Dyslexia Is A Sign of a Highly Intelligent and Creative Person
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Dyslexia is NOT about Dumb and Dumber
When my son entered fourth grade, his school work came to a screeching halt. After a very frustrating year, I found out he was dyslexic. I immediately began researching this perplexing brain patterning. From the beginning I was very drawn to Ron Davis' information. He is a dyslexic and through exploration of himself developed an amazing approach. My son did a week of training with a Davis Dyslexic provider and it turned both of our lives around. In this lens I want to share more information with you about dyslexia and the Ron Davis method.
Highlights
Dyslexic people are visual, multi-dimensional thinkers. They are intuitive and highly creative, and excel at hands-on learning. Because they think in pictures, it is sometimes hard for them to understand letters, numbers, symbols, and written words.
From the Dyslexia.com website
Famous Dyslexics
Dyslexics are people who...
- Utilize the brain's ability to alter and create perceptions (the primary ability).
- Are highly aware of the environment.
- Are more curious than average.
- Think mainly in pictures instead of words.
- Are highly intuitive and insightful.
- Think and perceive multi-dimensionally (using all the senses).
- Can experience thought as reality.
- Have vivid imaginations.
- Think 20% faster than word thinkers.
Ron Davis Shares His Moment Of Inspiration about Dyslexia
The Gift of Dyslexia
The Gift of Dyslexia: Why Some of the Smartest People Can't Read... and How They Can Learn
Amazon Price: $10.37 (as of 12/25/2009)
"In 1980, at age 38, Ron Davis overcame his own severe dyslexia when he found a way to quickly eliminate common perceptual distortions. For the first time in his life, he could read and enjoy a book without struggling.
-dyslexia.com
Dyslexic Disorientation
One of the first things my son learned when he took his Davis Dyslexia Correction course, was about the orientation point and how to "lock" it into place for reading.
This point relates to our mind's eye or where we view ourselves from. Ideally, for reading, it is located above the head in a fixed place.
Dyslexics often move this orientation point around...it's part of being psychic or clairvoyant. When we read, however, we want the orientation point to be in a fixed place, thereby making sure the letters are being viewed the way they were intended (versus say from behind or from the side).
If a child suddenly disorients in a class lesson, then the teacher has lost him from that point on. Your brain can not take in new material in a disoriented state.
By the way...my son didn't start reading until he was in the 6th grade. I thought maybe, he would only learn math while in school. Luckily for me, he got hooked on a book and finally read his first complete book. I never thought I 'd see that day. All this happened, only after, he took his Davis Correction Course.
The Gift of Learning
The Gift of Learning
Amazon Price: $10.85 (as of 12/25/2009)
Davis Correction Method
"There are 217 trigger words that cause confusion."
-dyslexia.com
Symbol Mastery
Because dyslexics are visual, if they encounter a word that has no visual (all those little words and prepositions), then the mind goes blank at that point, making reading comprehension impossible.
The Davis Dyslexia Program works with clay to build these nonvisuals...and they start with the alphabet. After my son built the alphabet in clay, the instructor had him run his hand over the clay letters, then close his eyes and recite the alphabet backward! It only took him two tries to get it all right. Now, that was amazing!
My son also learned what all those punctuation marks mean and what to do when you see one in something written.
Finally, they started working on those small, non-visual words, building each one out of clay. Not the word, but a visual of what the word meant. "THE" for example is a word that points to something. So my son would build something like an arrow pointing to an apple, all built out of clay.
He didn't get to all 217 of those nonvisual words that week, but we continued at home with followup clay work. Those 217 words are called trigger words because that "visual gap" can trigger disorientation and confusion.
Testimonials
As a Dyslexic, Don't Expect To Be Able To...
- Play on Jeopardy. Dyslexics understand abstract concepts and the big picture, but don't memorize dates and trivia
- Remember someone's name. You will have amazing insight and information for that person, as well as never forget them, though.
- Be left-brain, linear in an argument. Intuition, creativity and right-brain thinking are your strengths.
- See the small details. You have eagle vision, not an ant's vision.
An Intriguing Book
Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
Amazon Price: $19.72 (as of 12/24/2009)
Wolf looks at the development of the reading brain-a complicated phenomenon that Wolf seeks to chronicle from both the early history of humanity and the early stages of an individual's development ("unlike its component parts such as vision and speech... reading has no direct genetic program passing it on to future generations"). Though it could probably command a book of its own, the sizable third section of the book covers the complex topic of dyslexia, explaining clearly and expertly "what happens when the brain can't learn to read."
