At least according to Radio 5 this morning. Apparently doing simple exercises, twice a day for 10 minutes each time cures Autism and ADHD.
It works by stimulating the cerebellum which enables more tasks to be processed in the background leaving the rest of the brain to handle learning. They claim a success rate between 90 and 100%. A few things which spraked off my BS detector.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/3731451.stm
- The unfeasibly high success rates
- All failures are written off as not following the programme successfully
- Quoting research, but no control group and no blinding
- Costs of £1500 per child per year
- The subjective nature of some of the successes
One guy who phoned in and said that his kid had been through the assessment process and a year's worth of treatment had shown no improvement (but he said he was sceptical going in) and neither had two other kids he knew. He was of course sidelined by the supporters of the treatment.
There doesn't seem to be much on Pubmed about it, but then again I searched for "dyslexia exercise" which may have been wrong.
It did throw up this commentary entitled 'lies, damned lies and (inappropriate) statistics' (my cherrypick) which said,
It works by stimulating the cerebellum which enables more tasks to be processed in the background leaving the rest of the brain to handle learning. They claim a success rate between 90 and 100%. A few things which spraked off my BS detector.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/3731451.stm
- The unfeasibly high success rates
- All failures are written off as not following the programme successfully
- Quoting research, but no control group and no blinding
- Costs of £1500 per child per year
- The subjective nature of some of the successes
One guy who phoned in and said that his kid had been through the assessment process and a year's worth of treatment had shown no improvement (but he said he was sceptical going in) and neither had two other kids he knew. He was of course sidelined by the supporters of the treatment.
There doesn't seem to be much on Pubmed about it, but then again I searched for "dyslexia exercise" which may have been wrong.
It did throw up this commentary entitled 'lies, damned lies and (inappropriate) statistics' (my cherrypick) which said,
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/...ve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=12775086