Ashen has found that learning disabled children are usually the most gifted, imaginative, creative and sensitive ones in a population of children. These children do not adapt well to the set learning structures that the teacher presents in the classrooms as it is often too rigid for them. Ahsen discovered that the manner which these sensitive minds process information is constricted in the classroom experience and makes them literally shut down and unable to pay attention Once these children's unique arid individual ways of learning are discovered Within a nourishing environment and strengthened through their own imagination, they develop enough confidence in their own mental abilities so that they can rejoin standard classroom activities and perform well. Ahsen's treatment uses a special system he originated called Eidetics. Eidetics works with eidetic images as tools to uncover a persons learning potential.
Eidetic images are like snapshots of a person's experience which are stored in the brain.
The snapshots which inhibit learning are removed and those that facilitate it are found and enhanced. The first step in the treatment is the administration of a diagnostic test which pinpoints the exact causes creating the learning disability in each child. Once the information in the test is found, students work with nature photographs engaging in a nurturing and pleasurable learning dialogue with the educator. In this dialogue and interaction, the person's learning obstructions, which were found in the initial diagnostic testing, are removed and are replaced with their own natural learning ability. Ahsen states, True learning is pleasurable.