ADD With Visual-Auditory Memory Problems

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10 Year Old Boy, diagnosed as ADD with Visual & Auditory Memory Problems

On November 22, 2000, Clair Girard wrote:

My son Alex 10 is years old and he will be doing the Davis program in 4 weeks. He is very bright and he is very keen to do the Davis program.

This program is my last hope, because our school experts and psychologists have diagnosed my son as ADD (inattentive type) with visual and auditory memory problems. Alex has been through so much since he was 3 years old: Speech therapy, occupational therapy, reading programs, tutoring, psycho-educational testing, and now this (the Davis program).

My son is a true dyslexic. He thinks in pictures, his IQ test showed gifted scores in spatial and math concepts, with an overall above average IQ.

Presently, he is not expected to read... It is pointless to make his suffer trying to read.... oh, he can read at little bit, but he doesn't understand what he is reading. His teacher has agreed to me reading a book in order for him to complete his book report. When he needs to study for a test, I read the notes to him and quiz him orally.... the teacher does the same and marks him accordingly.

Can I be hopeful that he will pick up a book, read it, understand it and enjoy it? Am I dreaming if I hope that my child will actually be able to copy from the blackboard without so much struggle? I'm starting to panic a little because maybe the Davis program will not help my son nearly as much as everybody seems to say it will.

Alex went through the Davis program in December, 2000, with a licensed Davis provider in Canada. Two months later, on February 19, 2001, Clair wrote back to report her son's progress:

The Davis program has changed his life.... it has changed our lives. Alex can now read on his own. He understands everything he reads. It is absolutely amazing and it is getting better every day.... every single day.

Doing homework is really no longer a struggle. He can now focus on his school work for a much longer period of time. Even his handwriting has improved tremendously. I could always tell when he was at his dyslexic worse because his handwriting was basically illegible.

I don't think a day goes by that we don't say "Thank you Mr. Davis, thank you for your wonderful program!!!!".

I still don't really understand what happened during that week and I don't know if I ever will....but all I can say is that this was probably the most important week of this life. Thank you again.