“Mommy! I want my FISH OIL!” declared my 7-yr old son…
Is this April’s Fools Day??? My 7 year old son is asking me to give him fish oil… I guess it worked! SCORE: Mom +1. The best thing, it...
When things don’t come easy
We often post reports of dramatic reading improvement with Davis methods, but sometimes a child faces a complex array of barriers. Axel Gudmundsson, of GiftedDyslexic in South Africa, writes: I worked with an...
Signs of Dyslexia: Have a Hunch & Need a Quick Check List?
October is Dyslexia Awareness Month. Here is a quick checklist for those who feel they need to know what to look for. During my research on dyslexia as a mom...
Five Steps to Boost a Young Dyslexic’s Self-Confidence
Dyslexia, often described as a hidden reading disability, causes difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols.
5 Educational Trends for 2016
More schools are implementing promising innovations and positive approaches to help children embrace their unique learning and thinking styles.
A Fictional Facilitator – Book Review
Christmas on Cougar Mountain by Nancy Radke (Book 10 in the Sisters of Spirit series) This is a fictional story about Zoey, a Davis Dyslexia Correction Facilitator, who lives and...
Dyslexia Begins Early
Dyslexic brains are wired differently. Researchers now report finding evidence of these differences in infants as young as six months. In a study conducted at Boston Children’s hospital, researchers used...
Cyberbullying and Dyslexia
What is it about dyslexia that makes bullying so common? From significantly increased odds of physical abuse to being shunned by their peers, bullying is a common experience for...
Teaching Japanese to dyslexic students
While in Western countries the dyslexia phenomenon has been closely explored, in the Japanese education community problems of dyslexics has been silenced for a long time, and only with...
US Education Department OK’s the Word “Dyslexia”….. sort of
In an artfully and elusively worded missive, the Department of Education (ED) has issued a formal letter “clarifying” standards for usage of the labels dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia...
Take the “DYS” out of DYSLEXIA
By definition, the term dyslexia indicates illness, defect a problematic situation (dysentery, dysplasia … dystopia!). In the beginning there was a request for the prefix dys- to be removed...