Sabina Schmidt was born and raised in Austria. She had a learning disability that was suspected to be dyslexia in her native German language. Sabina, the daughter of a school principal, struggled academically as a child and felt even more pressure on her to be a good student. By the time she reached Mittelschule (age 9 -18) middle school, her father instructed her to not pursue Hochschule (age 18 – 21) high school because of her poor academic abilities. She went on to complete Hochschule after her mother intervened and insisted Sabina complete her studies. Sabina came to the United States many years ago and wanted to obtain a college degree. Attempts at this had been unsuccessful over the years. Sabina would start classes, become overwhelmed, become stressed, and not complete the required work. Sabina had been in therapy for years with little or no results. Her last therapist felt that something in Sabina’s brain wiring was causing blockages in so many areas of her life and suggested she contact me to assist her.
Sabina was the classic Sensory Integration Disorder child. She had an undiagnosed vision-tracking problem that made it appear as though she was dyslexic. A common belief is that a child will “outgrow” the disability. Undiagnosed sensory processing issues, such as vision tracking weakness demonstrate themselves in different ways—Sabina, now an adult, was diagnosed with ADHD and was depressed. Increasing Sabina’s stress was the loss of a sibling and after many years could not process the emotions around the loss. She was emotionally paralyzed.
After testing in English, it was noted that Sabina had a visual closure problem, low auditory memory, low vocabulary, low verbal relations abilities, and low extended comprehension abilities. Sabina was convinced these scores would be much worse in her native German language. I contacted a SOI™ trainer in Germany and obtained a German SOI test. After completing the SOI German test, Sabina was gifted in all Advanced Reading Subtests in her Native Language. Our work together focused on correcting a vestibular imbalance, a pons processing issue, as well as mental midline processing issues. Tracking issues were corrected and suddenly those dyslexic symptoms were eliminated. Sabina was concerned about her heavy German accent here in the US and she started working with The Listening Program ™Sound Therapy program to train her auditory processing in hopes to lessen her accent. This also assisted Sabina in training her listening and helped to increase her processing speed. She also started working from her customized SOI™ workbook to develop her low abilities in English— and to enhance her work skills and abilities. Sabina and I continued to keep in touch regarding her progress and she eventually moved back to Austria to return to University. In our final communication, she continued to thrive and was very happy with the results she has gotten with the Power Tools for Learning Program.
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