9 — 13 February 2026, online
Daily timings: 9:00 a.m. — 4:30 p.m. (GMT)
Normal price £899; early bird £799 until 12 January 2026.
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.
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 visualise well.
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 pair work 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
Richard has been a Davis Facilitator since 2002. He is an accomplished educator with a diverse career in the secondary school sector, and is an accredited diagnostic assessor for dyslexia. His first book, "Why Tyrannosaurus But Not If?" explains the Davis approach to educators and “probing” parents. His second book, "Counting On Fingers", showcases the Davis Maths Mastery Programme. He was a guest speaker at the Dyslexia Show in Birmingham in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
