Dyslexia is a disability that affects one in five children.  Sally Shaywitz is a neuroscientist who is co-director of the Yale Center for the study of Learning and Attention and is one of the leading researchers on the topic of dyslexia.

According to Shaywitz, dyslexia is defined as difficulty in learning to read, when the person has the motivation to learn, has good intelligence, and has been properly instructed or taught.  It is not that the person who has dyslexia is...

Autism and Face Blindness

Many people on the Autism Spectrum report that they experience a ‘condition’ called Face Blindness.

What Face Blindness means for the individual, is that they have difficulty recognizing and remembering the faces of familiar people or remembering newly introduced persons. Sometimes the changes in a known person’s appearance, for example a hairstyle, can cause tremendous anxieties for a person experiencing the effects of...

When it comes to hearing aids it is important that you pick the hearing aid that will be best for you over an extended period of time. For that reason it is important that you inform yourself on the different hearing aids available. This article will tell you about completely-in-the-canal hearing aids and some of its advantages and disadvantages.

CIC hearing aids are the smallest hearing aids available today which make them virtually invisible to an observer. They are custom...

Causes of Alcoholism

The motor for alcohol dependence is drinking for the effect. The drinker wants to change his mood to get rid of tensions, anxiety or grimness or to get more appreciation. Most people drink every now and then to change mood, but the real drinker-to-be strives for a more intense change of mood. He wants to experience a real turn, and wants to feel good again. When he does this several times, the problem is not solved and he runs the risk that his body gets...

Type 1 diabetes is a more aggressive form of diabetes than Type 2. In Type 1 diabetes the sufferer is incapable of producing insulin altogether, and as a result will have more problems than a Type 2 sufferer who either produces less insulin or is incapable of absorbing insulin correctly. In the case of Type 2 diabetes the sufferer will often go weeks, months and even years without being aware that he or she has it; with Type 2 the symptoms will often require attention within a period of...

Inclined platform wheelchair lifts are ideal accessibility devices for people with accessibility challenges to move up and down the stairways with ease. They are very useful in churches, schools, public buildings and even in residential spaces. These accessibility devices are easy to operate and offer a great sense of independence to the users.

Advanced Operational Features with Added Advantages

Inclined platform wheelchair lifts are available in a variety of...

Everyday, workers in nursing scrubs witness people cry in pain as they hear doctors say “Sorry, we can do nothing at all.” Mothers’ hearts are torn apart when they discover their newborn babies having physical disabilities. Some develop syndromes leading to complicated health problems that soon left them handicapped. But what is sadder is the stigma they have to face living with disabilities.

There are 650 million people living with disabilities worldwide, and...

Being an older dad with young kids I try hard to keep myself active and in shape so that I can keep up with the kids as they get older. I also enjoy a game of golf, a good walk ruined as they say. I'm not a great player as I never get to play as often as I would like but I do enjoy it, so was really hacked off when I developed a shoulder injury that stopped me playing.

It wasn't actually as simple as that. The shoulder injury turned out to be a torn rotator cuff which stopped me...

Sometimes canes become a necessity after a disabling accident and for seniors a cane offers an added sense of security that they have available to them when they would like to take a walk with the assurance that they can do so independently. Independence is a huge part of what a well made walking cane offers in addition to support by walking and standing.

Yet, just because you might require the practical features of a cane to get around more easily does not mean that you need...

The basic action of this extract is the levelling of your glucose indicators due to its effect of removing the toxins from your organism and through the elimination of excess glucose. The second action, being a result of the first, is the almost immediate disappearance of all the ills associated with diabetes and the recuperation of normal body functions. The result is the disappearance of pain, insomnia, sexual dysfunction, constipation, extreme thirst, hunger, etc. coupled with the...