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BARRIE EXAMINER, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1998
Unlocking the mystery of learning disabilities
By Donna Danyluk
Ashley Osinkowski is talking a little more these days. Hearing the 12-year-old chatter away puts a smile on her father's face. Ashley has Down's syndrome and often expressed herself with non-verbal traits common to the condition. Yet, after six months of treatment , her verbal skills have improved and her activity level increased. "Even her facial features seem to be changing," said Roman Osinkowski, the girl's father. "She doesn't look as Down's as she did before." Osinkowski credits Dr. Turner for his daughter's improvements.
Barb Gjos of Desbarats, east of Sault Ste. Marie can finally have a good night's sleep. It is a pleasure she believes Turner has made possible.
Gjos eight-year-old son Morgan is autistic and lived on three hours sleep a night. Gjos had to live on that amount of sleep as well, until she took her son to Turner. "The biggest change in Morgan was the change in his sleep pattern and for us that was enough of a change to keep us going back," said Gjos. "He now sleeps for six hours most nights of the week.
Turner's 15-year-old son, who suffered a head injury as a result of a BMX accident. "He started having problems in school. He couldn't concentrate and had trouble with reading," said Turner, "I started treatment on my son. Now he is doing very well since the bike accident. He's got very good eye and hand coordination's."
"In my waiting room, I see people like the 14-year-old boy clutching ribbons he has won at school. He used to have trouble with balance and co-ordination and now he's on the track team. That is what makes my job so rewarding," he said.
NORTHERN DAILY NEWS KIRKLAND LAKE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1997
North Bay chiropractor has new medical approach
One Grade 4 student came in with a Grade 1 reading level and now in Grade 8 he is reading at a Grade 10 level," he said.
"I can help so many different things that others are not getting success with," he said, explaining that the list includes headaches, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, dyslexia, hearing difficulties, migraines, head injuries, sinusitis and fibromyalgia and a number of autistic tendencies.
"I'm getting incredibly good results," he said. citing successes such as a 15-year-old New Liskeard boy who showed a noticeable improvement after the first session.
THE NORTH BAY NUGGET, THURSDAY, DEC. 5, 1991
Healing hands help kids with learning disabilities
By John Tollefsrud
Nugget Staff Writer
Until recently, Michael Gore, 14, of New Liskeard, wouldn't recognize words he read, and had to use a set square to do drawings and letters. Now, "He's been doing cartoon murals on his wall free-hand," said his father, Joseph Gore.
As he does with similar patients, Dr. Turner had Michael read selected passages before giving the treatment.
"He did an adjustment on him and he read fluently right away," Mr. Gore said. He added that his son's attitude has also improved since the treatments. This is consistent with Dr. Turner's own emphasis on instilling self-confidence in his patients. "The confidence must be re-established," he said."I've seen it work," said North Bay psychologist Jeff Phillips, who brought his 12-year-old son Caleb to Dr. Turner to treat a slight difficulty in reading and writing. "What the adjustments did was it allowed the ability to get acted out," Dr. Phillips said.
His son progressed from printing to writing after the treatments. "It was a lot neater, the spacing was changed," and he wrote along the designated lines. Dr. Phillips said his son is no longer frustrated by writing.
One special education student in the Tri-Towns has been helped by Dr. Turner, who works with school officials there and in North Bay."The child has manifested great improvement in reading," comprehension and mathematics, said Paul St. Cyr, director of education at the Temiskaming Roman Catholic Separate School Board.
Mary Gibson, a New Liskeard reflexologist, has four bright sons aged seven through eighteen who all have dyslexia. During Dr. Turner's most recent monthly visit to New Liskeard, she took three of them to his office.
"They could hardly struggle over the words and after the first treatment they could read the sentence," Mrs. Gibson said.
