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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- Dyslexia Treatment
- Activity Schedules for Children With Autism: Teaching Independent Behavior (Topics in Autism) (Topics in Autism)
- THE LCP SOLUTION: The Remarkable Nutritional Treatment for ADHD, Dyslexia, and Dyspraxia
- Thinking About You Thinking About Me: Philosophy and strategies to further develop perspective taking and communicative abilities for persons with Asperger … Autism, Hyperlexia, ADHD, PDD-NOS, NVLD
- How To Reach and Teach Children and Teens with Dyslexia: A Parent and Teacher Guide to Helping Students of All Ages Academically, Socially, and Emotionally
February 22nd, 2006
Dyslexia
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