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Vol. 39 Davis Dyslexia Association International Issue 2 • 2005
Two of the most important Davis tools on phonetic decoding strategies for all
for building reading fluency and word words, a process usually centered in the
recognition skills are Spell-Reading mid-temporal lobe of the left hemisphere,
and Sweep-Sweep-Spell.1 During these where letter sounds are connected to
reading exercises, the student reads a words. This is a workable means of
passage out loud in the company of decoding words, but it is slow–and it is
his support person. When he hesitates particularly difficult for most dyslexics. the “Visual Word Form Area”
on a word or encounters an unfamiliar The Importance of Visual (VWFA).2 Essentially, this part of the
word, he spells it out letter by letter. brain is a storage bin for all of the
After saying the name of the last letter, familiar, known words–what teachers
Word Form Recognition
Fluent readers use a different part of
if he recognizes the word, he says the
their brain to recognize familiar words– call “sight words.” It is located in the
word, and then moves on. If he does not visual cortex–the part of the brain that
an area in the rear left-hemisphere
recognize the word, his helper supplies responds to all visual stimuli–and for
occipital lobe, dubbed by scientists
it for him, and the student repeats the (Cont’d on p. 4)
In the Mail
me choose between DDAT and Davis and another teacher who did her MA in
when I was looking for a programme Dyslexia was taking copious notes!
for my daughter some years ago. Anyway, I’m now reading the book! It
Dear Ron & Alice: A 13-year-old boy I worked with was an amazing feat to talk for nearly
and who attends my monthly trigger 3 hours without any visual aids and to
Thank you Alice, for suggesting Ron word mastery group sessions, came to keep your audience captivated.”
was available to give a talk in the UK your talk. I asked him on Saturday, “Thank you very much for making
and to you Ron, for giving it. You what he thought of your talk. His the Davis talk happen. I have rarely
touched the hearts of many people. I reply: “It was good, he talked about met men with such insight and
came to your talk in May and was so things which happen to me that I’ve compassion as Mr. Davis.”
moved by your insight that I wanted never shared with anyone in my life.” A lady of a dyspraxic boy cried in
to share you with Reading. I never He now helps me out when some of the car on the way home. At last she
dreamt it would become a reality. the other students are stuck with their had some hope.
One of the main things that has trigger words, including myself! So thank you, to both of you.
appealed to me about your work is the Here are some more comments
wholehearted desire you have to help and emails I received since your talk. With love,
those with the learning difficulties. “We were all really impressed by Angela James, Davis Facilitator
Who else would reveal to the general the talk last week. Our special needs in Reading, Berkshire, UK
public all their methods and for such a teacher said she couldn’t sleep for
modest price! It was this that helped thinking about all the stuff she’d heard
Copyright 2001 Randy Glasbergen. www.glasbergen.com
“ The lights of
stars that were
extinguished ages
ago still reach us. So it is
with great men who died
centuries ago, but still
reach us with the radiation
of their personalities.
The opinions and views expressed in articles and letters are not necessarily those of DDAI. Davis Dyslexia Correction®, Davis Symbol Mastery®, Davis
Orientation Counseling®, and Davis Learning Strategies® are registered trademarks of Ronald D. Davis. Copyright © 2004 by DDAI, unless otherwise noted.
All rights reserved.
THE DYSLEXIC READER PAGE 3
Thus, known words are recognized and will only practice Spell-Reading and Sweep-
Providers
the reader is aware of having seen the word enough time to exercise and reinforce the
Correction program is
now available from more
or capable of speaking it. Generally, the important neural pathways that they build.
than 300 Facilitators
VWFA activates and completes its work of Many students are tempted to use
around the world.
matching the letter string to a known letter their sound-it-out phonics skills at this time.
