Davis dyslexia remediation.....

I looked into this program for my son.

In my opinion it would be worthwhile for a child
who can’t get his letters and the alphabet down.

They have the child make the letters out of clay
and this seems very valuable as a hands on sort
of approach.

And the story of Ron Davis is remarkable.
The book costs about $13.95-ish.

You can buy it and then decide if it fits
your child.

Anne

I read the book.

I don’t think that the methods deals with dyslexia at all.

It is quite well known that 90% of reading problems result from deficits in the area of processing sounds, not vision and not language.

The book talks mostly about language processing problems and visual perception distortions. As far as I can remember, it doesn’t talk at all about problems processing individual sounds and how this can be remedied.

I am a phonographix fan. Davis made no sense to me. People say it helps. But my belief is that its helping with some other problem, not dyslexia.

In fact. I saw an article about it recently here in Israel. The people helped by it that were featured in the article knew how to read before they were helped by the Davis method.

As I say, I assume that it helps. But I doubt if it helps people who have a specific problem with learning how to encode speach and decode writing, in other words; reading.

Andy

dave,

agree 100% with andy, he is right on all accounts, dave

A lot of people on the IDA bulletin board are more than fanatic supporters of Davis. As I read it, and looking at his supporters, he gives the older dyslexic at least basic reading (although advanced work and spelling seem to elude them) and he gives moral support/self-esteem help, sometimes to the extent of making people aggressively defensive. I’d leave it as a last resort, or maybe as a supplement (the clay letters sound useful) to some other programs.

I wouldn’t say last resort, but I’d want tohave a similar learning profile — very very strong in visual-spatial areas.

I appreciate everyone sharing their thoughts. Thank you so much. I have the book so am going to read it and see what I come up with. I read it a couple years ago but my dd was too young really for any of it to apply to her. Plus I didn’t really “get” it. Maybe it will be clearer the second time around.
Has anyone read Right Brained Children in A Left Brained World by Jeffery Freed? That is also on my too read shelf. I just need more time in each day!!

The “right brained children…” book may also be one that just doesn’t match your own — most “right-brainers” are stronger in visual-spatial areas than verbal areas. ON the other hand, your kiddo may have specific strengths in that area, and wiht creativity, that will mean teh ideas work — and using what works is what it’s all about, regardless of what label you put on it ;)