When reading, the early books with pictures that add to the comprehension of the text will cause less trouble than chapter books later on. Guessing the words from reading the first letter, in connection with an image, often comes in handy. Being...
Dyslexia and the forming years “Once upon a time, a girl called Gretel and her brother called Hansel lived with their father and their stepmother in a little hut near the forest. The family was very poor and there was never enough food on the...
I have just looked through some notes I took at our last International Davis Symposium and came across these pearls of wisdom. "When you require something from someone who cannot do this, you are torturing him/her." I have noticed that the other...
That reminds me of just about every single one of my dyslexic clients. Why would anybody want to have a standardized mind anyway? If creative, intelligent and brilliant are an alternative, I take them any day over average. I have recently read a...
Q: I was recently told by a speech therapist that the Davis Method does not address all types of dyslexia. Is there a kind of dyslexia that the Davis Method cannot correct? A: Dyslexia can come with a wide variety of symptoms, which are often given...
Sally Gardner is a famous dyslexic author. Her teachers labelled her “unteachable”, an educational psychologist told her parents she was “word blind.” But when she was fourteen, something “clicked” and Gardner suddenly began devouring books. Now, a...
Does the condition change over time without any intervention? I don’t know if the word “condition” is helpful here, as again it suggests that we are dealing with a disease. Yes, there is dis-ease here, but not a pathological one. I have talked to...
My son’s teacher doesn't believe he is dyslexic. She thinks he has problems with his “working memory.” What does that mean? Working memory is usually measured by holding a limited amount of words/information in mind for a short period of time. As...
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