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