Press Release Summary: Subhead: Gift of dyslexia calls for shift in attitudes
Ron Davis helps thousands of people around the world overcome problems with language-based learning difficulties through the Davis Dyslexia Correction program. Davis, author of The Gift of Dyslexia, will deliver the keynote address Nov. 3 in Vancouver, B.C. at SHIFT, a conference designed to shift attitudes toward dyslexia and other learning disabilities.
Press Release Body: Gift of dyslexia calls for shift in attitudes
VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Ron Davis helps thousands of people around the world overcome problems with language-based learning difficulties through the Davis Dyslexia Correction program. Davis, author of The Gift of Dyslexia, will deliver the keynote address Nov. 3 in Vancouver at SHIFT, a conference designed to shift attitudes toward dyslexia and other learning disabilities. When he was a child, Davis failed miserably in school and was considered retarded. At 17 he could barely talk in sentences and he remained functionally illiterate until the age of 38. Davis learned to self-correct his dyslexia and developed a program to help others using a variety of methods, including making clay models of letters so they can be seen multi-dimensionally. "Dyslexia is a gift because dyslexic people are visual, multi-dimensional thinkers, intuitive, creative and very skilled at hands-on learning," says Davis. "But because they think in pictures rather than words, they sometimes have difficulty understanding letters, numbers, symbols, and written words." "We want to shift people's ideas, to show that the focus should be on changing the education system so it addresses the way students learn," says Sue Hall of North Vancouver. Hall is one of more than 400 Davis Correction Facilitators world-wide and founder of the non-profit Whole Dyslexic Society of B.C. Davis maintains that thirty per cent of the population has some form of dyslexia or other learning disability. Many of these people have difficulty learning at school, often resulting in illiteracy and unemployment unless they learn how to overcome their barriers to learning. The Davis program enjoys a 97% success rate as it actually resolves the root causes of problems experienced by children and adults with language-based learning difficulties, as explained in The Gift of Dyslexia. Davis Dyslexia Correction is delivered in 29 languages in 39 countries and is the most widely-used program for addressing learning difficulties world-wide. Davis methods are being implemented in primary grade classrooms in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere. In Iceland, Davis Learning Strategies, the preventative program for younger children, has been introduced in 20% of schools at the K-3 levels. Davis Correction is enthusiastically endorsed by thousands of students, their parents, adult learners and educators in North America and around the world. Further details and conference registration at www.dyslexiacanada.com/events.php.
Web Site: http://www.dyslexiacanada.com/; www.dyslexia.com
Contact Details: Sid Tafler, Media Relations Net B.C. Publishing 250-381-4244 stafler@netbc.com
Sue Hall, Founder Whole Dyslexic Society of B.C. 604-982-0092 info@dyslexiacanada.com P.O. Box 33026 West Vancouver, B.C. Canada V7V 1H0
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