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RecentResults in Reading

Two boys, one in Year 4 and the other in Yr. 6, did the Davis Dyslexia Correction® Program one month apart at the end of the Queensland School Year in 2006. Both boys wanted to improve in reading.

Student A was aged 10 years and 11 months, and Student B was 10 years and 6 months. A few weeks before their Skill Development Week, they did a standardized reading test which measured the strength of their word attack skills and their ability to read for meaning.

Immediately after the program (i.e., on Day 5 of their Skill Development Week) a parallel reading test was administered to measure the progress made in that short period of time.

The results were as follows:

	Before the Davis ® Program	After the Davis ® Program	Progress in 5 days
Student A: Grade 6
Reading accuracy	7 years, 8 months	8 years, 7 months	11 months
Reading comprehension	8 years, 8 months	9 years, 8 months	12 months
Student B: Grade 4
Reading accuracy	7 years, 2 months	7 years, 10 months	8 months
Reading comprehension	8 years, 1 month	8 years, 5 months	4 months

As can be seen above, students achieve varied and very significant gains from the 5 day program. With the ongoing support provided by Dyslexia Queensland students continue to improve long after their program. Contact me to organise your course now.

Memory and Cognition• Excellent long-term memory for experiences, locations and faces.
• Poor memory for sequences, facts and information that has not been experienced.
• Thinks primarily with images and feelings, not sounds or words (little internal dialogue).

Writing and Motor Skills• Trouble with writing or copying; pencil grip is unusual; handwriting varies or is illegible.
• Clumsy, unco-ordinated, poor at ball or team sports, difficulties with fine and/or gross motor skills and tasks, prone to motion sickness.
• Can be ambidextrous and often confuses left/right, over/under.

Behaviour, Health, Development, Personality• Extremely disorderly or compulsively orderly.
• Can be class clown, troublemaker or too quiet.
• Had unusually early or late developmental stages (talking, walking, crawling, tying shoelaces)
• Prone to ear infections, sensitive to foods, additives and chemical products.
• Can be an extra heavy or light sleeper, bedwetting beyond appropriate age.
• Unusually high or low tolerance for pain
• Strong sense of justice, emotionally sensitive, strives for perfection.
• Mistakes and symptoms increase dramatically with confusion, time pressure and emotional distress or poor health.

Vision, Reading and Spelling• Complains of dizziness, headaches or stomach aches while reading.
• Confused by letters, numbers, words, sequences or verbal explanations.
• Reading or writing shows repetition, adding words, transposing, omission, substitution, reversal of letters, numbers and/or words.
• Complains of feeling or seeing non-existent movement while reading, writing or copying.
• Seems to have difficulty with vision, yet eye exams don’t reveal a problem.
• Extremely keen sighted and observant, or lacks depth perception and peripheral vision.
• Reads and re-reads with little comprehension.
• Spells phonetically and inconsistently.

Maths and Time Management• Has difficulty telling time, learning sequence information or tasks or being on time.
• Computing math shows dependence on finger counting and other tricks; knows answers but can’t do it on paper.
• Can count, but has difficulty counting objects and dealing with money.
• Can do arithmetic, but fails word problems, cannot grasp algebra or higher level maths.

Hearing and Speech • Has extended hearing; hears things not said or apparent to others; easily distracted by sounds.
• Difficulty putting thoughts into words; speaks in halting phrases; leaves sentences incomplete; stutters under stress; mispronounces long words; or transposes phrases, words and syllables when speaking.

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