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

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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 Thank goodness my parents are in the school system and went to a teachers in service for dyslexia. A 2nd grade teacher and Davis certified instructor taught the class and cover dyscalculia (math dyslexia). Point by point my mother knew this was exactly what her grandchild had. Adam Sisman`s definitive biography, published in 2015, revealed much about the elusive spy-turned-novelist; yet le Carré was adamant that some subjects should remain hidden, at least during his lifetime. #TheSecretLifeOfJohnLeCarré is the story of what was left out, and offers reflections on the difficult relationship between biographer and subject. More than that, it adds a necessary coda to the life and work of this complex, driven, restless man. 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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It wasn't until he was an adult that he discovered techniques that allowed him to read easily. Written from his own personal experience of dyslexia, this breakthrough book offers unique insights into the learning problems and stigmas faced by those with the condition, and provides the author's own tried and tested techniques for overcoming and correcting it. TheBookOfPhobiaaAndManias traces the rich and thought-provoking history in which our fixations have taken shape. Why does the Davis method work? Because it was developed by Ron Davis, who has dyslexia himself. He knows what it feels like to never fit in. He knows the frustration of living with a brain that works differently. Disorientation and Dyslexic Perception Description of experimental research exploring how disorientation affects perception ( Issue 26)

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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.

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I read the book and was intrigued, but I thought it sounded too good to be true. It claimed that I could transform in my wife's dyslexia from a burden into an asset in less than a week! It didn't help that the author was American - a lot of snake-oil has been "invented" in the USA. So I DIDN'T follow the simple instructions in the book - not until my wife took me to a public lecture by the author Ron Davis, and I had the opportunity to ask him all the hard questions the book had raised in my mind. He responded to my scepticism with the simple and humble authority of someone who KNOWS from direct experience. In my training I discovered that I "have" ADHD. This explained why I had always been late to every appointment I had ever made; why my life was full of unintended consequences, despite my best efforts to think things through; why school was so easy for me (yes), and why I preferred to learn hands-on. Why I am so creative and curious. Every single piece of my life made sense when I came to this realisation. Even the choice to leave my psychotherapy training to become a Davis Facilitator was due to my ADHD. Like so many with ADHD, I love instant gratification, and that is what a Davis programme gives me every single day - instant results, constant sense of achievement and making a difference. 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! HowTheTricolorGotItsStripes is a highly entertaining and likeable history of flags by Ukrainian ex-cabinet Minister Dmytro Dubilet and was originally published in Ukrainian 🇺🇦 Started out really enjoying it and then half way through I became disappointed in the classification of Dyslexia and struggled with the rest.

There's an "orientation" section. I don't know how or if that will work for everyone, but it certainly works for some people as sort of a centering exercise. (This is a big part of the book because it's the most complicated, not because it's the most important.) What do Cher, Leonardo da Vinci, Whoopi Goldberg, and Walt Disney all have in common? Dyslexia. Though one may think they achieved success in spite of their disability, Ronald D. Davis says it's because of it . . . Once students remove obstacles to learning, they are free to capitalize on the innate gifts dyslexia can bring' It’s kryptonite, Superman. Little souvenir from the old home town. I spared no expense to make you feel right at home.”- Lex Luther, Superman (1978) 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’. What do Cher, Leonardo da Vinci, Whoopi Goldberg, and Walt Disney all have in common? Dyslexia. Though one may think they achieved success in spite of their disability, Ronald D. Davis... says it's because of it... Once students remove obstacles to learning, they are free to capitalize on the innate gifts dyslexia can bring. - New Woman