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Luke Waites Child Development Center and Its Impact on Dyslexia
from: Maxx Family LifeLuke Waites is an American physician who specialized in pediatric and child neurology training. He was born and raised in the state of Mississippi (USA). He completed his medical education in the University of Tennessee. After gaining fellowship at the National Hospital in Queen's Square in London in 1957 he then embarked on teaching in Oklahoma Medical School. In the course of his teaching tenure he started evaluating children with dyslexia. He then was considered by many to have pioneered in studying this learning disability that affects a considerable number of people.
Dyslexia is a disability in the learning process that affects a person's reading and writing skills, short-term memory, basic arithmetic, sequencing and thought organization, language, and visual and auditory processing. The cause of dyslexia is primarily genetic, probably inherited from generation to generation within families.
It may vary from mild to severe levels. People afflicted with dyslexia are usually creative and highly intelligent people. Some famous people who are said to be dyslexic are Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Ann Bancroft, Pierre Curie, Erin Brockovich, Agatha Christie, Henry Ford, William Hewlett, Leonardo da Vinci, Andy Warhol, Hans Christian Andersen, Tom Cruise, and the list goes on and on.
In the early decades of the twentieth century dyslexia was considered by many physicians to be a myth. But further studies show that dyslexia is purely neurological (which means it affects the nervous system) and not because of laziness or apathy towards learning, low level of intellectual abilities, or poor education. These factors may have an impact in learning skills but they do not indicate that a person is dyslexic.
Diagnosis of dyslexia requires a qualified diagnostician's expertise. The cause of dyslexia is primarily genetic, probably inherited from generation to generation within families. Additionally, dyslexia is not considered a disease. It is just a learning difficulty that needs special attention of experts, moral support of families and friends, and the right educational program.
Dr. Luke Waites' efforts have paved way for the development of other researches on dyslexia and have discovered methods that can correct the disability's impact on afflicted children's academic progress. Dr. Waites was believed to be a pioneer in the development of therapeutic strategies in helping dyslexic children. Applying the right therapy in correcting dyslexia can help the dyslexic unleash their talents that have been hidden by the learning disability, which in turn giving them confidence and helping them reach their goals in life.
His legacy is now being continued through the erected Luke Waites Child Development Center (LWCDC) at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in 1995. The LWCDC provides educational assessments and evaluations for dyslexic children and adults. The center run tests on the different abilities of a person's intellect, speech and communication, phonological processing and academic skills with the stress on reading skills. Moreover, the center also conducts more researches to understand more of what other things might lay behind learning disorders.
Researches are not only carried out in discovering more about these disorders but they also find more advance and effective ways of correcting them. The center also provides the best health professionals that collaborate in helping client and family needs by providing them with consultations in planning services for the client. Thus, this promotes understanding and collaboration between the family, client, and the health professionals.
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