Category: Orientation – Alignment – Focus

Keyboarding Skills vs Cursive Writing

Posted on April 21, 2023March 28, 2023 by Sharon Roberts

Few 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.

Time Blindness

Posted on February 3, 2023February 3, 2023 by Sharon Roberts

I 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…

Orientation: To be, or not to be?

Posted on November 25, 2022October 30, 2022 by Cathie Geraci

If 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.

You can flip the switch!

Posted on November 18, 2022October 30, 2022 by Sharon Roberts

If 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.

Extraordinary Minds:

Posted on October 7, 2022May 27, 2023 by DDAI

This special video looks at the dyslexic mind and experience. The video combines live-action, interviews and animation.

Getting Orientated

Posted on September 16, 2022August 22, 2022 by Cathie Geraci

When 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.

Imagine a Pink Elephant

Posted on July 29, 2022July 24, 2022 by Cathie Geraci

What is in control of your intelligence? It is your mind’s eye. Your mind’s eye moves from its favorite, natural place to think, imagine, create and solve problems. To do this it must disorientate.

Orientation – Disorientation

Posted on May 20, 2022May 12, 2022 by Cathie Geraci

For me, prior to work with the Davis method for dyslexia, I thought of ‘orientation’ as the first days of

Roots of Dyslexia and ADHD

Posted on February 11, 2022April 2, 2022 by DDAI

Davis Facilitator Cala Dyck of Vancouver, Canada, created this 4-minute animated video to explain the causes of disorientation, and how

How Dyslexia Happens

Posted on December 24, 2021December 24, 2021 by DDAI

An animated video inspired by “How Dyslexia Happens” from the book The Gift of Dyslexia

Focus: Ritalin vs. Davis

Posted on December 10, 2021December 5, 2021 by Elena Nikulina

Recently I had a wonderful 10-year-old boy on an attention mastery program. Let’s say the boy’s name was Misha. Misha

My Time With Davis Dyslexia Correction Programme

Posted on April 23, 2021August 24, 2021 by Matthew Head

After reading the book The Gift of Dyslexia, I felt the overwhelming need/urge to get myself on a Davis Dyslexia Correction Programme.

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