Read and listen to those who speak through the book
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I am a scientist and I never heard about Dore, but after reading the book I put my child (who is not dislexic but who has - or I should say "had" - learning difficulties) through the programme and he is flying through school now, catching up "a year in a term" as his teacher told me at parents' evening a couple of weeks ago (notice that the school is unaware of my child enrolling the programme)!
The book shows what the programme can do through Wynford Dore family story and through the story of a few other quite different cases.
If people stopped seeing this programme as a private money maker, and started to put effort in real research, listening to the real stories of those who completed the programme, may be more children would have a chance to go through it and one day the LEA and the government would have to recognise the impact that it could have on our society and our children.
Read the book and make your own conclusions based on the stories told, so that one day may be every child will have the chance to get better.
If you don't believe it, then call or write to Wynford (I did and he himself called me back) so that you can clarify any matters that leaves you doubts.
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Good Read Not Much Help
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For people interested in Finding a way to deal with there dyslexia this book is not for you.
From start to finish the book feels like a giant advertising campaign to join the programme. The book covers the life story of Wynford Dore's daughter Sophie which is quite interesting and it does go into explaining dyslexia and how the program works but it doesn't go further than that.
After finding out how i could be helped with the program through the book i decided to contact Dore via there website only to find out that it would cost me £2000 to go on the program.
I have decided to get in touch with the British Dyslexia Association before resorting to parting with £2000 of my hard earned cash.
So i gave the book a 3 star because it is an interesting book it just didn't really help me any.
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Dore Review
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Long winded build-up to the problem of learning difficulties as describe by Dore. I can't take anything away away from the obvious struggle that the Author, his family and daugther went through, but I lost interest half way through. For a dyslexic person not emotionally connected with the Dore family I was left feeling that the Author was saying 'look at me'.
The book gives a great deal of description of how the institute scientifically measures learning difficulties (dyslexia, dyspraxia and ADHD), but ultimately it comes across as advertising for the institute. Describing the process of learning difficulties and your half way to resolving the problem. This where I perceive the book ends and where the individual stories begin. There are as many processes of learning as there are people (if not why isn't there one or two answers) and the Dore Institute want the readers the use them to understand which process are working and which ones aren't, and from this develop an individually improvement programme.
The organisation may be doing good work, but I was left in the cold regarding, not a formulaic solution but, a set of tools and ideas. I didn't feel invited to the institute for a full work-up on my brain and its difficulties and I wasn't able to get any day-to-day findings to improve my ability to communicate. Why else would I read the book.
Sorry didn't work for me.
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Dore - The Journey
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Our daughter is now 8 months into the Dore Program, we travel to the centre once every 6 weeks. We have an exercise program which she carries out twice a day for 10 mins. The website for Dore is www.dore.co.uk and you can learn a lot more about the program than I can tell you here.
This book is very easy to read, and clearly explains where they are coming from in this new treatment. I had my doubts, is it all too good to be true, is it all another money making venture. BUT we are now begining to see results! My daughter could hardly balance on one leg when we went and she is nearly 8, she now is beginning to. For reading she needed a ruler above and below the line to hold the words still, thanks to their eye tracking test and the subsequent prescribed exercises she now doesn't need anything.
8 months ago she was in the bottom group (even though one of the eldest in class) in maths and literacy, within a few months she was put up a group in maths, and since starting has gone up two reading levels - although still behind her peers we are seeing progress, her confidence is so much higher too and we are not even half way through the program yet.
Dyslexia is complex, and you seem to have to fight to get it recognised, the education system seems to like to see our children fail before they help them, instead of putting the supports in early to stop them failing. Dore is something we can do to help, and I believe it is really working.
I highly recommend this book to people wanting to find out more about Dore, and also to those of us on the Dore journey already, I have certainly found it has given me a more indepth understanding of the whole program and put my mind at rest on some little doubts...it is sad that we live in a world which makes us sceptical of things that are there to help us isn't it.
T.Etherton
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Dyslexia ; It can't be prevented, but it can possibly be cured!
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I am thrilled that Wynford Dore's message can now get through to so many other sufferers of this condition through the pages of his book.
Having spent most of my life battling with the often unacknowledged condition of Dyslexia, I finally completed the "Dore Programme" 2 years ago, at the age of 51 years.
I can honestly say that, since I completed this programme, my quality of life has improved significantly.
I will always be particularly grateful to Wynford Dore, for amongst other things, giving me the opportunity to begin to enjoy reading books.
The "Dore Programme", which is what this book is all about, should be readily available in our schools, to enable children with learning difficulties to be properly supported from the outset.
I would strongly recommend that you read "Dyslexia: The Miracle Cure", it could change your [or your child's] life. Speaking personally, the "Dore Programme" certainly changed mine.
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