Neurodivergent Empathy Program

 Maybe we can come up with virtual reality program that simulates neurodivergence in neurotypical people

 

 

Using virtual reality glasses - visual processing problems

headphones - auditory processing problems simulator

sensory gloves with biofeedback interaction to experience fine motor skill problems

moving platform to simulate gross motor skill problems

 

A 3Dimensional Screen with rapid moving stimuli to simulate issues with disorientation that can lead to confusion with directions as well as can lead to difficulty with body movements. Very Bright Screen to simulate problems with hypersensitivity to light

 

Symptoms of neurodivergent issues

 

Reading

 

* Memory instability for letters, words, or numbers.

* A tendency to skip over or scramble letters, words, and sentences.

* A poor, slow, fatiguing reading ability prone to compensatory head tilting, near-far focusing, and finger pointing.

* Reversals of letters such as b and d, words such as saw and was, and numbers such as 6 and 9 or 16 and 61.

* Letter and word blurring, doubling, movement, scrambling, omission, insertion, size change, etc.

* Poor concentration, distractibility, light sensitivity (photophobia), tunnel vision, delayed visual and phonetic processing, etc.

 

Writing

 

* Messy, poorly angulated, or drifting handwriting prone to size, spacing, and letter-sequencing errors.

 

Spelling, Math, Memory, and Grammar

 

* Memory instability for spelling, grammar, math, names, dates, and lists, or sequences such as the alphabet, the days of the week and months of the year, and directions.

 

Speech

 

* Speech disorders such as slurring, stuttering, minor articulation errors, poor word recall, and auditory-input and motor-output speech lags.

 

Direction

 

* Right/left and related directional uncertainty.

 

Time

 

* Delay in learning to tell time.

 

Concentration and Activity

 

* Impaired concentration, distractibility, hyperactivity, or overactivity

 

Behavior, Temper, or Impulse disturbances

 

Balance and Coordination

 

* Difficulties with balance and coordination functions, i.e., walking, running, skipping, hopping, tying shoelaces, and buttoning buttons.

 

Psychosomatics

 

* Difficulties with headaches, nausea, dizziness, vomiting, motion sickness, abdominal complaints, excessive sweating, and bed-wetting.

 

Self-esteem

 

* Feeling stupid, ugly, incompetent, brainless.

 

Phobias and Related Mood and Obsessive/Compulsive Disorders

 

* Fears of the dark, heights, getting lost, going to school.

* Fear or the avoidance of various balance, coordination, sports, and motion-related activities.

* Mood disturbances.

* Obsessions and compulsions.

http://www.levinsonmedical.com/information/syndrome.html

 

DYSMETRIC DYSLEXIA AND DYSPRAXIA

Hypothesis and Study

http://www.levinsonmedical.com/evidence/papers/ddd_study.pdf?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=4783406&dopt=Abstract

 

 

DYSMETRIC DYSLEXIA AND DYSPRAXIA:

synopsis of a continuing research project

http://www.levinsonmedical.com/evidence/papers/ddd_synopsis.pdf

 

 

COMPENSATORY MECHANISMS IN CV-DYSFUNCTION,DYSMETRIC DYSLEXIA AND DYSPRAXIA

http://www.levinsonmedical.com/evidence/papers/comp_mech_cv.pdf

 

THE CEREBELLAR-VESTIBULAR BASIS OF LEARNING DISABILITIES IN CHILDREN,ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS:

Hypothesis and study

http://www.levinsonmedical.com/evidence/papers/cv_basis_ld.pdf

 

 

THE DIAGNOSTIC VALUE OF CEREBELLAR-VESTIBULAR TESTS IN DETECTING LEARNING DISABILITIES,DYSLEXIA,AND ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER

http://www.levinsonmedical.com/evidence/papers/cv_tests.pdf

 

This is scientific papers that show that anxiety,mood disorder,and phobias aren't necessarily psychological(especially involving emotional weakness,a dysfunctional childhood) but could be stemming from cerebellar-vestibular dysfunction

 

A CEREBELLAR-VESTIBULAR EXPLANATION FOR FEARS/PHOBIAS:

Hypothesis and study

http://www.levinsonmedical.com/evidence/papers/cv_fears.pdf

 

 

THE CEREBELLAR-VESTIBULAR PREDISPOSITION TO ANXIETY DISORDERS

http://www.levinsonmedical.com/evidence/papers/cv_predis_anxiety.pdf

 

ABNORMAL OPTOKINETIC AND PERCEPTUAL SPAN PARAMETERS IN CEREBELLAR VESTIBULAR DYSFUNCTION AND RELATED ANXIETY DISORDERS

http://www.levinsonmedical.com/evidence/papers/optokinetic_cv_anxiety.pdf

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