A treatment that claimed to correct various learning and neurological disorders. Neural Organization Technique was developed by Carl A. Ferreri, a New York practitioner of chiropractic medicine and of applied kinesiology. Ferreri suggested that such conditions as dyslexia, learning disability, minimal brain dysfunction, and related conditions that become noticeable during school years were caused by the misalignment of certain bones of the skull. He believed that the misalignment could be corrected by physically adjusting the bones.
Ferreri made his proposal for correcting these disorders in two books: Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities Cured (1984) and Breakthrough for Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities (with R. B. Wainwright, 1985). Ferreri and Wainwright argued that as we breathe the bones of the skull move because of a relationship of connective tissue bands. He suggested, for example, that dyslexia is caused by a faulty motion of the sphenoid bone (the center skull bone) and one of the temporal bones. Other conditions are caused by the faulty movement of other specific bones. The technique advocated manual manipulation of the cranial bones, as well as the more familiar manipulation of the spine.
A treatment that claimed to correct various learning and neurological disorders. Neural Organization Technique was developed by Carl A. Ferreri, a New York practitioner of chiropractic medicine and of applied kinesiology. Ferreri suggested that such conditions as dyslexia, learning disability, minimal brain dysfunction, and related conditions that become noticeable during school years were caused by the misalignment of certain bones of the skull. He believed that the misalignment could be corrected by physically adjusting the bones.