Reading Age Increased By 2 Years

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8 Year Old Girl, Reading Age increased by 2 Years

REPORT FROM ANNE'S TEACHER:

I am qualified to teach children and adults with Specific Learning Difficulties, using the orthodox teaching methods. However, since discovering the Ron Davis methods of dyslexia correction, and undertaking the ‘Fundamentals of Dyslexia Workshop’ recently in Paris, I am embarking on the full course to become a qualified Davis Facilitator. I live in Muscat, Oman.

I have been working with Anne, aged 8.5, who has been formally assessed by an Educational Psychologist to be dyslexic, and who has an IQ of 127 (high). The results-to-date have been startling to say the least. Based on tests using the ‘Aston Index’, her reading age was 7.2, her auditory sequential memory was age 7.5,(this is a test where the child is asked to remember up to 6 digits forwards and then backwards). Her sound blending skills were at the level of 6.0 years of age. These tests were carried out by another teacher prior to Anne undertaking her orientation and symbol mastery sessions with me.

On completion of the program her reading age rose to 9.2, her auditory sequential memory age rose to 10.5, with her sound blending aged 9.0.

What an incredible change and achievement in such a short space of time, when orthodox methods have not shown a significant improvement with her learning difficulties.

I am overjoyed with these results and so indeed are her parents. Her school, as yet can not comprehend the changes in her reading, her spelling and her general change in personality, from a shy girl, unsure of herself and her abilities, to a buoyant confident little girl showing real potential, in this short space of time. Their response to her is ‘How on earth did you do that'?

-- Patricia Lynn Hodge, Posted to [Dyslexia Discussion Board] on December 20, 1999

REPORT FROM ANNE'S MOTHER:

When Anne was given the opportunity to take this programme I was not convinced of its effectiveness. I am a teacher by profession and I have two children, both of whom have Dyslexia. I have seen many very dyslexics in my classes. I have watched them go out to special needs lessons and observed that they seem to make very little progress. I was resigned to the fact that my daughter would take a similar route. I had even taken an M.A. part of which studied special needs to try to equip myself to teach her at home.

Imagine my surprise when she started to recite the alphabet both forwards AND BACKWARDS. Her reading became far more fluent and her confidence went through the roof! She has turned into a different child. Her spelling is still very phonetic but I am assured that this will come with time.

-- Margaret, Anne's Mum, Posted to [Dyslexia Discussion Board], January 28, 2000