Learning Problems

"Learning problems" is not a diagnosis but rather a description of a collection of symptoms that includes hyperactivity, reading problems, language problems, math problems, writing problems, behavior problems, and a host of other symptoms. These are all typical of brain-injured children.

There are more than 300 different labels that are commonly used to describe brain-injured children. The vast majority of these labels are not proper diagnoses but rather are descriptions of symptoms of brain injury.

A proper diagnosis describes where the injury exists in the brain, the degree of the injury to the brain, and the extent of the injury to the brain.

Using symptoms in place of a proper diagnosis often leads to the attempt to treat those symptoms. This does not work.

To be successful one must treat the brain, where the injury actually exists.

Labels like "dyslexia", "ADD" (Attention Deficit Disorder), "mentally retarded" are not used in the literature of The Institutes, but rather the term "brain-injured". This refers to the entire spectrum of brain injury from profound coma to mild learning problems and every kind and degree of brain injury in between.

See the following articles for more information:

What To Do About Your Brain Injured Child

Why Johnny Can Read

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