Nine years is a long time for an 11-year-old boy to be without any hearing in his right ear, however, this is what happened to Jerome Bartens who had to cope with this handicap. He was diagnosed as deaf in his right ear when he was just 2-years-old.

Doctors and hearing aid audiologists could offer no help to the Bartens’ and the cause of his deafness was left unresolved until 27 January 2008 when he and some friends were playing in a church hall. Something...

Budgeting is of major concern to parents of children with Autism. The specialized therapy and diet, if you chose to use those, are very important. There are many resources available to help parents or people with autism. We will go into one of the least considered resources in this article.

This resource will sound strange in the beginning but keep reading. At times researchers are looking for information which will be easy for you to provide and not include any real intrusion...

Auditory dyslexia, also known as dysphonetic dyslexia, is a disorder that affects a person's ability to distinguish individual letter sounds within words.  Usually there is nothing wrong with the person's hearing, but the brain is unable to correctly process the sounds it receives.  While visual dyslexics can have trouble identifying written letters, auditory dyslexics have the same kind of problems hearing letter sounds.  Some of the symptoms are:

• Difficulty...

The decision to purchase a scooter chair can be a tough one, there are a lot of considerations to take into account when you are trying to fit yourself with a mobility device. I recently put my Grandmother into a chair and we took a long time to make the decision becuase of the cost that is associated and the sheer amount of options and chairs that are available.

First Thing Is First
Where will you be using the scooter chair the most? Will you be using it outdoors, Indoors or...

Dyslexia is often thought of as the switching of letters within a word or seeing or writing letters backwards.  While both of these indicators may be present in the dyslexic, they not always are.  Dyslexia is a neurological disability that makes learning to read, spell, or comprehend, difficult.  If you suspect your child has dyslexia what should you do?

The answer is simple.  You should test for dyslexia.  Okay, now you know what to do, how should you you...

Making the best use of exercise material is actually made easier by coming to the understanding that there's more than enough equipment and fitness-in-training aids out there, ready to be taken advantage of. Generally speaking, many such fitness aids include exercise programs, books and DVD videos, both motivational and fitness-related. Make using these aids a high priority, if possible.

These days, just about anyone who has an interest in fitness achievement will be able to...

In 1878 Adolph Kussmaul, a German neurologist, began the first recorded investigation into people that suffered with reading difficulties.  He was aiming at making a connection between adults with reading difficulties and neurological impairment.  He found that many of his patients could not properly read and often would use words in a "wrong order".  He used the term word blindness to explain their difficulties.

Dyslexia history then moves on with an 1891...

The unnecessary make use of overweight has been related to growth of diabetes. A new analysis at the University of Colorado fitness Science Center, USA achieve that taking in of an superfluous 40g of overweight time rise the probability of increasing diabetes by three period.

Overweight upper class food, particularly single wet with animal fat, seems to destruction the insulin's influence. Examine at the University of Sydney in Australia steady the drench...

Disability aids are devices designed to assist in the lives of those people living with disabilities and can be anything from a bottle opener right through to a mobility scooter or stair left and beyond.

Disabilities can be brought on by any number of things, whether an accident, age or birth and these sometimes simple devices can drastically improve the quality of life of those affected.

As mentioned above, even the smallest item can act as a disability aid....

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...