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How does the Davis Method Work?
Davis Mental Skills Training
The program attends to the root cause of the learning challenges, by giving the person three mental strategies or 'Tools'. These self-management strategies allow the individual to create accurate perception, manage stress and regulate energy levels.
Dealing with the difficulties
The program then addresses the learning goals of the individual, which may be related to reading, writing, letter confusions, spelling, listening, comprehension, co-ordination or focus.
A visual, meaning-based, hands-on approach is used. It is called Davis Symbol Mastery® and uses clay, enabling the individual to use their natural strengths and talents to learn.
Clay is used to:
Davis Reading Exercises
The individual is taught three steps to easier reading, using a visual-based reading approach. These reading exercises ensure certainty and full and complete comprehension.
The program attends to the root cause of the learning challenges, by giving the person three mental strategies or 'Tools'. These self-management strategies allow the individual to create accurate perception, manage stress and regulate energy levels.
Dealing with the difficulties
The program then addresses the learning goals of the individual, which may be related to reading, writing, letter confusions, spelling, listening, comprehension, co-ordination or focus.
A visual, meaning-based, hands-on approach is used. It is called Davis Symbol Mastery® and uses clay, enabling the individual to use their natural strengths and talents to learn.
Clay is used to:
- Work through confusions with alphabet symbols.
- Master punctuation symbols.
- Master the tricky ‘basic’ words – called Trigger Words. These are the words that have no picture attached to their meaning. The individual creates the meaning out of clay, as well as what the word looks like and sounds like. This allows the dyslexic individual to read, write and use these words without causing confusion.
Davis Reading Exercises
The individual is taught three steps to easier reading, using a visual-based reading approach. These reading exercises ensure certainty and full and complete comprehension.
The Davis Dyslexia Correction® Program is a highly effective set of corrective procedures and techniques that identifies, treats the cause of the learning disability and gets to the root cause of dyslexia and related learning challenges such as: ADD/ADHD, auditory processing disorder, dysgraphia (handwriting), and dyspraxia (coordination and balance). The Program corrects the learning disability using the natural strengths and talents of the individual’s personal thinking and learning style.
Purpose:
Foundational Skills Gained:
Academic Related Skills Gained Based on Individual Needs/Goals:
Purpose:
- To resolve difficulties experienced with reading, writing, spelling, and/or penmanship for children and adults
- Developed for children (approximately age 8 and above), teens, and adults
Foundational Skills Gained:
- How to create and monitor a focused state
- How to self-regulate energy levels to appropriately match the task at hand
- How to improve balance and coordination
- How to resolve confusions caused by alphabetical letters
- To understand one’s own learning style and recognize its gifts
- Increased self-esteem
- Better stress-management and less anxiety
- The ability to focus attention
- Increased self-confidence
Academic Related Skills Gained Based on Individual Needs/Goals:
- Strengthened left-to-right eye movement for accurate word decoding
- Improved phonemic awareness through various activities
- Ability to independently implement word decoding strategies
- Improved spelling skills
- Ability to utilize one’s creative thought processes for letter and word mastery
- Increased accuracy in reading: decrease of substitutions, insertions, and omissions
- Improved fluency and word decoding abilities
- Improved comprehension
- Improved penmanship
- Skills for transferring thoughts in the mind to words on paper
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The Davis® Math Mastery Program provides tools to correct problems learning math. These learning problems are sometimes called dyscalculia and can often accompany dyslexia and ADD symptoms.
Purpose:
Foundational Skills Gained:
Academic Related Skills Gained based on Individual Needs/Goals:
Purpose:
- To resolve difficulties experienced with math computations and concepts
- Generally recommended for students who do not experience reading difficulties
- Developed for children (approximately age 8 and above), teens, and adults
Foundational Skills Gained:
- How to create and monitor a focused state
- How to self-regulate energy levels to appropriately match the task at hand
- How to improve balance and coordination
- How to resolve confusions caused by numerical symbols
- To understand one’s own learning style and recognize its gifts
- Increased self-esteem
Academic Related Skills Gained based on Individual Needs/Goals:
- Improved ability to correctly write numerals without reversals
- Improved visual meaning concept of numerals
- Acquire meaning for basic concepts supporting mathematics: Change, Consequence, Cause/Effect, Before/After, Time, Sequence, Order vs. Disorder
- Confusions resolved with understanding of math symbols and terms
- Improvement with basic math operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
- Increased understanding of non-picture words used frequently in story problems (is, are, and, of, to, etc.)
- Visual concept meaning for place value activities
- Various math related skills: Telling time, reading or using a calendar, counting money, making change, balancing a checkbook
The Davis® Attention Mastery Program provides a drug free solution to ADD/ADHD. The program provides effective tools to help people aged eight and older, with ADD or more general attention, behavioral, or organizational difficulties. Individuals get to the root cause of their difficulties and resolve them.
Purpose:
Foundational Skills Gained:
Social Related Skills Gained Based on Individual Needs/Goals:
Purpose:
- To provide a drug-free solution to ADD/ADHD
- To address persistent characteristics associated with inattention and lack of focus
- Recommended for students who have completed the Davis® Dyslexia Correction Program, but need additional assistance to resolve areas of attention/focus
- Recommended for students primarily motivated to resolve difficulties with attention, behavioral issues, and /or social interactions
- Developed for children (approximately age 8 and above), teens, and adults
Foundational Skills Gained:
- Ability to create and monitor a focused state/attention
- Self-regulation of energy levels to appropriately match the task at hand
- Continued practice with balance and coordination
- To understand one’s own learning style and recognize its gifts
- Increased self-esteem
- Increased self-confidence.
Social Related Skills Gained Based on Individual Needs/Goals:
- Mastery and internalization of concepts directly related to problems with focusing, staying on task, organization, and social interactions
- Acquire meaning for basic concepts: Self, Change, and Consequence
- Acquire meaning for basic concepts: Cause/Effect, Before/After, Time, Sequence,
- Order vs. Disorder
- Application of concepts to real-life situations
The Davis® Reading Program for Young Learners provides important tools to beginning readers. Through the unique partnership philosophy of the program, parents or other family members gain the skills needed to provide the child with ongoing quality support. Learning techniques and activities are keyed to the developmental level of the child, so the child experiences success in a fun and playful setting. Through active participation in the program, the parent gains the knowledge and tools needed to continue supporting the child’s learning at home. (At least half or more of the program time will also include the parent or support person participating in helping the child with the new skills and techniques.)
Purpose:
Foundational Skills Gained:
Academic Related Skills Gained Based on Individual Needs/Goals:
Purpose:
- To provide younger children with lifelong learning skills for academic achievement
- To provide younger children with foundational skills necessary to develop reading fluency and comprehension
- To provide support of skills and confidence to a child’s parent(s) enabling them to continue working with child at home for successful academic achievement
- Developed for children ages 5 – 7, along with parent involvement
Foundational Skills Gained:
- How to create and monitor a focused state
- How to self-regulate energy levels to appropriately match the task at hand
- How to improve balance and coordination
- Increased fine motor coordination
- Positive experiences and attitudes developed for academic work
- Increased self-esteem
Academic Related Skills Gained Based on Individual Needs/Goals:
- Increased recognition and understanding of alphabetical symbols and their order
- Strengthened left-to-right eye movement for accurate word decoding
- Improved skills with word recognition, fluency, comprehension, and retention
- Concept understanding of all three parts of a word: its spelling, its pronunciation, and its meaning through a three-dimensional model created by the child
