The Gift of Dyslexia: Why Some of the Smartest People Can't Read...and How They Can Learn

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Here’s somethign I desperately wish we saw more of: letting kids learn literacy on their own terms, without the intense pressure that it often carries. I find the people who will struggle most with this book are those who are not dyslexic, or, are looking for traditional doctrinal answers to a non traditional struggle in the learning processes of the mind.

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Based on personal experience of dyslexia, Ronald D. Davis offers insights into the learning problems and stigmas faced by those with the condition, and provides tried and tested techniques for overcoming and correcting it with his Davis Procedures, now used in over 40 countries worldwide. Failure plus more failure plus more failure plus more failure for a child who has a low tolerance for failure, will trigger their genetic disposition for dyslexia. Their gift of mastery swindled them. Their gift of mastery caused their dyslexia. Tragic! Well, only if they never cross paths with Ron Davis. If they are fortunate enough to ‘meet’ him, it will be their gift of mastery that will correct their dyslexia without losing any of the abilities associated with dyslexia. After a Davis Dyslexia Correction program, dyslexia is no longer a barrier. The person has the tools needed for mastery and control of their dyslexia. These eight basic abilities, if not suppressed, invalidated or destroyed by parents or the educational process, will result in two characteristics: higher than normal intelligence, and extraordinary creative abilities. From these the true gift of dyslexia can emerge -- the gift of mastery.More than seventy learning disability categories appear to be either related to dyslexia,... Is it dyslexia? Take our free online survey I could hardly read at all before I started the programme. For the first time, I finished a book without getting frustrated or angry. I pinched a book from primary school because I wanted to read it and now over 30 years later I can read it. I am more mellow now and starting to be me again. I’ve found myself! This course works – better than anything else I’ve tried. Dave, New Zealand - TheBookOfPhobiaaAndManias traces the rich and thought-provoking history in which our fixations have taken shape. Appears bright, highly intelligent, and articulate but unable to read, write, or spell at grade level.

The Gift of Dyslexia: The Book that Completely Changed my The Gift of Dyslexia: The Book that Completely Changed my

I believe my youngest son is also Dyslexia and I bought this book with the intent to help him and guide him so that he doesn't struggle with insecurities like I did as a child. I wanted tools to guide him so that he never feels stupid or slow... since there is NO such thing as a stupid or slow Dyselxic person. I wanted him to know that his brain works just fine... and that inside his mind he can see things different and precieve things different than those without Dyslexia. That it is a gift and he CAN read, he just has to be taught a different way to process all the information out there. Love this book. It changed my daughters life... The advice, tips and inspiration helped me not to give up and to not let a piece of paper define my child. Thank you once again." - Marinda Cruywagen I'm hyperlexic, and can't imagine (nor remember, as I began reading aloud before age 2) looking at words in my native language and not being able to decipher the symbols into concepts and ideas. (I have poor visual imagination, however.) Read the section on “Holding” in Chapter 28 (“Release and Orientation Review”) of The Gift of Dyslexia.The book does cover facts on how not all dyslexics have problems reading. Explaining how many dyslexics have other problem areas such as Mathematics (dyscalcula) or memory laps (what is perceived as poor working memory) and problems with cross stimuli (ADD/ADHD) or auditory discrimination (distinguishing between similar letter-sounds.) If I were to sum up how the programs works : It is an explanation of severe learning style(s). And how to use that learning style to be able to learn in the traditional sense as well as function in "normal social" means by quieting some of the trigger points that are social and educational struggles using the way their mind already functions. The book does an excellent job explaining how the dyslexic mind is a visual mind and why they often have the social and educational struggles. The techniques for overcoming dyslexia help use the visual mind (or strong imagination depending on the age of the dyslexic) to overcome learning struggles. In my experience the dyslexics often express "I get to use who I am to be normal.I feel like I get to be me."

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To change our perspective of dyslexia from disability to gift, we must start with a clear, accurate understanding of what dyslexia really is, and what causes it. Doing this will bring out the positive as well as the negative aspects of the situation and allow us to see how dyslexia develops. Then the idea of correcting it won't seem far-fetched. Going a step beyond correcting the problem, we can also recognize and explore this condition as the gift it truly is. The next letter ‘ O’ brings more questions and ideas: why is it called an ‘O’ when ‘circle’ is its name; if I squeeze it in the middle, it changes to an 8; it is the same shape when I flip it upside down, and so on. They continue on like this with all 26 uppercase letters and all 26 lowercase letters. By the time non-dyslexics, without the drive for mastery, have easily accepted the two alphabets, dyslexics have created so much information and unanswered questions for these letters that every time the brain sees them, it disorientates to try to continue solving the unsolved information it needs for mastery. Now comes their first true failures. They say the wrong name of the letter or they write the letter in the wrong way. They begin failing and failing and with their low threshold for confusion, they are about to activate ‘dyslexia’.Do you ever get the feeling that you’ve read something and is not gone in, you reread it again and it still doesn’t go in? The Gift of Dyslexia highlights this greatly. So much so I even got a copy for my girlfriend and my mum for them to read so they can better understand how I interact with the written word. Now for the parts that completely changed my world … this can all be corrected! Setting out practical step-by-step techniques, using visualisation and multisensory learning, Ronald Davis brings help to the 15% of children and adults who struggle with reading and writing because of dyslexia. In this revised and expanded edition of his classic work Ronald Davis brings real help to people who have dyslexia. To explain it simply, while very young, dyslexic children develop a skill. This skill allows them to see things in a different way, be able to move around the place with their minds eye and somehow be able to deduce things that are not visible from where they're standing. This is possible because this is skill does not use our slow linear approach of thinking, but another very sophisticated non-linear approach. Professional services described as Davis®, including Davis Dyslexia Correction®, Davis Symbol Mastery®, Davis Orientation Counseling®, Davis® Attention Mastery, Davis® Math Mastery, and Davis® Reading Program for Young Learners may only be provided by persons who are trained and licensed as Davis Facilitators or Specialists by Davis Dyslexia Association International.