The Benefits of Humour
Laughter is infectious. Sometimes I don’t even know what a person is laughing at, yet it makes me burst out
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Category: Education & Career
I want to Unlearn Dyslexia
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.
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Fish Don’t Climb Trees – A different take on dyslexia
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
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The Sociology of Dyslexia
Dyslexia is often considered purely in a medical or biological sense. The social model also explores social, cultural and political concerns.
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How does your child think?
A short video about the differences between word-based and visual thinking, produced by Davis Facilitator Brenda Baird.
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Learning: A Pleasure or a Chore?
Very young children are hungry for everything they can learn. But sometimes this thirst for knowledge dries up, the child
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“Evidence Based” — But does it work?
Parents seeking help for their dyslexic kids usually have one question uppermost in their minds: will it work?
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I Am Dyslexia (Animated Film)
This award-winning film by Norwegian artist and educator Mads Johan Øgaard, inspired by his own struggles and feelings as a
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Fitting Davis Tools into an IEP
A parent asks how to include Davis techniques within a school-based IEP.
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Is your child a “nonresponder”?
What happens when a child cannot learn to read through phonics? Educational researchers have a word for those children: they
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Spelling Help after a Davis Program
A parent of a second-grader writes: My son had a big gain in reading after completing his Davis program week,
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Advice from a Literacy Problem Solver
In this 30 minute interview, author and educator Lois Letchford shares her insights and unique approach to helping dyslexic schoolchildren
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