Why Tyrannosaurus but Not If?
“I don’t understand it: he can read tyrannosaurus, but he gets stuck on if!” This question from the mother of a dyslexic child reflects a commonly encountered and paradoxical...
When things don’t come easy
We often post reports of dramatic reading improvement with Davis methods, but sometimes a child faces a complex array of barriers. Axel Gudmundsson, of GiftedDyslexic in South Africa, writes: I worked with an...
A Fictional Facilitator – Book Review
Christmas on Cougar Mountain by Nancy Radke (Book 10 in the Sisters of Spirit series) This is a fictional story about Zoey, a Davis Dyslexia Correction Facilitator, who lives and...
Two New Books from a Davis Facilitator
Davis Facilitator Barbara Hoi of Sydney, Australia has recently published two books sure to delight parents and teachers. The first book is called The Right Brain for the Right...
Video Conference with a Davis Facilitator
Davis Facilitator Beth Shier explains options for kids with dyslexia and ADHD
Keep it positive!
“When I take a program with a child, almost 40% of my effort goes towards coaching the parents not to violate the child’s control and responsibility and how...
Study supports Davis Symbol Mastery
A recently published case study documents the progress of a fourth grade special education student who successfully used a modified form of Davis Symbol Mastery to improve spelling skills....
Three Parts to a Word – an Explanation from Brain Research
Davis Symbol Mastery — the modeling of words in clay – is based on the principle that each word has three parts: what it means, what it looks like,...
Super Powers of Dyslexia
“Dyslexia is a super power,” my young friend and client Chase told me the other day. “Dyslexia is a good thing because I have fun with it. I invent...
Procrastination…..
The Grammerly blog has a wonderful article about procrastination. They start by identifying the primary reasons for procrastination: overwhelm confusion boredom lack of motivation distraction They offer some tips...
Just right!
The other day one of the grandsons and I were in the car. Whizzing along we sang, “HI HO, HI HO, it’s off to work we go”, you know,...
Those trigger words!
Research shows that the most common word found in English-language books is “#8221; Matjaž Perc at the University of Maribor in Slovenia analyzed data taken from million books published between...