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Newsletter July 2021

The Whole Dyslexic Society

July News

Hi there ! So school is over and the weather is just lovely – what could be better !

I hope the last school year was kind to you, and that using your Davis tools led you towards the success you aimed for.

Davis Films !

Thanks to a fabulous team of New Zealand Facilitators we have two WONDERFUL new films ! The first one is purely explaining dyslexia - watch below or watch HERE.

The second one has the Davis component. Watch HERE.

Please share far and wide, subscribe, comment… it’s a truly amazing resource.

Picture Grammar App  !

Tessa Halliwell, a UK Facilitator, created this incredible App.  She has created drawings for the meanings of all the trigger words, sometimes more than one meaning for them.   She is thorough!  This doesn’t mean we just look at the image and think we’ve mastered the words, we still need to clay them, but it offers a fabulous understanding of what we need to make.

Pioneers!

Did you know you were ‘lighthouse customers’? As we continue to bring new words and phrases into our language (?) I have discovered this term – early adopters are the first customers to adopt a new product or technology before the majority of the population does. They're often called ‘lighthouse customers’ because they serve as a beacon of light for the rest of the population to follow, which will take the technology or product mainstream. So a huge thank you to everyone who is reading this for being that beacon of light. We rarely know how many people we reach and touch or know that their lives are better for that contact, so hopefully these two films mentioned above will add to our voltage!

Expectations!

The more children I work with, the more I am convinced that our public education system is moving away from a child-development perspective.  It just seems insane to me the expectations tied to formal reading and writing instruction that now begin in kindergarten.  Here's a comment that was posted to www.dyslexia.com on the main website that seems to reflect these unrealistic expectations: READ HERE. Why do they set up small children for failure so early on?

Family Summer Camp weekend:

The YMCA at Gibsons is not able to run summer camps this year – they hope to open in the fall, and have offered us October 1-3, not Sept 17-19 as planned.  A few families have expressed interest but not enough to run camp this year. We will give it another go next summer when we can have more freedom and during the warm summer months.

Lastly, and definitely not least !  We have just launched our second annual fundraiser…

Walk and Talk the DYS out of Dyslexia: STEP UP  - and Gifted with Dyslexia Pins  - and an Online Auction!

We have been SO busy creating this major event, the sponsored walk/activities, the universal symbol for dyslexia, and collecting fabulous items for our Online Auction, another series of Podcasts – all happening in August ! www.thewds.org has all the details.

Please do join in – have fun with it all – challenge yourselves, your friends etc., spread the word about the pins, share the podcasts and decide what you are going to bid on (August 21-28)! Make it part of your fabulous summer – yours gratefully on behalf of those we can assist… Sue, Laura, Paddy, Nadine, Sharon, Julie, Gisa and Tristan.

Our Giving Guide: