That is answered by the old addage, "never say never" You do not know what the future holds! We are only given today! So faith and hope which are of God are involved in a request that He would bless us with Science students that are enlightened to find such a cure.And since God has answered such prayers before, we can hope He will do so with this request! We can't know His thoughts, we can only hope, but ask that it be His will and not ours, for we do not know what is best.
2007-03-26 17:22:45
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answered by Faerie loue 5
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Well, at the neuroscience conference my mom went to last weekend, she heard a presenation of a study that found that computer programs that present spoken language with extra long consonants can significantly increase reading rate in dyslexic children. They idea is that it's giving them additional exposure to certain components of speech that they have trouble recognizing, and that allows them to process written language better as well. The theory there is that people with dyslexia process incoming information significantly slower than the general poplation, which results in decreased phonetic awareness because the phonyms go by too quickly to learn as well as the general population can, and that ultimately leads to problems with reading requires the ability to break the word into components (i.e. letters). Of course, that doesn't address the issues with other types of wrote memorize that could at least partly result from slow processing of sensory input (although personally I don't think this is really the case), but it is something.
While I have no idea how reliable that study even is (I believe that the colored glasses cure has also be presented at various conferences, and I don't have anything to go on here but my mom's account of the basic premise of the treatment), it's still an example of the kind of treatments that I think are ultimately most likely to work.
It's unlikely that dyslexia is the result of a "chemical inbalance," like many psychatric conditions are. What that term vaguely describes are conditions where the primary cause, or at least a major contributing factor, involves one or more neurotransmitter system that's either over active or under active. Those conditions typically respond, or at least could in theory respond, to medication.
Dyslexia (in my opinion, at least) is more likely to be caused by what could be described essentially as wiring issues. What I mean by that is that rather than having too much or not enough of a particular neurotransmitter or receptor, people with dyslexia have pathways of neurons that are missing, abnormally weak or strong, in the wrong place, or otherwise messed up. So treatment is more a matter of forming new synaptic connections rather than altering the levels of specific chemical compounds. That's best accomplished with things more along the lines of repeated exposures to specific sounds like I mentioned earlier, rather than with medication.
There's a strong genetic component to dyslexia. However, it's likely that the abnormalities are already present at birth, so appart from detecting the genetic abnormality early in fetal development and correcting it (which we're very far from being able to do), treatment would have to focus on correcting the developmental abnormalities that are already present.
I don't know nearly as much about dyscalculia since I don't have that one myself, so I don't have any specific examples for it, but I think that the general idea is pretty much the same as for dyslexia in that it would be developmental rather than neurochemical.
2007-03-28 03:23:48
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answered by EmilyRose 7
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Even the detals of learning disorder are not clearly understood. A cure is not seen in immediate future.
Like Sue B Iam also hopeful
2007-03-27 00:23:12
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answered by J.SWAMY I ఇ జ స్వామి 7
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