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Headteacher

• looking for proven methods to engage all your pupils?

• ones that your staff can easily integrate with existing methods?

• reach those pupils who have yet to overcome their literacy and numeracy challenges, and emotional and behavioural too?

• And support the parents and the wider community if you wish?

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Training or Human Resource Director / Manager

• searching for a credible, value solution?

• to support employees you know have more to give or are ready for promotion but keep bumping into the same brick wall?

• a solution resulting in increased productivity, profits, loyalty. One which stands you in good stead with The Equality Act 2010?

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Parent

• whose child is finding school more and more challenging?

• is increasingly frustrated, switches off or becoming a distraction or disturbance in class?

• who may have recently suffered bereavement or a split in the family and it's now impacting on their learning?

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Coming For Yourself

• who from an early age has had difficulty with English and maths?

• who thought this was part of your biological make up?

• who might be having to look for work and has poor literacy and numeracy skills?

• looking for promotion but needing to improve these skills?

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Professional working in Social Care or Charity

• seeking to help your clients overcome literacy and numeracy challenges?

• move on from incidents or traumas that arrested their learning development?

• working with those who have been in prison looking to build a new life and career? 80% face literacy challenges!

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September 2013    

Here at Invest Inside Yourself, Andrew Bendefy has for a long time drawn a link between individuals diagnosed with ADD or ADHD, the high % who have literacy/numeracy challenges and the reason why these individuals simply aren't listening when it comes to phonics and rote repetition. The following scientific research now appears nearly 8 eight years after Andrew started work to address this.

Inner ear disorders 'linked to hyperactivity'

Inner-ear problems could be a cause of hyperactive behaviour.

A study on mice, published in Science, said such problems caused changes in the brain that led to hyperactivity.

It could lead to the development of new targets for behaviour disorder treatments, the US team says.

A UK expert said the study's findings were "intriguing" and should be investigated further.

Behavioural problems such as ADHD are usually thought to originate in the brain.

But scientists have observed that children and teenagers with inner-ear disorders - especially those that affect hearing and balance - often have behavioural problems.

The researchers in this study suggest inner-ear disorders lead to problems in the brain which then also affect behaviour.

Gene mutation:

The team from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York noticed some mice in the lab were particularly active - constantly chasing their tails.

They were found to be profoundly deaf and have disorders of the inner ear - of both the cochlea, which is responsible for hearing, and the vestibular system, which is responsible for balance.

The researchers found a mutation in the Slc12a2 gene, also found in humans.

Blocking the gene's activity in the inner ears of healthy mice caused them to become increasingly active.

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The following interview with Mr Bendefy

was recorded and aired several years ago on