"Once dyslexics have learned something experientially, they understand it on such a deep level that they know how to do things intuitively without thinking about how."
-dyslexia.com
Dyslexic Timing Issues
An important part of mastering the gifts of dyslexia is to come into right timing. This lens features one of Ron Davis' very helpful (but simple) tools to achieve right timing in any situation.-
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"Dyslexics tend to be more curious, creative, and intuitive than average."
-dyslexia.com
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- Adult Dyslexia Testing | Friendly Blog
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What do you love about dyslexia?
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- aj2008 aj2008 Nov 24, 2009 @ 9:28 am
- The Childrens and Parenting Group that this lens belonged to has survived all the recent changes on Squidoo and is now a Lensography. This lens is now featured at Children and Parenting HQ.
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- Janiece Janiece Oct 9, 2009 @ 5:50 am
- Thanks for this valuable information about the Davis Dyslexia program!
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- aj2008 aj2008 Oct 5, 2009 @ 12:07 pm
- Oh gosh, it's nearly a year since I first visited this lens and here I am again doing some research ;) Glad I cam back because SquidAngel Blessings for you!
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- aj2008 aj2008 May 20, 2009 @ 4:54 am
- LIzzie has a "mild" dyslexia and I am sure it is because of that, that she is gifted with the most amazing wit and sense of humour. I am really proud that you chose to submit this lens to the Children and Parenting Group on Squidoo. Blessings to you for such a good lens.
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- Judy_Filarecki Judy_Filarecki May 4, 2009 @ 11:33 pm
- What a wonderful, insightful and enlightening lens. I wish I had read it several weeks ago. I teach art and had a student who was struggling with painting the sunny side and the shadowed side of the mountain. We tried several approaches and she finally accomplished what she was trying to do. She told me she was dyslexic and once understanding that , we were able to come to a solution. I've got to set aside some time to really go over this lens in depth. Thanks
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- rayray13 rayray13 Mar 28, 2009 @ 8:02 am
- Very nice and informative lense
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- EternalFlame EternalFlame Feb 26, 2009 @ 11:15 am
- Great lens. Well done 5*. Greetings from Betty Boop.
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- oma33 oma33 Jan 18, 2009 @ 12:12 pm
- Great lens.and.very informative..
One of my daughters has dyslexia. She just started publishing her own magazine. Her Grade 6 teacher helped her tremendously when she went to school. She's smart, a tremendous writer....but needs lots of editing:). It's just the spelling she has the problems with. No problem with concepts, new ideas, imagination and sense of humor.
If I had only been dyslexic I might have been a genius too. But I'm just extremely intelligent ...........and terribly modest.
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- marsha32 marsha32 Jan 1, 2009 @ 5:05 pm
- I have a daughter that is not dyslexic is reading bur instead with numbers and synbols...very smart, they just get mixed up between her brain and the paper and vice versa
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- Ener-G Ener-G Dec 27, 2008 @ 10:32 pm | in reply to JaguarJulie
- Yes, I think in general we are all becoming more dyslexic as well as more intuitive.
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- JaguarJulie JaguarJulie Nov 13, 2008 @ 7:47 am
- Great job on the lens my dear! I'm wondering if the internet can make someone more dyslexic or ahdd? I'm feeling a tad bit disoriented of late. ;)
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- LindaJM LindaJM Oct 23, 2008 @ 5:08 am
- My youngest son is dyslexic, but now at school they say he has 'audio processing'. He was homeschooled and my ex forced him to learn to read at the age of ten. He became an avoidance expert when it came to reading and math. I finally had to send him to the school's special ed program because he refused to participate in learning activities and was no longer making progress.
Now he's eighteen and still attending high school though they won't allow him to graduate here in CA because of the exit exam. Everything you say about creativity and the intuitive process is true about my son. He gets awards for his outstanding work in shop classes. He has put together several motorized bicycles and people in our community think very highly of him and his mechanical abilities.
I'm no longer worried about him. His life will never be like mine, but maybe that's a good thing. He's never read a book but during our homeschooling I read dozens of novels to him out loud, and he enjoyed them.
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- aj2008 aj2008 Oct 6, 2008 @ 5:13 am
- As anyone who has read one of my lenses knows, our daughter has Dyslexia as well as another condition called APD.
She may have problems with spelling, but she reads very well and has the most amazing "off the wall" sense of humour, which makes us laugh so much. This is a great lens and I am proud to be the first person to rate it. Welcome to the Children and Parenting Group.
Oh and they reckon that 75% of the world's millionaires are dyslexic - don't know if there is any real truth in it but it would not surprise me!
by Ener-G
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