Category: Education & Career

A Key to Learning: Connecting

Posted on September 18, 2020September 18, 2020 by Patrick Courtois

In addition to my Davis® Dyslexia Correction practice, I regularly teach supportive math lessons to students between sixth and 12th

The Dress Rehearsal

Posted on August 28, 2020August 29, 2020 by Patrick Courtois

A Very Special Time In this unprecedented period in human history, children and students of all ages have never experienced

Phonological dyslexia? Not so much….

Posted on August 21, 2020September 20, 2020 by Abigail Marshall

Recent research studies cast doubt on the role of phonological processing difficulties in dyslexia. One study, from the UK, suggests

Finding Fluency

Posted on August 7, 2020September 19, 2020 by Abigail Marshall

All I wanted was for my son to become a reader. I wanted him to be able to read easily and automatically, without effort.

Educational Bias and Dyslexic Learners

Posted on June 26, 2020August 7, 2020 by Abigail Marshall

Researchers know that dyslexics learn to read differently, but schools continue to focus on children’s weaknesses rather than their strengths.

To Know or to Master? That is the question….

Posted on June 12, 2020August 8, 2020 by Patrick Courtois

Help, I forgot everything! I regularly have children who tell me that they have “forgotten everything” about lessons they have

Parent as teacher and a dyslexic child. WHAT TO DO?

Posted on May 8, 2020May 8, 2020 by Anita Chmara

This is not an easy situation for many of us. Children in the coronavirus era still have dyslexia, but now the parent is responsible for how the child handles school duties.

The Benefits of Humour

Posted on April 3, 2020March 30, 2020 by Hayley Butcher

Laughter is infectious. Sometimes I don’t even know what a person is laughing at, yet it makes me burst out

I want to Unlearn Dyslexia

Posted on March 27, 2020March 23, 2020 by Patrick Courtois

This is the program objective that my young client gave herself: unlearn dyslexia.” Her answer is relevant and lucid: yes, dyslexia is the result of learning.

Fish Don’t Climb Trees – A different take on dyslexia

Posted on March 20, 2020August 8, 2020 by Abigail Marshall

Davis Facilitator Sue Hall has updated her book: “Fish Don’t Climb Trees: A Whole New Look at Dyslexia”. Sue understands dyslexia from the inside out – as a dyslexic person with vivid recollections of frustrations experienced in elementary school, as a parent who searched for and found a solution

The Sociology of Dyslexia

Posted on March 13, 2020March 1, 2020 by Hayley Butcher

Dyslexia is often considered purely in a medical or biological sense. The social model also explores social, cultural and political concerns.

How does your child think?

Posted on March 6, 2020February 29, 2020 by DDAI

A short video about the differences between word-based and visual thinking, produced by Davis Facilitator Brenda Baird.