For updates, call:
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pattern within the first quarter-second of However, the use of phonics at this time
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v Australia From there, the whole word can be explained in The Gift of Dyslexia, if the
Brenda Gayle Baird sent to parts of the brain where meaning student starts using phonetic strategies, the
Brisbane is ascertained. For typical readers, this is helper should say:
+61 (07) 3341 3471
probably the same left-hemisphere temporal “You don’t need to sound out the word.
Sally Beulke
Melbourne region as where sounding out occurs; but Only say the name of the letters one at a
+61 (03) 5727 3517 with development of the VWFA the process time. All we want is for you to name the
Jan Gorman becomes one of matching the sounds of whole alphabet letters in the order they are written.
Eastwood/Sydney
+61 (02) 9804 1184 words to their meaning, Then you say the word
Gail Hallinan rather than sounding out after I say it.”
Naremburn/Sydney letters or small word The problem with
+61 (02) 9405 2800
segments. adding phonics to the
Barbara Hoi
while the typical reader
Mosman/Sydney In typical readers, mix is that it sends the
the VWFA is developed brain down the wrong
relies on an instant word-
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Linda Houben and begins to activate path. We are training
recognition system, the
Sydney +61 438 440 177
regularly in response to the brain to use the vital
dyslexic reader must use
exposure to letter strings
Eileen McCarthy time-consuming, analytical short-cut that is the
Manly / Sydney
Tel: +61 (02) 9977 2061 at around the age of eight hallmark of all good
–the time most children readers–the ability to
thought processes . . . a
Marianne Mullally
Crows Nest, Sydney
are transitioning from exercise in puzzle-solving. recognize a string of
constant and exhausting
+61 (02) 9436 3766
Mark O’Brien early decoding skills to letters and match them
Port Macquarie/Sydney fluent and meaningful almost instantaneously
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reading. But unfortunately, to a known word, a skill
this is the part of the brain sometimes referred to as
John Reilly
Berala/Sydney
+61 (02) 9649 4299 that doesn’t seem to work for uncorrected “orthographic knowledge.”
Michelle Roach dyslexic readers. Research shows that this Every time the brain takes a detour to
Sydney +61 (02) 9680 1610
area is largely bypassed, with higher activity another path, we reinforce the pre-existing
occurring in right brain and frontal regions, mental habits, and fail to build the short cut
Heidi Rose
Pennington/Adelaide
+61 (08) 8240 1834 important for discerning patterns and solving for visual word form recognition. This is why
Francisca Sibbald puzzles.3 These areas don’t even begin to dyslexic children schooled heavily in phon-
Ermington/Sydney
+61 (02) 9638 4939 activate until after the VWFA has already ics have such difficulty transitioning to fluent
v Austria done its job for more skilled readers. reading: their phonic knowledge is strength-
Annette Dietrich
So the brain picture shows us that ened and reinforced again and again, under-
Wien +43 (01) 888 90 25 while the typical reader relies on an instant mining the opportunity to develop the neural
Jacinta Fennessy word-recognition system, the dyslexic reader shortcut that ordinary readers have access to
Wien +43 (01) 774 98 22 must use time-consuming, analytical thought at age eight.
Ina Barbara Hallermann
Riezlern
processes. Where for others reading is a matter The Importance of Timing
+43 5517 20012 of recognizing the familiar, for dyslexics it It is not enough for the brain to merely “see”
Marika Kaufmann is a constant and exhausting exercise in the series of letters that form a word–the brain
Lochau
+43 (05574) 446 98
puzzle-solving. must have a means of sorting and recording
Christa Salcher Training the Brain the order of the letters. FORM is not the same
Wien +43 (01) 888 61 44
Davis Spell Reading and Sweep-Sweep-Spell as FROM; TEA is not the same as EAT.
