POWERFUL COMMENTARY ON VISUAL ASPECTS OF DYSLEXIA

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Comment by Dr. Dan L. Fortenbacher on March 9, 2010 at 9:02pm

Len,
Thank you for posting this link. I think it is good to show the fact that Drs. Fernette and Brock Eide are MDs with impecable credentials. Here is from their website:
Brock L. Eide, M.D., M.A., is a Phi Beta Kappa and AOA Medal Honors Society graduate from the University of Washington, and University of Washington School of Medicine. He received his Masters Degree from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and engaged in postdoctoral studies at the University of California-San Francisco, National Institutes of Health, and University of Pennsylvania. He has lectured widely and published extensively in the fields of gifted education, learning disabilities, and twice exceptionalities such as giftedness and dyslexia, and served as consultant to the President's Council on Bioethics.

Fernette Eide M.D. is a Magna Cum Laude graduate with highest departmental honors from Harvard-Radcliffe College. She received her M.D. from the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine and has been on the Neurology faculties of University of Washington, the University of California-San Francisco, and University of Chicago School of Medicine. She has lecture widely and published extensively in the fields of gifted education, learning disabilities, and twice-exceptionalities such as giftedness and dyslexia, and served as consultant to the President's Council on Bioethics.

Both support vision therapy when appropriate to treat the vision problems that affect learning. They say in the discussion piece you mentioned:, " I (We) find the "visual controversy" in dyslexia exasperating. Visual problems are much more common in dyslexics" (Fernette and Brock Eide, M.D.)