Dyslexia Q&A: The Gift of Dyslexia
This is the fourth of a seven-video series taken from an interview style Q & A session. In these videos we discuss Ron Davis, the Davis Method, programs, dyslexia as well as other learning difficulties.
News & Views from Davis Dyslexia Association International
This is the fourth of a seven-video series taken from an interview style Q & A session. In these videos we discuss Ron Davis, the Davis Method, programs, dyslexia as well as other learning difficulties.
Carl Nigi is a licensed Davis Facilitator in Ottawa, Ontario. After successfully overcoming his own dyslexia through a Davis program, he chose to become a Facilitator so he could help others experience the same success.
This awesome mother supported her son as he went through his course with me. She booked him in wanting help with his self-regulation. The outcome was “a calm, reasonable boy – and happy.”
This is the final installment of a seven-video series from an interview style Q & A session. This video is focused on how parents can better understand and help their kids.
This is the sixth of a seven-video series taken from an interview style Q & A session. In this video we discuss some of the hardships that dyslexic children and adults face in life.
When my clients arrive with visual sensory disorientations it can be a result of life stress. Or simply that they are naturally strong visual learners in a world of words where confusion causes these symptoms.
The seven most common sources of confusion for children, and how to address them.
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Hi i’m Amer. Even as a dyslexic, i’m a humble and respectful admirer of people who attempt to learn non-native, natural languages, including the global language of English. In my view, it is essentially important for more and more people around the world, to realize that dyslexia is more than a monolingual issue in the English language. In fact, i’m convinced that the challenges of dyslexia could occur in every non-native, natural language used on our planet.
Indeed,, the physiopathology, or the internal, physical changes which happen as a result of a condition, in this case, of dyslexia, varies widely across various and diverse natural languages. As an example, being dyslexic in developmental (early stage of) Chinese can be much more complicated than being dyslexic in English. That is due to a fact that dyslexia in English is a phonological disorder. Whereas dyslexia in developmental Chinese is not only a phonological disorder, but also a more challenging visuo-spatial disorder!
That is, each character in Chinese actually conveys more than just a sound. Each Chinese character has a meaning to it, and each of those Chinese characters are written with different intricate marks within a square space or configuration. In other words, to be able to pronounce Chinese characters, words, and sentences correctly, a Speaker of Developmental Chinese must have proper visuo-spatial ability.
Folks, I would be absolutely honored to share more content about these and other aspects of dyslexia! I would be highly honored to get your great feedback about my comments on this fascinating field of dyslexia. Please let me know about your assessment of my comments on dyslexia, so far!
Sincerely, Aner
A very interesting take; I hadn’t before thought of how dyslexia could have differing impacts on other cultures and languages. Thank you for your insight sir.
Sir, thank you so very much, for your brilliant analysis: for acknowledging the phenomenal actuality that, indeed, dyslexia is such a prevalent issue, due to its profound impact on millions of people of differing, diverse cultures and tongues (or languages) around the world! Please take care, Sir!!
Hello. It is my vision to attempt to continuously raise awareness, to help arouse stronger admiration, interest, and hope among people, with respect to the timelessly relevant field of dealing with dyslexia, more and more effectively! In my view, such a worthy and much-needed endeavor can be attainable, by reaching out to more and more people around the planet. That endeavor is achievable, due to the fascinating and promising advent and development of Online, wireless technology of our current Cyber-age!
This brief yet all-important composition is a preliminary and introductory step, in describing my goal to attempt to play a basic yet pivotal role in untangling dyslexia!
Sincerely, Amer
Hello Amer
Thank you for your comments and I am glad you enjoyed the video. Carl Nigi
Hello Mr. Carl Nigi. Thank you for acknowleging my preliminary comments on dyslexia, in a timely manner.
Also, with all due respect to you, Sir, and our (perhaps global) audience, in my view, it is a worthwhile goal for every educated and literate person in the world, to eventually value and understand why the actual experience of reading correctly is such a miraculous process! Researchers have actually determined what the process of reading actually involves, with respect to the biology of the human brain! Their analysis proves that reading requires you to rejigger, readjust or rearrange your visual and speech processors, in such a way that alphabets or letters on a piece of paper, or on a computer screen, are connected to the sounds that they represent, Sir! Isn’t that amazingly phenomenal, Sir, especially when we realize that the biology of the brain is so instrumental and vital in making that process of reading possible, for any given individual?!
In simpler terms, the process to read involves connecting letters, words and sentences to the sounds that they are matched to! In other words, reading is a matter of linking or matching written letters, words and sentences that a person sees, to the sounds that those letters, words and phrases make! That is, reading is essentially like a “Sight-to-Sound” matching process.
In fact, I believe that aforesaid is how and why software professionals have coined or invented the phrase “Text- to-Speech Software”, as dyslexia-friendly software, such as “audiobooks”.
Would you folks agree with that all-important logic, of that actual process of reading, I hope?
Mr. Nigi and our audience, I thank you folks in advance for considering my views, regarding the potentially challenging yet miraculous process of reading!
Sincerely,
Amer
Hi Amer
Once again I am glad you are enjoying the videos, thank you for your interesting comments.
Carl
Hello Carl!! Carl, I thank you gratefully, for highly Praising my explanatory comments, to be “interesfing”, particularly about what the miraculous process of reading actually requires!
Another compellingly-related, insightful and milestone discovery is that: Amazingly, the more researchers learn about dyslexia, the more they realize that dyslexia is not caused by a flaw of character nor of personality! Instead, it is caused by a flaw of the biology of the brain! As someone who is impacted by dyslexia, I find that provenly remarkable concept to be such an exceptional, much-needed and a milestone discovery! That principle in itself can offer such promising hope for hundreds of thousands, even millions of people around the planet, who struggle continuously with dyslexia, in my view!
In fact, I further believe that the foregoing principle strongly suggests or even proves that it is not their fault that they struggle continuously with dyslexia!
Instead, thanks to dedicated and trained specialists and professionals, the root cause of dyslexia is provenly backed and supported by research-driven science!
Wouldn’t you, Carl, and perhaps our audience agree, that the foregoing content is inherently embedded in logic?! In my estimation, the underlying principles of these actual concepts are undeniable!
Carl, I thank you and the Davis Dyslexia Community in advance, for allowing the opportunity to express my concerns, regarding that foregoing aspect of the field of dyslexia!!
Sincerely,
Amer
Well said Amir. I wonder if the faulty biological mechanism has been described in a peer reviewed journal. I would be interested in reading that.
Tahir
Indeed! All the best to you
Hello Aman
Thank you for your comments and I am glad you enjoyed the video.
Carl Nigi