Dyslexia

Dyslexia is a learning disorder that involves difficulty reading due to problems identifying speech sounds and learning how they relate to letters and words (decoding). It is the most common learning disability in children and persists throughout life.

How is Dyslexia Diagnosed?

• Home life – The doctor may ask for a description of the family and home life, including who lives at home and whether there are any problems at home.
• Questionnaires – The doctor may have the child, family members or teachers answer written questions. The child may be asked to take tests to identify reading and language abilities.
• Vision, hearing and brain (neurological) tests. 
• Psychological testing. 
• Testing reading and other academic skills.

Symptoms

• Delayed early language development
• Problems recognizing the differences between similar sounds or segmenting words.
• Slow learning of new vocabulary words
• Difficulty copying from the board or a book.
• Difficulty with learning reading, writing, and spelling skills
• A child may not be able to remember content, even if it involves a favorite video or storybook.
• Problems with spatial relationships can extend beyond the classroom and be observed on the playground. The child may appear to be uncoordinated and have difficulty with organized sports or games.
• Difficulty with left and right is common, and often dominance for either hand has not been established.

Causes

While the exact cause is unknown, possible causes are:

• Family history
• Premature birth or low birth weight of the baby
• Exposure to alcohol or drugs such as nicotine during pregnancy
• Infection that alters development of the brain in foetus

Treatment

Naturopathy Treatment

• Mud pack
• Enema
• Steam bath
• Whole body wet sheet pack
• Full body massage
• Feet, palm and head massage
• Dry friction bath
• Wet friction bath
• Spine bath.

Yoga

1. Sukshma vyayam
2. Asanas
   • Thunderpose
   • Cat pose
   • Half camel pose
   • Rabbit pose
   • Frog pose
   • Setubandha asana
   • Suptaudrakarshanasan
   • Crocodile pose
   • Bhujangasana
   • Tiryak bhujangasana
3. Suryanamaskar
4. Shithalikaran
5. Pranayam
   • Anulom vilom
   • Kapalbhati
   • Bhramari
6. Mudras
   • Gyana mudra
   • Prana mudra
   • Apan mudra
   • Vayu mudra.

Key Notes

• Patient should always take care of its own capacity. Capacity of movement, holding the posture and capacity of repetition.
• If patient is unable to seat calmly  they are suggested to start with standing poses asanas,  surya namaskar followed by shithalikaran and lastly pranayam Mudra.
• If patient is unable to work hard or suffering from other diseases or feels always exhausted they should start from mudra,  pranayam,  laying down asanas and then sukshma vyayam.

Diet

1. 6am – Kadha (saunf, Ajwain, methi dana, jeera, ilaichi).
2. Breakfast – Daliya , sabji , small cutting salad, one sweet fruit or 4 pieces of dates.
3. 12 pm – One glass butter milk (no sugar no salt but could be added some jaggery according to taste)
4. Lunch (2pm-3pm) – Brown rice, roti, kadhi, sabji, patli daal, one bowl of minutely chopped salad.
5. 4pm – sweet lime juice.
6.  7pm to 9pm – Fox nuts ( full makha), one sweet pulpy  fruit , a cup of warm milk.

Psychological Treatment

• The patient should be kept in a healthy environment and with people they are comfortable with.
• The main aim of attendant should be to convince the patient for the treatment. Positive results are seen in a very few days.
• Never blame the patient for the situation they are in.
• Talk to the patients on the topic they want to talk about and in between the talking tell the patients some right things in a very few days.
• Always tell the patient that he/she is correct and someone is there who needs them.
• Always make the patient feel good about themselves by telling good things about them and their surroundings.
• Never force the patient for anything like getting up early do exercises , yoga or meditation.

Do’s and Don’ts

Say YES to:

1. Wake up before sunrise.
2. Take proper rest.
3. Pray and have positive and generous thoughts.
4. Take pure natural satwik food.
5. Milk, butter milk, sprouts, fox nuts dates, raisins, fig, honey, jaggery, and sweet pulpy fruits.
6. Fruit juice and vegetable’s soup.

Say NO to:

1. Laziness, stress, selfishness.
2. Maida, pickles, papad, Mathias, bhujiya, nimki, biscuits.
3. All kind of packed food and juice.
4. Tea, coffee, white sugar and red chilly.
5. Avoid to eat without hunger and over eating.
6. Avoid all sour food including lemon and tamarind.

Key Points

• The person suffering from any kind of mental aliment should avoid wearing dark colour clothes.
• They should avoid sleeping on dark coloured bedsheets.
• They should also avoid keeping sharp edged furniture and household things.
• Before sleeping they should not watch or play violent movies or games.
• They should have a poster or a wall decoration of big yellow flower in their bedroom, which they should see before going to bed and after getting up in the morning.

All the information available on this website is for education and awareness purposes only. Follow these practices only under the guidance of a trained Yoga and Naturopathy practitioner. Punam Agarwal and her Yoga and Naturopathy initiatives are not liable for any injuries caused during the process.