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R S Worrall

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PubMed1990

Detecting health fraud in the field of learning disabilities.

Quackery is currently a widespread problem that pervades all aspects of healthcare, including the treatment of learning disorders. A discussion of the nature of modern health fraud in special education is presented. The psychopathology of health fraud, the standards by which pseudoscience and health quackery are defined, and the complexities of learning disorders are discussed. A Therapy Rating Scale to determine if an alternative therapy is reasonable is presented. Several popular therapies are used as examples.

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PubMed1990

Diet and dyslexia.

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Dietary Carbohydrates↗
PubMed1986

Reading disability: a discussion of visual, auditory, and linguistic factors.

A case is presented in which the chief complaint of letter reversals and poor reading achievement suggests a visual or visual-perceptual problem. Analysis of the history, refraction, visual skills, and visual-perceptual test results indicates that a visual system dysfunction is not a significant factor in this case. Rather, a linguistic skills deficit is suggested by the pattern of errors exhibited on the tests. The influence of linguistic skills on several commonly used visual tests is discussed.

Auditory Perception↗