A selection of 5 representative extracts from reassessment reports prepared for parents by a Registered Psychologist is presented below. These summarise the successful results of 5 of many children tutored using the Zannie Danks Davis Seven Steps to Literacy Success™ method.

Many children who were tutored 5-10 years ago have continued their education and have been successful at universities and other tertiary institutions.

I thank the parents who gave permission to use these extracts.

As can be seen from these extracts, tutoring dyslexics using my method greatly improves their age-graded literacy abilities to provide the scaffold for life-long success. With some children only 6 months tutoring will be required for them to complete the programme.

Normal children on average improve their literacy abilities by a month for every chronological month, whereas dyslexic children without tutoring do not improve at this rate (even though their verbal skills may test high). This means the age-graded literacy abilities of dyslexics shown in standard tests are below their chronological ages and even further below their potential.

The column "test age at assessment" gives the age-graded literacy abilities before tutoring started for these children, and the column "test age at reassessment" gives the age-graded literacy abilities after tutoring.

Case 1 Boy, 11 years 10 months, tutored 2 years 3 months

Case 2 Boy, 11 years 0 months, tutored 2 years

Case 3 Boy, 9 years 8 months tutored 1 year 2 months (1 year after assessment)

Case 4 Girl, 8 years 4 months, tutored 1 year 10 months

Case 4 Girl, 13 years 0 months, tutored 1 year 9 months

[See this web page by Martin Murphy for an explanation of different WISC-III tests in a psychologist's report.]

Tests used include:

Auditory skills
Auditory memory, sentences (Stanford-Binet)

Language skills
Vocabulary (WISC-III)

Literacy skills
Basic Reading (WIAT)
Reading accuracy and Reading comprehension (Neale Analysis of Reading Ability – Third Edition)
Spelling age (WIAT)
Mental arithmetic (WISC-III)
Numerical operations (WIAT)

WIAT = Weschler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT®) see http://www.wiatii.com/wiat/wiat.htm

WISC-III = Weschler Intelligence Scale for Children – Third Edition (WISC-III®), see Fourth Edition information http://www.harcourt-au.com/default.asp?action=article&ID=129
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