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Learning Difficulties | The DavisŪ Model | The DavisŪ Programs | Program Details
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                                                                               Davis Dyslexia Correction® Program
                                                                               Davis Math Mastery® Program
                                                                               Davis® Attention Mastery Program
  You or your child can pay attention to tasks at hand with relative ease, whether those tasks are engaging or boring. You maintain enough (and not too much) energy over the work day. You find it easy to make new acquaintances and friends. Your child arrives where he needs to arrive on time and has what he needs with him when he arrives there!
 
Then you don’t really need the Davis® Attention Mastery program. But, if you are like about 15-20% of the population who has significant difficulties with time, attention and focus, social interactions, and energy levels, then this program is very definitely designed with you in mind.

There is a simple truth:
“If you eliminate the reason a problem exists, the problem will cease to exist.” Ronald D. Davis, The Gift of Learning. 

The symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity (ADHD) are extremely varied. They cause all sorts of behaviors which parents, teachers, partners, colleagues and friends often find difficult, to say the least: restlessness, poor impulse control, short attention span, failure to finish tasks once started, being always on the go, distractibility.

Yet these individuals have unique gifts! They are go-getters, infinitely curious about the world. They are sensitive to their surroundings. They are highly imaginative and do their thinking in vivid imagery.  They have much of what it takes to become pioneers, entrepreneurs, leaders.

How the ADDer/ADHDer thinks
In pictures and films. In stills, in slow motion and fast-forward, fully 3-D.   And this can be extremely realistically or with extremely realistic creativity! For some it is just about the same.

When this inner imaginative process is turned on, the person is often no longer aware of her outer world. If the environment she is in (e.g. study hall or routine tasks at work) does NOT attract and engage her attention sufficiently, she will use this gift of her active thought and imagination frequently throughout the day. And it will become a spontaneous (unconscious) behavior when she becomes bored. They will not be aware of this occurring.

On the other hand, if these individuals ARE interested in something in their environment, then they use exactly that same gift – to the point of being able to hyper-focus for hours on what they are doing. They become Super-Concentrators! This is the paradox of ADD.

The basic Davis tools for self management as taught in the Davis Dyslexia Correction® program are important here, too. With these you, the client, can learn to recognize the signs when you are not clearly present to the moment. And then, it’s your choice: refocus on what you are doing, or … chose not to.

But we need to address something else … all those missing lessons
Remember the title to the book All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten, by Robert Fulghum.  Well, it’s not true. When the ADDer is not focused to the present moment or task at hand, then he is missing a whole lot of important things.  We need to check that some very basic principles of life are solidly in place.

If your child is spending a lot of time in this inner world,  he won’t learn some basic life lessons (the ones we all think that everyone learns just by growing up). For example, if his time sense is changing all the time, will he learn about being on time? About estimating time?  Will he learn the Concept of Time? Clearly not. If he is the sole Director of the Movies of his Mind and he edits them as he likes (and spends huge chunks of the day doing  just that – being disoriented), then will he thoroughly learn the Concept of Consequence? No again.

So, we need to be very sure that the Basic Concepts upon which we build our understanding of all things are built on solid ground. The Davis Concept Mastery ™ procedures ensure that misunderstandings are clarified and eliminated. And then learning enfolds easily for the ADDer.


PROGRAM CONTENTS

The Basic Tools
  • the content of the Davis Dyslexia Correction® program
  • these teach the mental tools to clear perceptual distortions in the first place and to be increasingly present throughout the day
Concept Mastery
  • the most basic cognitive models (Basic Concepts are examined for misunderstandings, and clarified and mastered)
  • these include: Self, Change, Consequence, Cause, Effect, Before, After, Time, Sequence, Order, Disorder, and more.
Personalizing
  • these are then applied to whatever difficulties you have stated as your goal(s)


The Benefits of the Program
Sometimes what I see with my clients who take the Davis® Attention Mastery program borders on a miracle. Within months their difficulties seem completely resolved. Sometimes the benefits are more subtle, take much longer to become habits, and require fine-tuning. Yet each and every client I have worked with in the Attention Mastery program has benefited in the ways listed below.

Benefits:

  • resolve the perceptual distortions causing difficulties with time, balance, motion, hearing, seeing
  • recognize when you are disorienting, and if desired, refocus on the task at hand
  • manage your own internal time sense, and make it more consistent and accurate
  • have improved self-awareness and self-management in social interactions
  • decide upon the appropirate energy level for any talk at hand and shift into it with ease

In other words, you will acquire a valuable set of tools for self-awareness and self-management.  This is truly the basis of becoming a life-long learner.

Depending upon the specific difficulties that you are having, we will define further specific goals for the program during the initial consultation.

Length
5 -10 days intensive program, 6 hours of instruction per day, best in 2 blocks.

If you have already completed the Davis Dyslexia Correction® program, then we will discuss the further length the program at the initial consultation.

Included in the cost of the program:
 

• A kit containing all necessary take-home material for the follow-up
program at home
• CD/DVDs to support you and your partner or child in the “how-to’s” of
the follow-up program
• 3 Follow-up phone consultations (or 1 lengthier office visit)

Be aware:

Medications that are prescribed to modulate attention and/or impulsivity and hyperactivity are counterproductive in the Davis program.  

See the article A Drug-Free Approach to ADHD by Abigail Marshall. 

If you are taking prescription medication for ADD/ADHD and wish to attend a Davis program, you are required to consult with your physician before discontinuing the use of any such medication.

 
   
Professional services described as Davis®, Davis Dyslexia Correction®, Davis Symbol Mastery®, Davis Orientation Counseling®, and Davis Math Mastery® may only be provided by persons who are employed by a licensed Davis Specialist, or who are trained and licensed as Davis Facilitators by Davis Dyslexia Association International.