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Why some of the most artistic and creative
people in history have had difficulties in reading was
explained in the book The Gift of
Dyslexia, by Ron Davis. In his book, Ron (a
dyslexic) relates his own schooling difficulties. He
became an engineer, artist, and businessman without reading a
book. He explains how he discovered the way his
thought processes of "three-dimensional picture thinking"
differed from the "linear word thinking" experienced by the
majority of people.
Upon discovering the differences
in thinking styles, Ron set about determining how to address
the differences to make communication using two-dimensional
symbols (written letters and words) less frustrating for 3-D
thinkers. Davis Dyslexia Correction® is the
result.
Order The Gift of
Dyslexia at http://www.iammykidsteacher.com/products.html
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Famous
Dyslexics
Leonardo DaVinci
Michelangelo
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Winston
Churchill
Albert Einstein
Walt Disney
Henry
Ford
Jay Leno
Gen. George Patton
Charles
Schwab
Jackie Stewart
John Lennon
Tom Cruise
Whoopi Goldberg
Orlando Bloom
James Caviezel
Cher
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What Does Dyslexia
Mean?
The actual meaning of the word Dyslexia is
bad (or problem)
speech (or words.) It is used in our
culture to label a problem with reading, writing, and,
occasionally, mathematics.
In fact, handwriting problems should be
labeled dysgraphia, and mathematics
difficulties labeled dyscalculia. All three
of these blocks to success can be addressed and corrected
through Davis Dyslexia Correction techniques.
Our Perspective on
Dyslexia
As Nancy Kress, the Dyslexia
Corrector, explains it:
"Dyslexics---three-dimensional thinkers---see
a moving picture as they imagine things or understand them.
People who don’t think in pictures are called linear, word
thinkers. Linear thinkers must put concept on concept and
describe word by word. Imagine how many words and how
difficult it would be to describe a peacock to someone who was
unfamiliar with peacocks.
"They say a picture is worth a thousand
words---now imagine how much faster and more complete the
concept of peacock is grasped if you show a movie of a peacock
unfurling its unique tail. This explains why those who are
described as genius by us are also understood to be
multi-dimensional thinkers. Their thinking and understanding
is faster and more complete than linear
thinkers!"
Ron Davis, founder of the Davis Dyslexia
Correction Program® and a dyslexic himself, believes dyslexia
is a result of an inherent mental gift or talent. People who
develop dyslexia think in pictures, rather than words: they
are imaginative and creative and try to solve problems by
looking at the whole picture, rather than working
step-by-step.
Due to their picturing things in
multi-dimension, dyslexics have difficulty learning to work
with two-dimensional symbols such as letters or numbers. When
confronted with confusion, dyslexics may try to solve their
confusion by multi-dimensionalizing the word or letters and
mentally "traveling around" the symbol to understand it.
Because of the two-dimensional nature of symbols, this
increases, rather than
decreases the confusion as letters are
reversed and perception altered.
Traditional education has not understood this
mode of thinking and has labeled dyslexics as learning
disabled when, in fact, it is the current
system which is unable to address this unique way of
thinking. The dyslexic is perfectly capable of
learning---faster and more completely---if the material is
presented in a manner which addresses multi-dimensional
thinking.
If dyslexics are unable (or disabled) to
learn, what accounts for these dyslexics’
success?
Testimonials
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Nancy Kress, the Dyslexia
Corrector
480-544-5031
Gold Canyon, AZ USA |
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