My daughter Layla started facing problems in reading in grade one. She was doing poorly at school, so I took her to various specialists. I took her to an occupational therapist who said she did not have good eye coordination. Later I took her to an educational therapist who said she needed more attention from her dad, (my husband), who travels extensively because of his work. I also took her to a visiting optometrist from Denmark who advised on a weird protocol.
Finally I went to Beirut, where they did comprehensive cognitive testing and found my daughter’s Auditory and Visual memory is slightly weak, and that she has mild ADD. I then took her to a speech therapist for a year but found she was...