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Gift Of Dyslexia

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Some of the bad reviews for this book are scarey to read if you are a mom trying to help your child. They say it goes against scientific evidence and they use a lot of big words to make their case. My advice is to buy the book and try the Davis method for yourself. It worked for my 8 year old daughter and it is not cumbersome or complicated. After just the first "Orientation" session she went from reading one paragraph with 20 mistakes, to reading the same paragraph with NO mistakes. I've also called the helpline at the back of the book whenever I got stuck implementing the program and they were always happy to give advice. If you are wading in a scientific sea of information on how to help your dyslexic child, this is one method you should not be afraid to try. It just might by the thing that works for you. Wouldn't you trade all the "scientific evidence" in the world for just one book that might help your child to read?

I am an adult with dyslexia. My nephew who is 11 also has dyslexia. As a dyslexic I was able to read and understand this book. It was like someone put in words exactly how I think. It also offers materrial to help dyslexics retrain the way they learn. Truely amazing for me and my nephew. This will work for a child or adult. Every teacher should read this book. It explains why phonics generally will not help a dyslexic. It heped me understand why learning to read in school was so hard for me and gave me tips on what to do when I am having trouble with what I am reading or reading but not understanding. The tricks do work!

My 24 year old son just went through the program described in this book. He went from a 7th grade reading level with close to 0 comprehension to an 11th grade reading level with full comprehension in 5 days. I wasn't sure it would help him as it seemed his vision was so compromised, and his eyes jumped around so much - I was afraid his problem was largely vision, but now his eyes are rested, and nothing blurs. I am amazed and grateful. He now longer believes he's stupid. So much time was lost, in special ed and then dropping out of school altogether after 8th grade - but now at least he can pursue whatever he wants as an adult.

I was trying to help a little girl who was struggling to learn to read a couple weeks ago, when I discovered that she most likely had dyslexia, though she wasn't officially tested. I started searching to try and understand dyslexia, when I found out that I had it myself, and never knew it!

When I read The Gift of Dyslexia, I was so amazed at just how accurately the author described what I went through. I've read other people's ideas on what dyslexia is and what causes it. I usually agree with them about 50% or so. I agree with The Gift of Dyslexia nearly 100%!

This book has helped me to understand myself so much better than I did before I read it. I used to think that I was nuts about certain things. (Example: I can read and write well, but at the same time, I have difficulty reading and writing, and that didn't make any sense to me.)

Anyway, I really recommend this book to anyone searching for answers about dyslexia. It is very enlightening!

As a dyslexic who took years to find coping strategics, this book described me so well and Davis' suggested solutions make plenty of sense. I wish I had know about this as a child, it would have made learning to read and write so much simpler!

Very informative and well written but it is NOT a self-help book. It's a good book to help your kids or students but if YOU are the dyslexic seeking help for your self this is not the book for you.

While I am not one to write reviews, I found myself appalled by the poor reviews that this book received. I read this book while researching dyslexia for a college paper on learning styles. You see I was struggling to describe my own learning style as a person with dyslexia. Mr. Davis has expressed in his book many of the thoughts I have had but have never been able to explain to anyone in words. The stigma of having a "learning disability" has been replaced with the realization that I have a gift of learning in a non-traditional fashion.

I urge anyone who is dyslexic or who has a loved one who is dyslexic to read this book and decide for yourself.

I wished I hadn't started highlighting in this book, so I could send it back. It's not bad, just not what I wanted. My niece has dyslexia and I am an elementary school teacher. I can't picture using this with my niece or students. I was looking for a better understanding of dyslexia and some classroom accommodations. This is mostly a new method for CURING dyslexia. Maybe I should have read the book description better. Since this is a relatively new theory, I found myself evaluating whether or not I even believed what was being presented. I can see a parent who is at wit's end trying this method to see if their child can be cured. The testimonials sure are encouraging.

As a father of a son with dyslexia this book is GREAT - also suffer myself. It is excellent in opening the eyes to seeing how dyslexia is a different way of seeing the world. Highly recommend it.

I do not have dislexia, but my wife does. When I read this book out loud to her she cried. This book is written from the mind of a dislexic, and has insight that a person who does not have dislexia may not believe. There are a few people here who have given this book low marks. Those people may have a different form of learning disablity, so this book may not work well for them. As for my wife, she said 'as hard as it is to believe what is written in this book, it is absolutely correct' (at least for her). There are some educators who have posted that they think this book is 'misinformation'. Those people are well-meaning, but I am writing this to tell you that 'thinking with pictures' is exactly how my wife's mind works. If you know someone with dislexia, buy this book! You must understand that people with dislexia don't realize how different their minds are from those without it. How often do we talk about our mental images and how ours minds work? Not very often. This book talks about it, and helps non-dislexics understand the workings of the dislexic mind.