Brightstar Netherlands
Brightstar whose treatment programme consists of a visual stimulation based on your heart-rate plus traditional teaching have opened a clinic in the Netherlands
The website is in Dutch but it contains a 9 minute video in English to watch. Consisting mostly of interviews with users of the treatment and Brightstar staff it obviously shows the treatment in a good light. However they show very little of the actual treatment and do not mention the tradition one-to-one teaching that is also part of the course. Critically the video also has an interview with Duncan Goodhew, UK olympic hero from the 1980’s and Vice President of the Dyslexia Institute, a registered charity. Mr Goodhew endorses the treatment without mentioning the fact that he is a share-holder in the company. Such deception undermines the credibility of the Dyslexia Institute and of dyslexia charities in general. How can parents trust the advice they get from professionals when the spokesmen for those professionals are profiting from that advice?
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- Think Social! A Social Thinking Curriculum for School-Age Students for Teaching Social Thinking and Related Skills to students with High Functioning Autism, PDD-NOS, Asperger Syndrome, Nonverbal Learning Disability, ADHD
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February 22nd, 2006
Dyslexia
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