v Bahrain are exercises for the eyes and brain. They When we look at brain scans taken with
Sameera Sadiq Al Baharna
Manama are designed to train the brain to develop the an fMRI, we are looking at images taken at
+973 555 201 instantaneous, visual word recognition system one second intervals; whereas much of the
that non-dyslexics acquire naturally. These (Cont’d on p. 5)
THE DYSLEXIC READER PAGE 5
Brain Function . . . (cont’d from p. 4)
v Belgium
work of the brain occurs in a time frames
fMRI, a powerful tool
Ann Devloo-Delva
measured in tiny fractions of a second. To for studying the brain Veurne +32 (058) 31 63 52
understand the process of word recognition, Peggy Poppe
we need to do more than look at a picture Borgerhout (Antwerpen)
+32 (03) 236 54 24
of the brain; we also need to correlate the
Edith Rotenberg
activity with the passage of time. This can Houtain-St. Siméon/Liège
be seen with the use of an EEG; ordinarily + 32 (04) 374-27-87
when a person is awake and alert, the brain Viki Vandevenne
Bonheiden, Belgium
produces beta waves with a frequency of +32 (0473) 30 41 51
about 13-30 Hz. When attention is engaged v Bolivia
for learning or retaining new information, Maria Ormachea
brain activity increases to the gamma range, La Paz +591 (02) 792 945
producing brain waves of about 40 Hz. Functional magnetic resonance v Brazil
When the eyes fixate on an object, imaging, is a relatively new technique Ana Lima
information is transmitted to the visual that measures the quick, tiny metabolic Rio De Janeiro
+55 (021) 2295-1505
cortex of the brain, where different types changes that occur in an active part of
v Canada
of information are registered and evoke a
the brain. Scientists know the general
Wayne Aadelstone-Hassel
response from different specialized sets of North Vancouver
areas of the brain where speech, touch,
Darlene Brown
Thus, when looking at a word, the is registered within successive subcycles of Smithers/Prince Rupert
separate neurons associated with recognizing about 25 milliseconds for each letter, within +1 (250) 847-3463
each individual letter will fire simultaneously, an oscillatory period of 200 msec. This is Paddy Carson
Edmonton/Alberta
in a uniform, synchronous wave pattern. In long enough for the brain to process about +1 (780) 489-6225
order for the letters in the string to be seen seven or eight letters within a string, and will Sandy Farrell
and remembered as a word, the brain must allow a person to read at a rate of about five Hudson, Quebec
+1 (450) 458-4777
also have an efficient means of retaining words per second, or 300 words per minute, Terri Fedorchuk
information about letter order. Dr. Carol which is about average for skilled readers. Dryden, Ontario
Whitney of the University of Maryland has Because timing is so important, the +1 (807) 223-7769
proposed a specific scheme for encoding of ability to recognize letter order is impaired Renée Figlarz
Montreal, Quebec
letter order that she calls SERIOL: “sequential if perception of individual letters is delayed. +1 (514) 815-7827
encoding regulated by inputs to oscillations For example, experiments have shown that Sher Goerzen
within letter units.”4 as time intervals between display of letters are Maple Ridge/Vancouver
+1 (604) 290-5063
Dr. Whitney suggests the letter-order, extended, the subject’s ability to remember Gerry Grant
word recognition skill is a matter of the timing letter order diminishes. These experiments Supervisor-Specialist
of neural firing within short brain wave are usually done with skilled adult readers; Advanced Workshop
Presenter
cycles, combined with an invocation of a when the timing is off, the test subjects start Waterloo/Toronto
mental grid which assigns a priority value making the same kind of mistakes that are +1 (800) 981-6433 (Toll-Free)
+1 (519) 221-8484
to each letter based on its relative position. typical for dyslexia: letters are perceived Sue Hall
The grid is established through the ingrained out of order, and the subjects are unable to West Vancouver
habit of reading words from left-to-right, or form a mental picture of the whole word. +1 (604) 921-1084
from right-to-left in languages like Hebrew D’vorah Hoffman
Toronto
and Arabic. Although the neurons for
Davis Tools and the SERIOL Model
It is very possible that the Davis tools of +1 (416) 398-6779
recognizing each letter are all firing, the
Orientation, Alphabet Mastery, Punctuation Sue Jutson
brain’s internal prioritizing system will Vancouver, B.C.
