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Young Learners Under 8 years
Davis Concepts for Life® - Early Years Program,
Davis® Foundations for Reading &
Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment (Basic) Program
“Prevention is better than cure.”
Preparing every young learner with mental tools and fundamental concepts will equip them skills in successful learning and building relationships. For at risk children, it with greatly reduce the risk of learning challenges later in life.The Davis Concepts for Life® - Early Years Program provides powerful solutions for young learners who are struggling with focus, behavior or executive functioning. The Davis® Foundations for Reading is an individualized learning enhancement program with the conceptual skills needed to develop reading fluency and comprehension. The Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment (Basic) Program develops both children’s fundamental cognitive and learning skills and their emotional abilities.
Davis Concepts for Life® – Early Years Program
The Davis Concepts for Life® – Early Years Program is a holistic, foundational program that provides powerful solutions and wrap-around support for children. It has a clear, positive focus, enabling the child to build on their strengths and overcome challenges.
Who would benefit?
Children of 4-8 years who are struggling to meet developmental milestones this may include focus, behaviour, relationships, self-regulation, and /or executive functioning skills.
How does it work?
The Davis Concepts for Life® – Early Years Program is a four-step program. The program length is 20-40 hours.
Step 1
Tools for the support person
Each child’s support person learns two mental strategies to help them remain calm and relaxed while working with their child/student.
Step 2
Self-regulation Tools for the learner
The child is guided to learn and use a number of focusing tools and self-regulation strategies.
Step 3
Davis® Early Years Life Concepts
Concepts are introduced through demonstration and experienced together with the child in a fun way that appeals to their interest. Then the child is guided to create a clay model of their own choosing, which visually represents that concept.
Step 4
Integration of Life Concepts
After each concept is taught, the child needs to have lots of opportunities to recognize and experience the concept in the real world, with help from their support person.
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What kind of results do people see?
- better self-regulation (for e.g., able to calm themselves down)
- a willingness to try new things
- an increase in their willingness and capacity to play with others
- increased understanding of cause and effect
- can follow instructions easier
- improved behaviour
- will go along with others ideas or suggestions in work groups and play
Davis® Foundations for Reading
Davis® Foundations for Reading aims to provide young children with an introduction to Davis tools for attention focus and self-regulation, to learn the alphabet and use Davis techniques to acquire primary level pre-reading and reading skills, and to provide parents or other family members with the knowledge and experience to continue to support their children’s learning during early school years.
Who would benefit?
Appropriate for children age 5-8, and older children with significant developmental delays.
(Note: Children of this age who are already exhibiting dyslexia symptoms or reading anxiety may require some steps and program time beyond those outlined below.)
How does it work?
Prior to the Program
Perceptual Ability Assessment would be arranged prior to the program. It aims to explore about the challenges, learning styles, perceptual abilities as well as family support. The consultation takes around 1.5 hours.
The Davis® Foundations for Reading is a three-step program. It is delivered on a one-to-one basis. The length of program is approximately 30 hours, generally provided in half-day sessions over two or more consecutive weeks. Parent or support person will need to be present at least half of the program.
Step 1
Davis® Focusing Tools
The child will learn mental-focusing techniques to develop accurate perception, and establish the ability to regulate their focus, stress and energy levels.
Step 2
Davis® Symbol Mastery
The child will model and master the alphabet in clay, as well as learn how to use the process in learning the most common and basic words encountered in early reading such as “a”, “the”.
Step 3
Davis® Reading Exercises
The child and parent will learn how to use the Davis Reading exercises to develop reading tracking, fluency, and comprehension.
Home Practice and Follow-up Consultations
After the program, it is necessary to practice and consolidate learnt tools. A maximum of three post-program consultations would be arranged to support these exercises.
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Learn about application at schools.What kind of results do people see?
- Established self-awareness and control of focus
- Maintained good energy levels at learning
- More efficient word learning
- Increased interest in reading
- Enjoying learning
Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment (Basic) Program
The Feuerstein Instrumental Enrichment (Basic) Program [IE Basic] was developed by Prof. Reuven Feuerstein. Consisting of specially designed tasks, it creates systematic, persistent and structured conditions to engage young children in problem solving and reasoning. The program provides them with a firm foundation to become skillful and analytic learners.
Who would benefit?
Any child of 4-8 years would benefit from the Program.
How does it work?
Step 1
Learning Propensity Assessment Device
The Learning Propensity Assessment Device (LPAD) is the first step to IE Basic. It is consisted of a series of tests used to determine how an individual learns, which methods of teaching the individual best respond to, how much learning is retained and transferred to new and challenging tasks.
Step 2
IE Basic sessions
During the IE sessions, the trained Feuerstein mediator leads learners through increasingly complex cognitive tasks and works with them on how to analyze a problem and how to solve it systematically.
IE utilizes a style of teaching called mediation. In Feuerstein’s terms, mediation means to teach information to the learner in a way that is meaningful to them, so that they understand the lesson and are able to apply it in other contexts. Not only will the trainer work with individuals. Guidance to the support persons will be given to ensure that applications of thinking skills are transferred to all contexts for the individual.What kind of results do people see?
- Developed basic concepts for learning
- Starting to apply different cognitive strategies
- Better at problem solving
- Better logical thinking
- Improved social relationships
- Increased vocabulary repertoire and language skills
- Better intrinsic motivation to learn
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The Feuerstein Institute Children’s Clinic
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