(I wrote this on Wednesday, but Blogger's server was poorly so I couldn't post)
Can you believe it? Only a day later and the notes I made last night make very little sense. I couldn’t write fast enough and now I can’t seem to remember most of it. I wish I could have recorded the presentation. I’ll try and remember as I go along!
Founder and chairman, Wynford Dore started off by asking members of the audience what the biggest problem they or their children had with learning difficulties. Answers came back such as Low Self Esteem, Frustration, Depression and Mood Swings, followed by clumsiness, poor short-term memory and concentration.
All these were found to be much more devastating than not being able to read or write properly. And yet that is all Mr Dore wanted to do initially. His daughter had attempted suicide and he needed to find a solution to her reading difficulties soon.
But he never thought that the exercises his research team produced would also help in so many other areas. We heard from a young boy, Josh and his Mum, Louise, about how the Dore programme not only improved his school work, but had improved his confidence and co-ordination so much that he was now the third highest in the UK in his age group at Taekwondoo.
And excelling in sport as well as in the classroom is quite typical in many children on the Dore Programme. Josh wasn’t an isolated case. This appears to have been a fortunate ‘side effect’ of people who had the drug free treatment!
Mr Dore also described how the working memory in a person with learning difficilties is so much more diminished than in a normal person. And how affected people are often thought of as lazy, when the opposite is true, because they have to work so much harder just to retain simple information.
He said the bigger the library, the busier the librarian. The more creative you are, the more unorganised information in the brain, the busier the cerebellum, that processes the information.
Later the cost issue came up. Around £2,000 for a years treatment, or £90 per month for two years on installments. He expressed his frustration at his campaigning for free treatment for all school children falling on deaf ears within the government. Everyone he speaks to says ‘we need proof’, but they want to look at this proof on a piece of paper in less than 10 seconds; they’re not prepared to take time visiting the centre or speaking to parents, headmasters and professors who have seen first hand how amazing the results are.
When someone questioned the cost, Wynford Dore said that and if anyone feels that the treatment hasn’t worked, there is a full money back guarantee. No-one has ever needed it though.
Professor David Reynolds told us that he was very cynical to begin with and wanted to see results, whether or not the programme worked. He was not only pleased with the positive results, but very impressed to discover that the results were permanent, and that the children who were furthest behind to begin with, caught up the most. In fact they were performing better than their age peers who had never had learning difficulties.
Aha, there you go – I obviously took in more than I thought - I’ll probably think of more things tomorrow!
All the speakers had plenty of time for everyone with questions at the end, and Trevor Davies, the headmaster from Solihull, was very helpful in tracking down Dr Roy Rutherford to answer my questions.
So the conclusion for me personally was; I need to do the programme as soon as possible! But it’s a Catch 22 situation; I’m trying to make a living with Online Marketing so I can pay for the programme, but I need to do the programme so that I can easily learn Online Marketing!
Thanks to the two mums from Rhwbina, Jane and Kim who kindly gave me a lift home!
www.dore.co.uk
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