Mastery, Spell-Reading, and Sweep-Sweep- +1 (604) 732-1516
register the first letter in any series slightly
Spell, work by their combined effect on the
before the second letter, the second slightly Mary Ann Kettlewell
brain’s timing system and through training London, Ontario
before the third, and so on. This process +1 (519) 652-0252
of the visual system to apply the priority
takes place very rapidly; each letter position
Continued on p. 6
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v Canada (cont’d)
Brain Function . . . (cont’d from p. 5)
Helen McGilivray gradient proposed by the SERIOL model. process and causes students to stumble over
Oakville/Toronto
+1 (905) 464-4798
With Alphabet Mastery and Punctuation the small words, with frequent transpositions
Susan Nikolic-Vicentic
Mastery we insure that the brain is able to and reversals of letter order. Sounding-out
Newmarket/Toronto accurately recognize each letter and strategies also lead to the same confusion:
+1 (905) 953 0033 punctuation mark. With Davis Orientation, the slowing of the input of individual letters
Sharon Roberts
Waterloo/Toronto
we probably reset the brain’s internal clock causes the mind to lose track of letter order.
+1 (519) 746-8422 so as to enable the simultaneous gamma That is why the dyslexic student may be able
Kendra Rodych wave pattern that is required for the binding to successfully sound out a word repeatedly,
Saskatoon/Saskatchewan
+1 (306) 955-2972
process. This primes the neurons associated but be unable to recognize the same word
or (306) 230-8961 with letter recognition to fire in synch. when seen only a short time later, or may
Sharon Schachter With Spell-Reading and Sweep-Sweep- frequently confuse words with similar letters,
Thornhill, Ontario
+1 (905) 764-6774
Spell, we are exercising the letter-recognition such as confusing on/no, form/from, etc. The
Catherine Smith
neurons together with developing a habit of word simply has not been processed in the
Oakville/Toronto registering the letters in their appropriate brain in a way that can possibly be encoded
+1 (905) 844-4144 sequential order, creating the internalized for retention of information about letter order.
1-888-569-1113 toll-free
Kim J. Willson-Rymer
grid needed to assign Because Spell-
Oakville/Toronto a priority tag to each Reading and Sweep-
+1 (905) 825-3153 individual letter. Sweep-Spell are
v China Given this goal, It is not enough for the brain primarily strategies for
Livia Wong
Hong Kong
it is imperative for to merely ‘see’ the series of training the brain and
+852-2810-0282 Sweep-Sweep-Spell building the capacity
to be done quickly, for visual word form
letters that form a word–it
v Cyprus
because the brain must recognition, we do
must have a means of sorting
Alexis Mouzouris
Limassol be trained to be able to not use it for study
and recording their order . . .
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recognize a short letter Because timing is so important, of word lists or as a
v France
string within the 200 the ability to recognize letter vehicle for learning
Dominique Blaess
Le Pecq/Paris msec. cycle required sight words beyond
for accurate encoding. of individual letters is delayed. those encountered in
order is impaired if perception
+33 (01) 39 76 12 61
Jennifer Delrieu However, the exercise the course of practice.
Voisins le Bretonneux/Paris
+33 (01) 30 44 19 91 should not be done Rather, we use Davis
Carol Nelson-Pollard so fast as to rush or Symbol Mastery for
Paris +33 (01) 46 51 72 63 pressure the reader; this would be its benefits in linking the way a word sounds
Odile Puget counterproductive. Frustration would cause and what it means to the way the word looks.
