Davis® Dyslexia Correction Program
The assessment will determine if the Davis® Program is a suitable solution for the client’s learning difficulties and goals.
These tools create a lifetime of success!
The Program
Orientation Tool
The Davis® orientation methods ELIMINATE DISTORTIONS in seeing, hearing, and sensing balance/movement/and time passage. The ability to control focus and accurately perceive the environment with all your senses is as easy as creating a thought.
“Wow! Evertything is so clear!” – a third-grade Reading Solution client
Release and Dial Tool
The release tool is used to reduce stress and frustration, while the dial tool allows clients to control and adjust their energy levels appropriately for each unique situation.
“Am I too excited? I guess I better turn my dial down.” – a sixth-grade client
De-triggering Tool
This eliminates the possibility of single letters, punctuation marks, uncommon fonts, phonetic symbols, and certain sounds triggering a disorientation.
“I can’t believe all these letters carry so much power over my mind.” – 27 yr. old client
Reading Tools
These tools replace the negative reading habits with productive habits. The client is slowed down and must see each letter in its proper place. Another tool guides the client in comprehension appropriate for the picture-thinker’s learning style.
“Reading is so easy now. It feels comfortable” – a 56 year-old client
Fine Tuning and Koosh® Ball Tool
“I made 60 in a row!!” – an eighth-grade male client
Symbol Mastery Tools
Mastery means certainty; knowing for sure what something means, looks like, and sounds like; knowing how to do something well; knowing something so well you don’t even have to think about it because it has become an integral part of your being. [Ex: I knew she had mastery of typing when I saw her fingers move so accurately.]
Davis® Symbol Mastery gives mastery and mental images to the approximately 219 “blank” words that trigger disorientation. 196 of these words are found in the Dolch list of sight words taught in the lower grades. This list of 219 was simply compiled by having several adult dyslexics go through the dictionary and make a list of words that had no picture – amazingly each of their lists were nearly the same, full of mainly very short, abstract words.
Give it a try!
Read the following passage and feel what happens to your comprehension as you read it.
Add disorientation into the mix and experience how much more confusing it can be:
Here is what the passage really says:
“I didn’t know I didn’t have a picture for that word! All these years!” – a 48 year-old client
A Program for Imaginative / Spatial / Picture Thinkers
Program Details
To find out more about the 30-hour Davis® Dyslexia Correction program, offered by Susan Smarjesse, including program specifics and program offerings, please click the button or contact Susan for more information.
Clients teaching how to give support for the essential home follow-up.
After the Program
The client will leave the program with all of the tools, understanding, and materials necessary to implement the program into their every day lives and achieve positive results.
Davis Symbol Mastery® of 219 “trigger words” (those words that do not have a visual image) is an essential part of the correction of Dyslexia.
Support Training is provided on the last day for family members, tutor[s] and/or teacher[s] who will support the client in this follow-up.
Clay model
A clay model where the client has taken control and responsibility for all of his tools.
Lady learning to read with clay model
Dial levels in clay.
boy with clay
Confusions removed from letters.
clay model
De-triggered lowercase alphabet.
boy reading
Easy reading
Lady working on disorientation
Balance for optimum perception.
clay model
Clay model for “in” will become a mental picture.
Depending on the situation and age of the client, the support person may receive training in the follow-up by being present during the program.
Susan expects free phone and email contact during the essential follow-up year.