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VOL. 40 DOUBLE ISSUE Davis Dyslexia Association International ISSUE 3 & 4 • 2005
Announcing ReadOn
Interactive Software!
inspired by the Davis Dyslexia Correction
Program and Davis Learning Strategies
ReadOn is a comprehensive learning reading level, ReadOn allows the
tool designed to assist people of all ages student to experience reading with
to learn to read, or overcome reading minimal supervision and support.
problems associated with dyslexia. Mistakes can be made and risks taken
Unlike other software packages that resulting in an increased willingness
are purely assistive in nature, ReadOn to read, as well as improved reading
incorporates specific learning strategies ability and a boost in self esteem.
to help people become independent The developers of the software
and fluent readers. are Jane and Phil Mangano who live
Reading is a complex process and in West Australia. The initial inspiration
when this process is not mastered, for ReadOn was to motivate and assist
students will struggle to become their daughter after she completed a
independent readers. Regardless of Davis Dyslexia Correction® Program
with Heidi Rose in Adelaide. Their
In This Double Issue (Cont’d on p. 14)
“ The opposite
of a correct
statement is a
false statement. But the
opposite of a profound
truth may well be another
profound truth.
The Dyslexic Reader is published quarterly by Davis Dyslexia Association International (DDAI), 1601 Bayshore Hwy.,
Suite 245, Burlingame, CA 94010 USA. Tel. +1(650) 692-7141.
OUR GOALS are to increase worldwide awareness about the positive aspects of dyslexia and related learning styles;
and to present methods for improving literacy, education and academic success. We believe that all people’s abilities
and talents should be recognized and valued, and that learning problems can be corrected. EDITORIAL BOARD: Alice
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spelled so differently. v
22. She has a B.S. degree in applied behavioral
sciences and a law degree. She lives in Pacifica,
California.
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words correctly in print by being there are so many words and word United States (1829-1837)
dovetail nicely with them. It’s just that creative, for both the teacher and the
the instruction is designed to facilitate students. And in this sense it bears a
language acquisition, not learning a relationship to parts of what we do in
language via analysis, memorization a Davis Dyslexia Correction Program.
Americans are famous
and application of rules. languages and for believing, The teacher must overcome her training
for not learning other
There are two points I’d like to in the structure of the language and
make about TPR before closing. The not so much that they design activities that the learning brain
first is that in a TPR classroom, the shouldn’t have to, but that perceives as real and interesting. Within
focus is not on analysis of linguistic these real experiences, students are free
structures, but on internalizing those to generate all kinds of expressions
they are not capable. For
structures for unconscious use. using the language they’re studying, and
language teachers, this
consider your native language: you new utterances and situations in the
even dipping a toe into
did not need to learn the grammar and active environment in the room. I think
the language pool!
syntax of your native language in this creativity, the synthetic rather than
order to learn to speak it. You learned analytic experience, the low stress,
those structures, unconsciously as you communicate. When we use TPR and generally accepting environment
learned to speak. Likewise, we do not strategies to teach, our goal is truly to engineered by the teacher, are a large
consciously use grammar or syntax in be able to understand, speak, read and part of the reason so many students,
understanding, speaking or reading— write the language, not “about” the including those with learning challenges,
grammar and syntax are both structures language. So analysis of language, find TPR classes so effective and
that we study AFTER we have learning terminology and all the many enjoyable. There are few other places
become fluent speakers of our native rules of a language form little or no in most school curriculums where the
language. We are more likely to make part of a TPR-based curriculum. To students themselves get to generate the
conscious use of this information to my mind, that is as it should be. Those speech and adapt the activities in the
write, or in situations where we must individuals who have a strong desire to classroom to support their own needs
speak in a formal register, but day to know the language of grammarians, and goals.
day, for most of us, the grammar we the rules and exceptions, can always Next time, a little more on TPR
have internalized is just that, an find a class to satisfy that urge. and the needs of students with a
internalized framework that we do The other point I’d like to make dyslexic learning style.v
not access consciously in order to is that TPR instruction is highly
him. I’m not sure if there is a standard West Point and had to repeat a year.
BrDev/brdev.html
Q: I found your web site on dyslexia A: Ask the student what his preference to be persistent and to keep trying
and was hoping you could help me in would be; it varies with the individual. even if the work seems difficult.v
PAGE 10 THE DYSLEXIC READER
Waking Up . . . (cont’d from p. 1)
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Not long after my thirteenth birthday, Continued on p. 11
THE DYSLEXIC READER PAGE 11
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have been developed in the autism community a desire to continue the search for answers. v
THE DYSLEXIC READER PAGE 13
v France (cont’d)
Software Review by Abigalil Marshall Carol Nelson-Pollard
Paris
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v Germany/Deutschland
ReadOn Interactive Software . . . (cont’d from p. 1)
(cont’d) aim was to provide her with an independent User preferences and options include:
Sabine La Due and fun way to carry on with the Davis • pitch, speed and volume for a variety of
Stuttgart
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Margit Pleger
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Inge Starck
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THE DYSLEXIC READER PAGE 15
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