The Oakville Success Centre (OSC) has been achieving excellent results teaching dyslexic children and adults with the Davis Dyslexia Correction Program. The program is an adaptive learning platform that works to the strengths of the individual while eliminating the disorientation that dyslexics feel when they become confused.
Dyslexics are picture-thinkers and the program the OSC employs, uses the natural strengths and talents of a picture thinker’s natural learning style. The program is a confidence builder for dyslexics because it affirms their intelligence as well as their way of thinking and perceiving.
Director, Dr. Cathy Dodge Smith, and her team of facilitators empower dyslexics to take control of the learning process by providing tools to control of their visual and auditory perception.
Dyslexics are prone to perceptual distortions of the senses of time, vision, hearing or balance and or coordination. The solution is two-fold: Control perception disorientation and eliminate the causes of perceptual disorientation.
Recognition is the key for dyslexics, they are taught at the OSC using the Davis approach to identify disorientation; and to use their minds and awareness to interrupt the confusion that disorientation creates using their imaginations.
Controlling the symptoms of dyslexia is the first step to resolving the causes that trigger disorientation. To improve reading, writing and spelling, the Davis method uses three steps to achieve its’ goals. The OSC uses mastery of the alphabet and basic punctuation symbols; mastery of words that the dyslexics have no picture or meaning for; and building sequencing and comprehension skills during reading to help dyslexics learn the basics.
Playing to the strengths of the dyslexic, the OSC uses images and clay alphabet letters to stimulate the learning process by creating pictures that a dyslexic and absorb and retain. Through letter formation and word pronunciation, triggers are identified that cause disorientation, confusion and misperception. Those factors impair the learning process through the confusion that letters and words create.
There are 200 trigger words in the English language that need to be mastered. Once this is done, the individual has a working arsenal of recognizable words that are understood upon sight.
To contact the OSC visit the website or call toll-free at 888.569.1113. Email inquiries can be sent to email@example.com. OSC is located at 38-1545 Cornwall Rd., Oakville Ontario.