The Gift of Dyslexia Workshop – online, fast-track version
Mon, 03 Mar
|Online Event
Learn the full range of basic Davis Dyslexia techniques hands-on, from the comfort of your own home, over the course of 5 days. Live, hands-on training in a tailored online environment.
Time & Location
03 Mar 2025, 09:00 GMT – 07 Mar 2025, 16:30 GMT
Online Event
About the Event
Daily timings: 9:00 a.m. — 4:30 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0).
This 5-day workshop is an introduction to the basic theories, principles and application of all the procedures described in Ronald Davis's internationally best-selling book, The Gift of Dyslexia, and more.
Training is done with a combination of lectures, demonstrations, group practice, and question and answer sessions. Attendance is limited to ensure the highest quality of training.
Who Should Attend
Parents • Home educators • Teachers • SENCOs • Special Needs Support Staff • Tutors •
Psychologists • Counsellors • Speech therapists • Occupational Therapists • Trainers • Researchers • Career Guidance Counsellors • Anyone interested in helping others correct their dyslexia
Participants will learn:
How the Davis procedures were developed.
How to screen for the “gift of dyslexia” and establish a symptoms profile.
How to help dyslexics eliminate perceptual disorientation and focus their attention.
Special techniques for working with people who do not visualize well or have ADHD symptoms.
How to incorporate and use proven methods for reducing confusion and mistakes in a classroom, home-schooling, tutoring or therapeutic setting.
How to structure a Davis Dyslexia Programme.
Face-To-Face, Online...
To keep you safe during the Covid-19 pandemic, we moved our professional training online. In doing so, we were determined to continue providing richly experiential training. So we explored and implemented numerous ways of ensuring this continued, even across a digital screen. The feedback from our trainees has been so overwhelmingly positive that we decided to stay with the online model even when the risks from the pandemic started to wane.
The Gift of Dyslexia online is still the Gift of Dyslexia. This is no dry webinar. We employ a host of creative innovations to ensure the same dynamic, convivial, hands-on experience that you would expect from any Davis methods workshop.
Features of the online workshop experience include:
"camera-on, mic-on" interactive instruction
short video demonstrations of key procedures in a face-to-face setting
animated walk-throughs of our main procedures
adapted pairwork practice in "breakout rooms"
content review and Q&A sessions to reinforce your learning as you go along
in-session use of plasticine clay, so you can experience Davis Symbol Mastery hands-on.
We strongly recommend connecting to the sessions from a computer or large tablet. During the clay modelling sessions, a second device (such as a smartphone) will be needed so that the Presenter and fellow-participants can see your face and your clay models at the same time.
Your Workshop Presenter
Richard Whitehead
Director, Davis Dyslexia Workshop Presenter and Supervisor
Davis Learning Strategies Workshop Presenter
Davis Autism Approach Workshop Presenter
Richard has been a Davis Mastery for Dyslexia Programme Facilitator since 2002. Having been a classroom teacher for several years, he originally discovered the Davis methods when looking for a solution for the son of some friends.
His extensive background in education includes time spent teaching in both the adult and mainstream secondary educational sectors.
Richard has a keen interest in holistic approaches to health and learning; alongside his dyslexia work, he has run workshops on effective parent/child communication based on the work of Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish.
Richard has lectured and presented on the Davis learning methods in countries and cultures as diverse as the UK, Ireland, Iceland, Estonia, Poland, Portugal, Italy, New Zealand and the United States.
Richard's original university education was as a linguist, and he speaks several European languages. Alongside Richard's work with the Davis methods, he is also a Patoss-accredited Specialist Teacher Assessor, specialising in multilingual SpLD assessments for non-native speakers of English in the UK.
Richard is author of the book Why Tyrannosaurus But Not If ?, together with an accompanying free 'A Taste of Davis Discovery Series' fifteen-part e-mentoring course for teachers and parents of struggling learners, the six-week practical Davis Parent Power — Dyslexia course and a practical workshop for teachers. He has written articles on the dyslexic learning style for publications as diverse as Literacy Today, Green Parent Magazine and Personnel Today magazine and has recorded video presentations on dyslexia for the Dystalk project.
Richard is also a Davis Autism Approach Facilitator and Coach and a Davis Concepts for Life Workshop Presenter.
Read more about The Gift of Dyslexia Workshop here............