reading disorder

Case Study in Reading Disorder: The Corrective Aspect of Craniosacral Fascial Therapy

10/02/2008

INTRODUCTION Developmental reading disorder, also called dyslexia, is a reading disability resulting from the inability to process graphic symbols.1 As many as forty percent of all early elementary school students in the United States have some initial difficulty learning to read.2 Nearly one-half of these students have significant problems and continuing hardships in school with reading fluency, comprehension, and spelling.2 Reading disorder is clearly more frequent in boys than in girls.3 No medical care is indicated for this condition, but appropriate referrals to special education and/or tutoring settings are needed.2 Another more corrective approach can be through the craniosacral fascial system, an integration of the craniosacral and fascial or connective tissue components.

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