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Summary: This book tells it like it is!
Review: I do not have dislexia, but my wife does. When I read this book out loud to her she cried. This book is written from the mind of a dislexic, and has insight that a person who does not have dislexia may not believe. There are a few people here who have given this book low marks. Those people may have a different form of learning disablity, so this book may not work well for them. As for my wife, she said 'as hard as it is to believe what is written in this book, it is absolutely correct' (at least for her). There are some educators who have posted that they think this book is 'misinformation'. Those people are well-meaning, but I am writing this to tell you that 'thinking with pictures' is exactly how my wife's mind works. If you know someone with dislexia, buy this book! You must understand that people with dislexia don't realize how different their minds are from those without it. How often do we talk about our mental images and how ours minds work? Not very often. This book talks about it, and helps non-dislexics understand the workings of the dislexic mind.
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Summary: Helped my 9 year old with more than reading
Review: A friend loaned me this book when I told her I thought my 9 year old could hardly read. She is extremely bright (GATE child), yet could barely read a beginner's chapter book. It was a fight just to get her to read 10 minutes a day. Her teacher told me she had identified her for remedial reading.I read The Gift of Dyslexia cover to cover in one afternoon. The next day I did the "perceptual ability assessment" with my daughter, literally reading the script as we went along. She understood right away. The next day we did the "orientation counseling." At the end of the session, she was so excited to discover which words were "making her brain jump." After that we did the clay letters and clay representations of her "jump" words. She was retested at school and she now reads above grade level. She also loves to read and is enjoying the Animorphs series. I also use the "orientation point" when she works on math, specifically math facts. She can now whiz through her multiplication table, and when she gets frustrated, knows that it is the "brain jump" that occured. I would highly recommend this book, even if your child has not been diagnosed as "dyslexic." It has changed the lives of everyone in our household.
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Summary: Our Gifts are Unleashed NOW!
Review: This book was found by me after reading many other books about learning disabilities. As I sifted through the conventional resources, trying to help my third child to read at something close to her grade level, I discoverd the Davis Reading Program through this book. Having failed to help my older two children with their school struggles, I found this book to offer me renewed hope for normalcy in the educational setting, which had become a "bad job" for which my children had to show up to each day. Aside from the new outlook on life that has been provided for my children through this program, I recommend this book as a tool to understand the dynamic and unique talents that those who learn differently offer the world. Definately a book to Pass Along to Friends!
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Summary: Understanding Dyslexia
Review: I am a biofeedback therapist who treats ADHD naturally. I use to get request to treat dyslexia too but I had no idea what dyslexia was and how I could help. Then I read the GIFT OF DYSLEXIA and also heard Ron Davis speak in Israel. I was amazed to find out that the disorientation that dyslexics suffer when they are forced to read is very stressful. With that knowledge I began to accept dyslexia patients too and help them concentrate and learn relaxation techniques. I even published a book to help both ADHD and dyslexia children through graphic relaxation techniques. The book is BEING IN CONTROL- Natural Techniques for Increasing Your Potential and Craetivity for Success in School. If you would have said to me a few years back that I would be helping children with dyslexia I would have said "no way". But thanks to Ron Davis I was given a window to understand this complicated problem.
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Summary: Book on Dyslexia
Review: I'm, Girard Sagmiller the author of the book Dyslexia My Life (ISBN: 096430871-1) and author of a web page . The book The Gift of Dyslexia, is one of the top book for find out about the positive side of being dyslexic, great for anybody dyslexic needing a self-esteem post after struggling with dyslexia.. I should know I wrote a book about that.. Thanks..
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Summary: Davis Program Didn't Do [Much]for Me 'Cept Take My Money
Review: I am a 39 year old dyslexic with ADHD. I went back to school last January, and with the severity of my dyslexia, thought that it would be worth the [money]...boy, was I wrong. The very meager reading tips that this program offered are very similar to, and better developed in, Peter Bissonette's as-seen-on-TV reading course, which only cost me [less money]. Otherwise, I found the workshop, which I took with a certified Davis instructor, to be totally worthless .... To be honest, at least one adult I talked to swore by it, but I wouldn't reccommend to adults or children.
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Summary: Davis Didn't Do Didley for Me 'Cept Make $2,300 Poorer
Review: Not only did I read the book, but as a severe ADHD/dyslexic, I was eager to risk $2,300 to do the program. Well, I was 38 when I did this program and all it did was make me $2,300 poorer. What little value I got out of it was almost identical to Peter Bisonette's speed reading course, which cost me only $200. To be honest, I have met individuals who swear by him and the weeklong workshop. But I wouldn't reccommend it to anyone.
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Summary: The Gift of Dyslexia
Review: Very informative and well written but it is NOT a self-help book. It's a good book to help your kids or students but if YOU are the dyslexic seeking help for your self this is not the book for you.
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Summary: Should be Called "The Gift of Deception"
Review: As an individual who has worked in the field of education, primarily with individuals with dyslexia, for over 14 years, and have studied with reputable researchers in the field of reading, I was appalled with Ron Davis's book. One cannot dispute his personal experiences, but I find his claims very disturbing and feel that he is preying upon individuals and families who are desperate to find "the" intervention. The underlying deficit for individiduals with dyslexia is difficulty with phonological processing, which is remediated through direct instruction by highly trained individuals. Successful, approved programs, such as Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, Slingerland, Project Read, Lindamood-Bell, etc. are multi-sensory, systematic, direct, and based on mastery of skills. These programs are supported by current research (Joe Torgesson, Louisa Cook Moats, Rebecca Felton, Hollis Scarborough, Marily Jager Adams, to name a few), as well as the International Dyslexia Association. More food for thought is the "Double Deficit Hypothesis" studied extensively by Maryanne Wolf. There are wonderful books available about Dyslexia, but this certainly isn't one of them. Please don't waste your money, and more importantly, don't be lured to any of his "trainings" that will cost you thousands of dollars and even more regrets.
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Summary: Teaching goes beyond remediation, incorporate into K-3 class
Review: I read this book based on a referral from someone I had never met and felt, wow, I don't get it! Initially, I wasn't sure it applied to our child. About 6 months later, MUCH more research, professional evaluations, and continued professional tutoring for this child, I reread this book. I found a class in Wisconsin that could teach this program and the results are LIFE changing! Traditional teaching methods with worksheets and 90% teacher talk are not the way a dyslexic student with attention deficit takes in information, nor can they commit it to memory. Even greater, I have learned that they offer this program for school elementary teachers and others to be taught in K-3 programs. Now, we don't have to wait for the "wait and fail"...behind 2 years before help is granted! All learners can learn this way, right within a classroom setting. Check the web!
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