Methods of Reading

• Stereoscopic Eye Excercise
• Reading Method

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To those with dyslexia, I owe an apology for not making this method available earlier. However, multiple attempts to develop the necessary dyslexic treated and control groups, for statistical comparison, were unsuccessful. Manuscript submissions, to medical journals on three separate occasions, were unsuccessful in passing peer review screening. The problems inherent in developing good solid data could never be fulfilled.

The method has been effectively used in various regions. Method instruction has been given to Nevada educators through Great Basin College in Elko, Nevada. A non-profit United Dyslexia Association utilizes the method and it is very active in Wyoming and Oklahoma. Both dyslexic adults and children are taught this required reading method without charge.

Although I have been using the method on an individual basis for many years, it has never been used along with a large non-treated control group. The method’s success is its own obstacle. Attempts at use of a control group brought opposition by the method’s supporters. This was due to the fact that the control group children could be held back in school while the treated group was promoted.

This reading method is actually very simple and indeed cost effective. Dyslexics are merely required to use a stereopsis type eye exercise that is a life long necessity. This is coupled with a new method of reading. Both appear to be required as each alone is not completely functional. Method use has never been associated with any untoward effects. Surprisingly, to stop using the eye exercise produces a return to previous reading problems.

This reading method is not a substitute for any or all reading programs. It is a method that corrects dyslexic reading problems such as wavy or blurring words, joining of words, letter and word reversals, fabrication of words and adding wrong words. Periods, commas and apostrophes are now clearly seen, as well.

Generally, dyslexics receive only three separate instruction sessions. The first visit is for evaluation and instruction in use of an eye exercise. The second is for demonstration of the required reading method. The third is a review of the reading method as well as the demonstration of how to write and look at maps, telephone books and computer screens.

Method interpretation may be thought of as either a palliative relief from dyslexia or actual correction of dyslexic visual abnormalities. Its use allows for employment of any acceptable reading program as determined for age or reading level. The bell shape curve for abilities would then be the expected result.

This method is based upon an ocular-motor origin for dyslexia. However, the scientific literature offers little or no support for a dyslexia visual origin. Dyslexia is presented here as an error in stereopsis that is easily corrected.

Science editors have a commitment and obligation to demand rigid research requirements for any submitted research papers. This would be a more stringent requirement where a new theory or method conflicts with current scientific beliefs.

After failing to have the method published in a medical journal, a descriptive book was published. However, it had only a limited circulation. Surprisingly, an advertisement for the book in one home schooling magazine was refused because of the use of dyslexia. One reviewer also felt it couldn’t be dyslexia that was being treated because dyslexia was uncorrectable.

I am a medical Pathologist and the method was only accidentally discovered for personal use. The following is an evaluation form and believed mechanism of action that supports the causation of dyslexia as an abnormality in stereopsis.

Reading can be....

George T. Manilla, MD.
Elko, Nevada

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