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Cellfield reading program stands the test of time for producing results. Thirteen years ago, Bellfield Speech Pathology began delivering the Cellfield Reading Program.
It consistently delivers an average of two years’ reading gain over a one-month period.
Dyslexia symptoms can be deceiving, and can elude teachers and parents. Many children slip through their school years without being able to read efficiently. They consistently struggle with decoding, unaware that they put in more effort than their peers to work out the text.
This effort takes up most of their working memory, reducing their learning and their interest both in school and reading.
Persistent difficulty with reading leads to embarrassment and loss of self-esteem, which can cause psychological problems such as anxiety, learned helplessness, and avoidance behaviours. This means that children are not able to pay attention or understand what they need to be doing, so they switch off to learning and to new information. Conventional dyslexia programs have not been successful in treating the underlying causes.
However, brain imaging has removed much of the controversy about the neural pathways involved in reading, and the differences between efficient and dyslexic readers. In reading, the brain has to coordinate many functions: language comprehension, neural processing, short-term memory, visual focus and coordination, and the interaction between brain, ears, mouth, and eyes. This all has to happen very quickly for efficient reading. Any inefficiency slows processing speeds and makes reading very difficult.
The good news is that those neural pathways can be rewired and made more efficient. Cellfield is based on the research from brain imaging, brain plasticity, and computer sciences to do what other programs can’t.
Cellfield presents reading processes in new ways, so that the executive function of the brain accepts it as being novel. That means that over-habituated readers can master baselevel processing skills, and use those skills automatically instead of through conscious effort. This frees up working memory space for comprehension, analysis, and storage in longterm memory.
In the first two weeks, Cellfield works to rewire the brain to create or correct the neural pathways for efficient reading. The next ten weeks provide systematic support to reinforce and strengthen these new pathways.
If you know someone who may benefit from an intensive program, Cellfield may be just what is needed.
Please contact Bellfield Speech Pathology 5622 1055 or bellfieldadmin@bellfieldsp. com.au for further information.