Yesterday, two minutes after I dropped my son off IN FRONT OF HIS SCHOOL, I received a phone call from his school saying my son had fallen and hit his head. How? He said he tripped on the sidewalk. Because of all the current concerns about concussions, I took my son to the pediatrician to have him checked out (he was fine), and he rested for the remainder of the day.
Interestingly, during a web search about something unrelated, today I came across information on the web about a doctor, Harold Levinson, who for decades has been treating children with dyslexia, dysgraphia, ADHD and related dysfunctions under the theory that these symptoms are related to a type of dizziness or motion sickness, and can be treated with inner-ear enhancing medications in combination with other treatments.
Levinson theorizes that certain disorders "are due to a simple signal-scrambling disturbance of inner ear (and cerebellar) origin, In other words, the inner-ear and its supercomputer, the cerebellum, act as a 'fine-tuner' for all motor (balance/coordination and rhythmic) signals leaving the brain and all sensory and related cognitive signals entering it. As a result, normal thinking brains will have difficulty processing the scrambled or distorted signals received." (dyslexianonline.com)
I am not sure of the efficacy of this theory, but it sounds like an interesting one to explain my son, who struggles with many of the things Levinson discusses including balance, coordination, dysgraphia, spelling, and processing speed, and who spent the first year and a half of his life with middle ear (not inner ear) infections. Is there a relationship? I don't know. Something new to consider.
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