Disorientation, Double Vision, and Davis
I brought my son to see our Davis Facilitator when he was nine. My son did the week-long intensive program four months ago and we have been working on the homework since then.
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I brought my son to see our Davis Facilitator when he was nine. My son did the week-long intensive program four months ago and we have been working on the homework since then.
Continue readingWhen I think to myself I do not think with an inner dialogue. My thoughts don’t sound like words until I translate them. When I want to talk or write, I have to slow down to do it.
Continue readingI never really began to fully comprehend auditory processing issues until one day I was sitting in a very busy coffee shop with my son. My son remarked about the song playing way off in the background, which I strained to hear.
Continue readingMany neurodivergent people have skills that fluctuate from day to day. This comes often in IEP meetings that I’m sitting in.
Continue readingFew people still write with pen and paper, let alone in cursive script. However, researchers believe that cursive writing is important to cognitive development and the brain’s sensory motor region.
Continue readingI could never warm up to Alice in Wonderland. It was too crazy, too frantic. Time in Wonderland seemed troubled; topsy turvy. Characters rushed around and a sense of haste…
Continue readingImagine this scenario: A 7-year-old with fine motor difficulties wakes up in the morning. He struggles to dress, because the clothes he wants to wear have buttons that are too small.
Continue readingI am pretty sure that Ron Davis was the first person to call dyslexia a gift, when he published his book The Gift of Dyslexia in 1994. Nowadays, many people talk about dyslexia’s gifts, but what is it?
Continue readingIf being orientated permits you to perceive accurately the facts of reality, wouldn’t it just be best to stay orientated all the time? Well, no.
Continue readingIf you think of your brain as a power grid, there are billions of pathways or roads, lighting up every time you think, feel or do something. Every time we think in a certain way, practice a particular task, or feel an emotion, we strengthen a road.
Continue readingWhen you want to perceive the true facts of reality for listening, looking, or remembering something in the outside environment, there is a best place for the mind’s eye to be.
Continue readingAnd how some researchers are starting to get things right (2022 update). Dyslexic differences reflect underlying mental strengths, not brain defects.
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