One Hundred Clay Balls
THE DAVIS® METHOD
Why It Works
When thinking of dyslexia, it is usually assumed that it affects some aspects of the functional skills of a person. I have often heard people say: "Don't bring the dyslexia in: it's just an excuse for being so clumsy and forgetful! Why can't he learn?"
As a matter of fact, the term dyslexia stands for a compound of symptoms, of which the problems with reading and writing are just one fragment. Signs of dyslexia
To give an effective solution, the intervention must be tailored on the person's needs and based on a consolidated set of techniques.
This is why we offer a range of programmes, aimed at resolving the learning difficulty by developing the personal potential. The result is the birth of a personal, original, learning style while gaining a sense of responsibility and enhanced self-reliance and self-esteem.
Every programme is preceded by an interview, perceptual ability assessment and goal setting, and ends with the successful accomplishment of such goals.
Ronald D. Davis has created the Dyslexia Correction Programmes from his personal experiences, being himself both dyslexic and autistic. At age 38 he read his first book cover to cover after a lightbulb realization on how his dyslexic mind worked. That was the beginning of what we use today to help brilliant but struggling learners.
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Information and research can be found on: www.dyslexia.com
Used with permission
Alba Di Berardino
Member of DDAI (Davis Dyslexia Association International)
Thank you for taking the time to read all the way here.
I am passionate about helping people recognise their own strength and I find the Davis Method is the most direct, creative and effective way to deal with learning difficulties such as dyslexia, ADHD, dyscalculia.
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The passion to understand the human mind has accompanied me since very young age and through life, so I spent most of my youth and adult years researching and accumulating experience to find answers to my many questions, often feeling trapped in an eternal “transformation lab”, a place where, for every question answered, two more popped up.
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I have come across the Davis method in my search to help one of my children and a new world opened to me. I found a core point where many theories become practical experiences which bring effective solutions.
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With an art background, as I did fine art studies in Italy, creativity takes an important role in whatever I engage in. One more reason why I find the Davis methods so fascinating.
During my time teaching, I have often seen a reflection of the dyslexic talent in students’ art work, a striking originality, misguidedly seen as mistakes, even in creative environments, especially when reproducing real subjects from the environment.
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Struggling learners, usually visual thinkers, are penalised by most educational systems which results a paralysing experience in too many cases. Through the Davis method they find the way to becoming a new self, learning difficulties become a memory and the inner talents are the propeller for success, in school, at work, in relationships.
I have seen this in myself, while training to become a facilitator, in my neurodiverse children and in clients, who experience visible changes in a matter of weeks following intensive, highly structured programmes, filled with self-management tools, creative engagement and focussing techniques. ​
I am based in the Worth Valley not far from Haworth home of the Brönte sisters, destination of leisure and cultural voyages.
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A Word About The Name
It's all about maths!
Despite having a creative mind I also have a mathematical mind. I love the play of numbers, the games quantities and patterns do in the world I live in. I look for them in every expression and find it a bit sad to see how many people have a hard time when it comes to managing numerals, quantities and the way they work.
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During my training to become Davis facilitator, I fell in love with the way math is explored and so I came up with One Hundred Clay Balls because it is one of the resource used in a Davis Maths Mastery Programmes.
