&As : especially about the higher cerebellum and Kathy
Another remarkable case : highlighting the dyslexia/ADD/ADHA/phobia connection
Making the connections : an introductory overview
New insights into ADD/ADHD
The CVS/phobia link : three steps toward conviction
The reading process in dyslexia
The "super-ten" basic mechanisms explaining the dyslexia syndrome
Many helpful therapies
Four steps to a certain diagnosis
"I didn't want medical treatment, but..." : depression vs. "dyslexia without 'dyslexia'"
Real smart drugs and treatment
An effective partial medical treatment for autism (ASD) and autistic trait disorder or pseudo-autism
Kathy's favorable response to medical treatment
Summary
Closure : the end is just a new beginning.