Davis Program History

In 1980, at age 38, Ronald Dell Davis overcame his own severe dyslexia when he found a way to quickly eliminate common perceptual distortions. For the first time in his life, he could read and enjoy a book without struggling. To his surprise...

The Story Behind our use of Clay to Model Words and Ideas When I was an infant, my mother was told I was a Kanner's baby. Dr. Leo Kanner coined the word autism in the US. For the first nine years of my life, I was oblivious to everything.

We view dyslexia as a result of an inherent mental gift or talent. People who develop dyslexia think in pictures, rather than words; they are imaginative and creative; and they try to solve problems by looking at the whole picture, rather than working ...