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Stouffville
's Dr. Turner featured on Dini Petty
Helping children overcome
learning disabilities has earned a local doctor an interview on CFTO's
The Dini Petty Show, to be aired Friday.
Dr. Allen Turner,
owner of the Stouffville Chiropractic Health Centre on Main Street has
been invited to talk to Dini Petty during a taping Thursday, Feb. 28.
"It's
incredible how word (of this treatment for learning disabilities such as
dyslexia) is getting around," Turner said.
He added that special
education programs from surrounding regions have been interested in his
progress, while a rising number of parents, from as far away as Denver,
Colo., are bringing their children to Stouffville for treatment. The show
will be aired March 1 on CFTO Channel 9, Cable 8. Turner said Petty will
interview some of the parents of children he has worked with over the years.
The cameras will
then focus on Turner, who will tell thousands of viewers how his specialized treatment can turn a child's life around for the better.
He has been working
with children for five years now and has had some "great results" - in
some cases a "remarkable turnaround."
He said while kids
with learning disabilities are sometimes perceived as having low overall
intelligence, the very opposite is often the case.
The ones who are able
to cope at all are usually intelligent, which is proven by their ability
to cope with the short-circuiting of the brain and nervous system that
causes the disability.
"The
best results usually come from bright kids. They're actually smart but
something holds them back from reaching their full learning potential,"
Turner told The Tribune.
The treatment in its
basic form organizes the nervous system.
"Sometimes
there is an interference in the nervous system that blocks some aspect
of learning," Turner added.
One common learning
problem children can be straddled with is the mysterious dyslexia - a disturbance
of messages sent to the brain.
One of Turner's first
success stories is the 1986 case of Meghan Russell who was six at the time
of treatment. She was suffering from dyslexia.
Meghan was unable
to learn letters and numbers, she had a hard time concentrating, and her
condition was affecting her ability to relate to other kids.
Convinced her child
wasn't a slow learner, Meghan's mother turned to Turner for help.
He soon found out
a fall Meghan suffered at the age of three had caused the bones in her
skull to shift, knocking the vertebrae in her neck out of alignment. Treatment
resulted in immediate improvement and after six months she was tested and
found to be above her grade level in all subjects. This girl wasn't a slow
learner, Dr. Turner discovered.
She was just stuck
at one level because of a fall.
His treatment works
in three steps: acupuncture, which sends energy channels throughout the
body; kinesiology, which re-organizes the nervous system; and cranial moulding,
which moves the skull bones.
Dr. Turner's achievements
and methods will be discussed in more detail during his talk with Dini
Petty Friday.
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