Time Blindness
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…
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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…
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 readingThis special video looks at the dyslexic mind and experience. The video combines live-action, interviews and animation.
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 readingWhat 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.
Continue readingFor me, prior to work with the Davis method for dyslexia, I thought of ‘orientation’ as the first days of
Continue readingDavis Facilitator Cala Dyck of Vancouver, Canada, created this 4-minute animated video to explain the causes of disorientation, and how
Continue readingAn animated video inspired by “How Dyslexia Happens” from the book The Gift of Dyslexia
Continue readingRecently I had a wonderful 10-year-old boy on an attention mastery program. Let’s say the boy’s name was Misha. Misha
Continue readingAfter reading the book The Gift of Dyslexia, I felt the overwhelming need/urge to get myself on a Davis Dyslexia Correction Programme.
Continue readingThe sweaty palms…the flip-flopping stomach… the brain-fog… reading questions repeatedly. I wonder how many of you can identify with test-taking anxiety. Even years after being in school, some of us still have nightmares about taking tests in school.
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