Annecy/Geneva
+ 33 (04) 50 41 82 67 disorientation, which would probably This makes sense, as the mental processes for
Guilaine Batoz Saint-Martin disrupt the synchronization of neural firing relating words to their sounds and meanings
La Bastidonne/Marseille needed for binding. takes place in the brain after the VWFA has
+33 (0490) 08 98 56
The oral spelling that is part of Spell- done its work. v
v Germany/Deutschland Reading would not be fast enough to match
Theresia Adler the speed required for mental recognition in
References
Bannewitz
+49 (0351) 40 34 224 the SERIOL model, but it helps build the 1 Davis, Ronald D. The Gift of Dyslexia.
Liesbeth Berger-Laming habit. The speed of mental letter encoding Perigee, 1997 (213-219).
Stuttgart-Vaihingen is increased when the student moves on to 2 McCandliss B, Cohen L, Dehaene S.
+49 (0711) 782 3115
Sweep-Sweep-Spell, where he is instructed The visual word form area: Expertise for
Ute Breithaupt
Langenselbold to let his eyes sweep through the word, and reading in the fusiform gyrus. Trends in
+49 (06184) 93 84 88 then say the word, repeating the sweep a Cognitive Science, 13:155-161, 2003.
Cornelia Garbe second time and spelling out loud only if 3 Shaywitz B, Shaywitz S, Pugh K, Disruption
Berlin the word is not immediately recognized.
+49 (030) 61 65 91 25 of Posterior Brain Systems in Children with
It can readily be seen why this process
Jutta Gorschlüter Developmental Dyslexia. Biological
Muenster is so important for recognition of the small
Psychiatry, 52:101-110, 2002.
+49 (0251) 39 99 53 05 trigger words such as the, for, and its. Dr.
4 Whitney, Carol. “How the brain encodes
Astrid Grosse-Mönch Whitney points out that the time frame for
Buxtehude
+49 (04161) 702 90 70 recognition of a three-letter word is the the order of letters in a printed word: The
same as for a six-letter word–both occur SERIOL model and selective literature
Wibke Hachmann
Freiburg within a single oscillatory subcycle. It is review.” Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
+49 (0761) 13 78 288 easy to see how disorientation disrupts this Jun; 8(2):221-43, 2001.
THE DYSLEXIC READER PAGE 7
v Germany/Deutschland
A Special Birthday (cont’d from p. 1)
didn’t anticipate such a wide age range, and thinking, ”Yeah, right.” Her program week (cont’d)
such a wide range of economic situation. It was magical. I have never seen such a Das Legasthenie Institut
was obvious to me, as the speakers shared, difference in such a short space of time. She Supervisor-Specialist
DLS Workshop Presenter
that whether you are one day sober, or 17 was more than ready, and through the anger DDA-Deutschland Director
years sober, you still take one day at a time. and the tears, and the clay, she transformed Ioannis Tzivanakis
Specialist Trainer
It was Tammy’s turn to be introduced. herself and I was privileged to guide and Workshop Presenter
Her sponsor described the first time she’d watch. When she became oriented her face DDA-Deutschland Director
Wilfried Bähr
met this wild child, age 14, in a tight plaid changed. You could just tell by looking at Hamburg
shirt, with a cigarette in one hand, a beer in the shape of her face and the sparkle in her +49 (040) 25 17 86 23
the other, and one hell of an attitude. Tammy eyes whether she was ‘at home’ or out to Sonja Heinrich
Supervisor-Specialist
was tearful as she started to relate her story. lunch. Best of all, she could feel it, and DLS Workshop Presenter
She described how AA had saved her life others were noticing it. DDA-Deutschland Director
Garbsen/Hannover
at the age of 22, and how she’s been to This remark stayed with me, and insti- +49 (040) 25 17 86 23
their meetings regularly ever since. As she gated this article. Tammy said, “It feels now, Kirsten Hohage
listened to other AA members over the years, as if I’m just 4 months sober.” She’s cleaned Nürnberg
+49 (0911) 54 85 234
she kept wondering why she still wasn’t her apartment from floor to ceiling, she told Ingrid Huth
making it, whatever it is. She got herself me she’s “getting her home how she’s always Berlin +49 (0179) 896 8007
through cooking school and then massage wanted it.” It reminded me of my son, who Christine Jacob
