Davis ® Dyslexia Counselling

Dyslexia lies at the root of many problems that stop people improving their performance, problems that form a ceiling it is impossible to get through.  One of the best-known of these is difficulty with reading, but there are more...

    - Difficulties with understanding what is read

    - Inability or reluctance to write

    - Difficulties with maths

    - Lack of self-confidence due to early learning difficulties

    - Lack of communication skills

    - No feeling for time

    - Inability to prioritise

    - No organisational talent

    - Bad co-ordination

    - Either overconcentration or the inability to concentrate

    - Hyperactivity

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Some people think mainly in words, others in pictures.  When 'picture thinkers' have these problems, they usually have the same cause.   Picture thinkers often develop the ability to 'disorient', which can be a blessing or a curse.  This is what we call 'dyslexia'.

Disorientation means that the input from one or more of the senses is inaccurate, so  behaviour is based on the wrong data.

The blessing of picture thinking and being able to disorient at will lies in the speed of thought, the creativity and the technical insight of the picture thinker.  The curse is when disorientation is compulsive and happens at the wrong moments.  This can cause one or more of the problems mentioned above.  Picture thinkers are very often either very good or very bad at something, so mathematical genius and the inability to do the simplest sums can actually have the same root.

The Davis® Dyslexia Correction Programme was developed by Ron Davis, who is dyslexic himself.  It solves the problems caused by dyslexia without removing the advantages -obviously we would not want to 'cure' a mathematical genius!  The counselling helps people to control their orientation; to see things the way they actually are.  There are many other aspects to the counselling; many ways to make things easier for the picture thinker -  removing old solutions and learning blocks, improving sense of time, relaxation - but one thing remains central: orientation.

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