It is now possible to deliver the full Cellfield dyslexia program in the Gold Coast, which not only targets essential reading skills gains but also the transition into reading with fluency.
How Does the Overcoming Dyslexia Treatment Program Work?
Cellfield dyslexia treatment uses brain plasticity and clever computer science to synchronise information and deliver it directly where it is needed, quickly and efficiently in overcoming dyslexia.
In the last ten years, brain imaging technology has made it possible to see brains working while a child is reading.
Normal readers use their left half of their brain in a compact, interconnected and highly efficient way.
Poor readers use both sides of their brains in a disconnected and highly inefficient way.
In early stages of reading, none of this matters much.
In later stages of reading, it matters much... very much.
Dyslexia treatment requires reading fluently with good comprehension that needs many things to happen very quickly.
Our eyes need to see words coming in peripheral vision, before we actually look at them.
Seeing always comes first. Sound structure needs to follow almost instantaneously.
By the time words come into central vision, fluent readers already understand what they are reading.
They use high speed scanning for checking, not reading.
Cellfield uses brain plasticity and clever computer science to synchronise information and deliver it directly where it is needed, quickly and efficiently.
Only then can children recognise words in peripheral vision, and have spare processing capacity in working memory to think about meaning.
It is this increased processing capacity that makes it possible for Cellfield children to make the transition into fluent reading and overcoming dyslexia.
Professor Max Coltheart
A Preliminary Study of the effectiveness of the Cellfield reading program