school, she’d run her own business, and at the age of 10, came home from his program Lörrach +49 (07621) 134 60
still the elusive it was not hers. Last year on the Friday afternoon, and completely Doris Karl-Akova
Bremen
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does when a change is needed. If anyone clutter in his mind, that it had to be reflected Rainer Knobloch
had offered her a drink, she’d have replied, in his home too. Now, Tammy is determined Röthenbach/Nürnberg
+49 (09120) 18 14 84
“One wouldn’t be enough.” to become a Davis Facilitator, so she can Inge Koch-Gassmann
She described how she’d started her work with others who’ve fallen through the Buggingen
Davis program, determined to get to grips cracks big time. And who better!! +49 (07631) 23 29
with the learning challenge, and yet at the Thank you Tammy, thank you Ron,
Angelika Kohn
Steinheim-Kleinbottwar
same time, as she sat rolling clay, she was and here’s to an abundance of it!! v +49 (07148) 66 08
Marianne Kranzer
Königsfeld
+49 (07725) 72 26
BrightStar Learning (cont’d from p. 3)
disorientation. Relaxation and stress-reduction treatment, such as education, medicine, Anneliese Kunz-Danhauser
are important: clients learn to use Release psychology or neuroscience. His conclusions Rosenheim
+49 (08031) 632 29
when they feel frustrated or catch themselves are based not on his own research or working
Sabine La Due
“concentrating.” Perceptual accuracy is also with dyslexic clients, but on a statistical audit Stuttgart
vital, and clients must learn to self-monitor for conducted by Price Waterhouse–an accounting +49 (0711) 479 1000
symptoms of disorientation, reminding them- firm which analyzed BrightStar’s self-reported Gundula Patzlaff
Stuttgart
selves to check their point or “get focused.” testing data. The “science” appears to be +49 (0711) 23 64 86 0
But these tools merely lay the foundation for mostly that of business and marketing. Margit Pleger
a successful program; the keys to success are BrightStar has two centers in London Wetter/Dortmund
+49 (02335) 84 87 60
the reading exercises and word mastery. and two in California, with plans to open 20 Barbel Preuss
BrightStar calls its procedures more. CEO, Michael Fox, told the local news München
“scientific,” but its explanation of the that “we’ve been able to come up with a +49 (089) 69 38 03 92
underlying “science” is vague. The UK web technology that produces results quickly” Ursula Rackur-Bastian
Idstein/Rheingau-Taunus-
site explains that the technology is based on a and that their $2700 price “has been set by Kreis/Wiesbaden
“theoretical interpretation” of other research the market.” He explained, “The better we do +49 (06126) 565 01
showing a connection between visual tracking, financially, the quicker we can get out there.”v Colette Reimann
Landshut
processing and learning. The US web site +49 (0871) 770 994
provides the “expert” opinion of Stanford Ursula Rittler
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Professor Sam Savage, that the “program An evaluation of a visual biofeedback Stuttgart
appears to conclusively and substantially intervention in dyslexic adults, Dyslexia, +49 (0711) 47 18 50
improve reading skills.” But Dr. Savage is Vol. 11, No. 1. (Feb. 2005), 61.by Liddle E, Petra Saeger
Storkow
a computer software developer who teaches Jackson G, Jackson S. +49 (03987) 52106
a group of children who were not allowed +91 (22) 2665 0174
because they are often very naturally oriented,
to receive DLS. v Ireland
they may not see the same significant gains that
They do, although, have numerous Sister Antoinette Keelan
the below average students may experience. Dublin
oral testimonials from teachers and students +353 (01) 884 4996
Even so, I hear from them that the Focusing
who have seen and observed first-hand that Maggie O’Meara
the strategies improved specific academic Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
+353 (87) 415 70 99
performances. Examples of that are as follows:
v Israel
• Corrections made on spelling tests, Luba Alibash
independent decoding of difficult words,
Northwestern teachers
Ramat Hasharon/Tel Aviv
+972 (09) 772-9888 or
and improved fluency after using the