THE SUDBURY STAR, OCT. 12, 1994
Technique aims at helping kids
By Denise ST. Pierre
Star Staff Writer
Method involves manipulation of misaligned bones of the skull Walden resident Jane Kuhn credits Turner and the N.O.T. technique with helping her son, who is now in Grade 5, overcome reading problems. Kuhn has been treated with the technique to relieve headaches and other "aches and pains."
THE MANITOULIN EXPOSITOR, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1993
Chiropractor's technique corrects learning disabilities
By John Sikorski
Audrey Elliott of Little Current first took her seven-year-old son to Dr. Turner's Bay Wellness Centre in North Bay last February after she had read an article about the chiropractor, which appeared in a Sudbury newspaper. Her son had problems with short-term memory and his eyes would often shift when he would read; "Sometimes he couldn't see the spaces between the words he was reading," she said. "He was a good speller, but he couldn't read the words in sentences without a great deal of difficulty."
But after the initial consultation with Dr. Turner, the skull plate (that comprises the forehead) and the sphenoid bone, located behind the eyes, were carefully adjusted. Immediately, her son could discern the spaces between words and read more fluently, she said. "After his treatment he was catching onto words right away. And now he has much more confidence," said Ms Elliot.
Despite the treatment's success, NOT does not make a genius of a child with a learning disability, Dr. Turner pointed out. "All we can do is free up what's inside," he added. And not only children with learning interference can benefit from the treatment, but adults as well, he explained. "Age doesn't matter, it could just take a little longer," he said.
THE SUDBURY STAR, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1993
Treatment makes a difference
By Terry Pender
Star Staff Writer
Jane and Jeff Kuhn watched their son Adam flounder in school from the moment he stepped into his Grade 1 classroom.
Adam had lots of trouble reading, and consequently didn't feel good about himself. He didn't like school. He didn't participate. Adam needed a lot of one-on-one instruction that he couldn't get in a class of 25 to 30 children.
"He's in Grade 4 this year, and he was reading at a Grade 1 level. Most kids learn how to read in Grade 1 so that doesn't say much for him," says Jane. "He's always had a resource teacher, and extra work to do at home. There was never any improvement until this year."
As their son fell further and further behind in school, the Kuhns wondered what more they could do. About the middle of last October Adam's teacher suggested they take their son to see a chiropractor, Roger turner, who was helping children with learning difficulties.
Before Turner began the first treatment on Adam he had the boy read out loud in his office while his mother and father watched. As usual, Adam was all over the page," says his mother. Words he didn't know he couldn't sound out, and he often stumbled over the familiar ones.
Then Turner went to work. In a combination of awe, fascination and disbelief, the Kuhns watched Turner expertly manipulate the bones in Adam's skull. The parents could actually see the bones moving.
Before the treatment, the chiropractor had the Kuhns feel some of the bumps on their son's head. The bumps were caused by the misalignment of different skull bones. When properly aligned there are no bumps.
Turner then asked Adam to read for his parents again. They immediately noticed improvement. There was much less stumbling, and Adam didn't have to run his finger under the words to track the line.
"I was amazed, really," says Jane. "Driving home that day, I'll tell you, I was feeling my head to see if I had any bumps."
"Adam is doing better in school, which he now likes. He's even volunteering to read for the class. Comments on his latest report card were "excellent," and noted the improvements," says Jane.
"He's actually writing five page stories where five lines were a struggle before," says Jane." It's hard to do anything if you can't read. His self esteem has improved."
Adam now sees Turner on a weekly basis to make sure the bones of the skull remain in place.
A study of the Neural Organization Technique (N.O.T.) was conducted in England on 12 children with a variety of learning disabilities. The 12 children all showed significant improvements in intellectual functioning.
A British government publication says of that study's results: This study "and others indicate that there is a strong possibility that NOT can offer help. Parents and children deserve that it be fully investigated. There is a responsibility on all concerned with the well-being and education of children with learning disabilities and dyslexia to support the exploration of any new source of potential help, especially one that may extend their capacity to learn so that they may become better equipped to benefit from their education."