Reading
- Memory instability for letters, words, or numbers
- A tendency to skip over or scramble letters, words, and sentences
- A poor, slow, fatiguing reading ability prone to compensatory head tilting, near-far focusing, and finger pointing
- Reversal of letters such as b and d, words such as saw and was, and numbers such as 6 and 9, or 16 and 61
- Word blurring or movement or double images
- Headaches, vertigo, or nausea brought on by reading
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Writing
- Messy, poorly angulated, or drifting handwriting prone to size, spacing, and letter-sequencing errors similar to those pictured right.
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Spelling, Math, Memory, and Grammar
- Memory instability for spelling, grammar, math, names, dates, and lists; for sequences such as the alphabet, the days of the week, and the months of the year; and for following directions.
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Speech
- Speech disorders such as slurring, stuttering, minor articulation errors, poor word recall, and auditory-input and motor-output speech time lags, rendering speech perception and enunciation more slowly than desired; and a tendency to word scrambling, slips of the tongue, or misperception of the ear
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Direction
- Right/left and related directional uncertainty, such as difficulty knowing or remembering east or west, north or south
- Easy spatial disorientation
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Time
- Delay in learning to tell time, as well as a host of time-related symptoms, including lateness, compulsive scheduling, and even procrastination or difficulty starting things on time
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Concentration and Activity (ADD or ADHD)
- Impaired concentration, distractibility, hyperactivity, or overactivity
- Behavior, temper, or impulse disturbances
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Balance and Coordination
- Difficulties with balance and coordination functions, e.g., walking, running, skipping, hopping, tying shoelaces, and buttoning buttons; accident proneness
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Psychosomatics
- Have headaches, stomachaches, nausea, excessive fatigue and related "psychosomatic" symptoms sent you from medical pillar to post, to no avail?
- Are you prone to dizziness or motion sickness? Ringing ears? Bed wetting?
- Does your infant or young child suffer from cyclical vomiting syndrome?
- Are you oversensitive to hot and cold?
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Fears, Phobias and Related Anxiety Symptoms
Do you have phobias and related psychological and physical symptoms that have thus far defied a clear understanding and successful treatment? For example:
- Fears of the dark, getting lost, going to school.
- Fear or the avoidance of various balance, coordination, sports, and motion-related activities.
- Are you frightened by heights, cars, planes, bridges, elevators, subways, tunnels, open spaces, crowds, department stores, getting lost, losing control, and/or going crazy?
- Do irresistible, repetitive thoughts and actions — obsessions and compulsions — harass you and rigidify your ability to relax freely?
- Are you compelled to touch and retouch, check and recheck, think and rethink, and forever make lists of what must be done to avoid memory uncertainty and related anxiety?
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Self-Esteem/Body Image
- Are you prone to indecisiveness and feelings of inferiority, stupidity, ugliness?
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Mood/Depression
- Mood fluctuations, depressions, irritability
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Socialization
- Inept social skills
- Shyness, fear of rejection, etc.
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Emotions/Expression
- Difficulty reading one?s own emotions and those of others, ie Aspergers Syndrome
- Impaired/awkward facial and/or body expressions
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Thinking/Cognition
- Slow, hesitant and/or halting thoughts and their expression
- Foggy, blank and mistaken thought sequences
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