reiterate many times that
(052) 272-9532
Sweep-Sweep-Spell strategy;
they feel classroom
management has improved Etya Chesler
significantly with the • Improvement in decoding, fluency, and Kfar-Saba/Tel Aviv
+972 (09) 768 0267
implementation of the comprehension after using Symbol Mastery;
Goldie Gilad
DLS strategies. • Ability to more efficiently complete a Kfar Saba/Tel Aviv
worksheet after implementing Focusing +972 (09) 765 1185
average and below average student, I have Video of Davis Learning v Italy
observed numerous times when a child has Elisa De Felice
Roma
used the strategies and made corrections on
Strategies in Action
+39 (06) 507 3570
a paper or has improved the fluency of their Northwestern Elementary School’s Silvia Walter
reading. successful implementation of Davis Bagno a Ripoli Florence
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Northwestern teachers reiterate many Learning Strategies is the subject of
Rafaella Zingerle
times that they feel classroom management has a video documentary filmed by Kristi Corvara In Badia
improved significantly with implementation Thompson, Davis Facilitator and +39 (0471) 836 871
of the DLS strategies. Through my leadership DLS Workshop Presenter in Walsh, v Japan
as a Mentor, they have learned to use it Colorado. This 30-minute video Helen Brittle-Matsuki
Tokyo +81 (03) 3795 5997
throughout the school. It doesn’t stop at the features interviews with Kim Carson,
classroom door; it continues to PE, recess, Principal Kathy Graves, Superintendent v Lebanon
music, art, and into the principal’s office, Ray Sauerwein, teachers, parents, and
Samar Riad Saab
Beirut +961 3 700 206
when necessary. students, and shows classrooms using
Northwestern does not have standardized v Malaysia
Davis Learning Strategies. Copies are Hilary Craig
test scores that can “prove” with numerical available for $9.00 USD. To order, Kuala Lumpur
statistics that DLS has improved academic call 1-888-805-7216.
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performance. In order to have that, they
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v Netherlands (cont’d)
Marianne Emmerzaal
Zwijndrecht
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Johanna Fokkens
Beilen +31 (0593) 540 14
Pérola Gonçalves
Amsterdam
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Jan Gubbels
Highlights from Ron Davis’ Maastricht
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Lecture Tour Down Under Sue Hillier-Smith
Breukelen
DDA-Pacific sponsored an Australian +31 (0346) 265 059
Judith Holzapfel
lecture and media tour for Ron Davis in Deventer
December 2004. Ron and Catherine +31 (0570) 619 553
Churton, director of DDA-Pacific, visited Will Huntjens
Horn +31 (0475) 589 238
Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney Mia Jenniskens
to support and promote the growing group Eindhoven
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the possum found its way back and made Standing: Linda Houben, Sally Buelke, Carry Kuling
Heemstede
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Marianne Mullally, Michele Roach, John
Reilly, Eileen McCarthy, Mark O’Brien. Edith Kweekel-Göldi
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Ron Davis, Jan Gorman. Mw. Drs. M.H. Labrujère
Zutphen Gelderland
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two additional attempts to come back in!
Imelda Lamaker
Apparently, even the possums in Australia Hilversum
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to her own symptom/signal for disorientation; and your daughter to come for a consultation
v Switzerland/CH
I cannot tell the client what that signal is since before deciding anything. For one thing, your Tinka Altwegg-Scheffmacher
it is different for everyone.) It is essential that daughter needs to be involved in the decision;
Veronika Beeler
St. Gallen
the alphabet triggers be cleared before moving she needs to be able to tell you honestly +41 (071) 222 07 79
on to the trigger words like the, for, to. If a AFTER the consultation whether she thinks Monika Amrein
letter is not cleared, then all words containing she could spend a week working with a
Zurich
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