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This awesome mother supported her son as he went through his course with me. She booked him in wanting help with his self-regulation. The outcome was “a calm, reasonable boy – and happy.”
Continue readingNews & Views from Davis Dyslexia Association International
This awesome mother supported her son as he went through his course with me. She booked him in wanting help with his self-regulation. The outcome was “a calm, reasonable boy – and happy.”
Continue readingThis is the sixth of a seven-video series taken from an interview style Q & A session. In this video we discuss some of the hardships that dyslexic children and adults face in life.
Continue readingThis is the fifth of a seven-video series taken from an interview style Q & A session. In these videos we explore the experience of disorientation.
Continue readingI talk to a lot of tearful moms. Sometimes on the phone, sometimes in person. And sometimes they find my booth at a conference. As they share the struggles that their child has been facing, empathy fills my heart because I was there, too.
Continue readingFree Webinar: Navigating the challenges of your child’s learning difference can be very tough. First, a persistent problem; then, a diagnosis/label without a strategy; then, strategies that don’t bring a solution; and then… what?
Continue readingThis is the fourth of a seven-video series taken from an interview style Q & A session. In these videos we explore the experience of disorientation.
Continue readingI 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 readingI was 17 when I first watched Charly – a “fantasy” film about an intellectually disabled man who had undergone an experiment giving him the intelligence of a genius. Was this a foreshadowing of things to come?
Continue readingThe dictionary defines facilitate as “to make easier or less difficult: help foward”. A look at how and why a Davis program differs from teaching or tutoring.
Continue readingSam is nearly thirteen, and despite having been in an intensive, structured literacy programme twice a week for over six years, he only had 10-15 sight words. I was desperate and couldn’t think how to help him.
Continue readingThis is my personal experience with dyslexia. It should give you an idea of what it is like to be
Continue readingI walk into the classroom and sit down beside the child who’s on my caseload. We’re only supposed to work on handwriting, but she’s struggling in every way.
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