‘Navigating Reading Difficulties and Dyslexia’

A Webinar Presentation by the Creator of the Cellfield Reading Intervention

There is little in the field of education that gives parents and teachers greater concern, than the child who is struggling to learn to read.  The cause of reading difficulties and approaches to supporting them has traditionally been an area of huge attention and great debate in educational research and an array of differing literacy programmes have been developed with the aim of supporting the struggling reader.  These programmes have had varying success.

In the last ten years, brain imaging technology and research into brain plasticity has provided a much clearer picture of the causes of reading difficulties.  This research, combined with conventional research led to the design of the Cellfield Programme.

What’s different about Cellfield?

Most children who fall behind in reading have reading difficulties which can be helped with phonics based tuition or regular reading support.

Some children have reading disorders, which have biological causes. They work much harder for little gain. This overloads their capacity to perform the big tasks of language and comprehension.

Cellfield restores this capacity through innovative use of brain plasticity research and modern technology. This is why average gains in decoding skills of two years and comprehension gains of one year are achievable by the Cellfield Intervention.

Why does Cellfield work?

Brain imaging research shows a 'bottleneck' in areas where 'cross-communications' between the auditory, visual and motor functions normally take place, close to the language centres.

Cellfield is the first to target these 'cross communications' through principles of brain plasticity research, by simultaneously activating visual, auditory and motor pathways. Cellfield's research based design also induces attention, expands working memory and provides novelty with reward.

Would you like to know more?

 Brain Train is offering a Webinar Workshop with the creator of the Cellfield programme, Dimitri Caplygin. In this presentation Dimitri will discuss research into brain plasticity, reading and dyslexia, and he will explain how modern computer technology has been used to enhance the treatment of children with reading difficulties.

 About Dimitri Caplygin

 Dimitri is an Australian of Russian birth.  He graduated from the University of New South Wales in Science and Engineering before embarking on a successful career in Research and Design in Australia and Singapore.  Dimitri won a number of design awards before embarking on the creation of the Cellfield programme.  Eleven years and many patents later, the Cellfield programme is being used by practitioners in major Western countries and is rapidly growing.