News & Views from Davis Dyslexia Association International
This week, I’m working with a kiddo who came to me without knowing most of the letters, what they looked like, their names, or how to write them. This is not an uncommon situation.
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I brought my son to see our Davis Facilitator when he was nine. My son did the week-long intensive program four months ago and we have been working on the homework since then.
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Why do dyslexics flip words and letters? The reason lies in a perceptual talent, which is the gift of dyslexic thinking.
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Why do dyslexics struggle with the high-frequency sight words more than long complex words? Axel Gudmundsson, director of Gifted Dyslexic explains the reasons.
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All I wanted was for my son to become a reader. I wanted him to be able to read easily and automatically, without effort.
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What happens when a child cannot learn to read through phonics? Educational researchers call those children nonresponders or treatment-resisters. But is the problem with the child or with the teaching method?
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Dyslexics learn differently. That’s pretty much baked into the definition of dyslexia. Dyslexia is not the result of poor teaching, nor is it the same as reading failure.
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Why do we use clay with the Davis Method? At the heart of reading difficulties are often “sight words.” These
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I walk into the classroom and sit down beside the child who’s on my caseload. We’re only supposed to work on handwriting, but she’s struggling in every way.
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Researchers know that dyslexics learn to read differently, but schools continue to focus on children’s weaknesses rather than their strengths.
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If 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.
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When children start school, they do not carry the labels dyslexia, nor ADHD, nor dysgraphia, nor dyscalculia. Where do these problems come from? What happens to cause a child to suffer and lose self-esteem?
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Time for a Change
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.”
Dyslexia Q&A: Advice for Parents
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.
Dyslexia Q&A: The Dark Side of Dyslexia
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.
Disorientation and Visual Confusion
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.
How to Tell Time
The seven most common sources of confusion for children, and how to address them.
