Each Davis Program is designed to suit your specific needs and goals!

The Davis® Mastery for Dyslexia Program (8-Adult)

The Davis® Mastery for Dyslexia program is built on two powerful components that work together to create lasting change: Orientation Counseling and Symbol Mastery. Every Davis program includes both—because together, they help neurodivergent learners take control of their focus, their confidence, and their ability to understand language in a whole new way.

Orientation Counseling: Reclaiming Focus
Many individuals with dyslexia, ADHD, or autism experience moments of disorientation—mental states where letters, numbers, or instructions seem to shift, blur, or lose meaning. These moments aren’t signs of laziness or lack of effort—they’re the result of a unique, picture-based thinking style reacting to confusion.

Through Davis Orientation Counseling®, clients learn a simple, effective mental technique to recognize and shift out of these disoriented states. Instead of confusion or overwhelm, they learn to return to a calm, focused, and alert mindset—one that supports reading, comprehension, and learning. This foundational skill becomes the key to unlocking the rest of the program.

Symbol Mastery: Making Learning Stick
Once the mind is oriented, it’s time to build deep, lasting understanding—starting with the symbols of language. Davis Symbol Mastery® helps learners connect meaning to letters, words, and punctuation by engaging their natural strengths: visual-spatial thinking, creativity, and hands-on learning.

Using clay, students first model foundational symbols like letters, numbers, and punctuation marks to ensure accurate perception. Then they tackle the real troublemakers: small, abstract “trigger words” like and, the, of, if, or was—words that don’t easily form mental pictures and often cause reading breakdowns.
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Through this process, students create a three-dimensional clay model of each word’s meaning alongside the word itself. This isn’t rote memorization—it’s true mastery. By anchoring words in meaning and creativity, learning becomes permanent.
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Davis® Foundation for Reading Program (Young Learners)

The Davis Foundations for Reading Program is designed for "at risk" children ages 5-7 years old. This parent-coached program prepares children with the essential tools to learn to focus and create solid foundations for learning language. Because parents are involved, they learn how best to help their children learn the fundamentals of reading, writing, and spelling into the future.

More information on the Davis® Foundations for Reading Program (external link)

Davis® Mastery for Math Program

Math difficulties can be incredibly frustrating for everyone involved. Dyscalculia, the word used to describe "math dyslexia" is actually very common.

In addition to obtaining the Orientation techniques that all Davis programs provide, clients of the Davis Mastery for Math program master concepts that are critical to understanding math, using the Davis Concept Mastery techniques. Some of these concepts include:
  • Change
  • Consequence
  • Cause/Effect
  • Before/After
  • Time (without the concept of time, math will continue to be a problem)
  • Sequence (working with math in symbols requires understanding sequential steps)
  • Order/Disorder (putting math into symbols requires that the numerals be in their proper places, proper positions and proper conditions)
Using clay, clients then look at math fundamentals, including:
  • Addition
  • Subtraction
  • Multiplication
  • Division
  • Fractions
  • The base-ten system of numerals
  • Decimals
With that mastery comes the ability to understand the core parts of mathematics and, in turn, clients begin the process of working with numeric symbols on paper.

As with the Davis Dyslexia Correction Program, non-pictorial words like and, if, as, and other words used in math problems will need to be mastered, using the Symbol Mastery process and the math definitions provided in the Student Manual.

Davis® Mastery for Attention Program (ADD/ADHD)

ADD/ADHD is typically defined by deficits in attention, behavioral difficulties, and inappropriate energy levels in various situations. Equipped with the Davis tools, clients are taught how to self-monitor:
  • Focus/Attention (Orientation Counseling)
  • Internal Energy-Levels
  • Stress-Management Techniques
In addition to these highly effective tools, clients of the Attention Mastery program master concepts that address behavioral/life situations, using the Davis Concept Mastery techniques. Some of these concepts include:
  • Self (How do I relate in this world and to others?)
  • Change
  • Consequence (How do my actions create consequences? — Good or bad!)
  • Cause/Effect (What caused this scenario to happen? What was the effect?)
  • Before/After
  • Time
  • Sequence
  • Order/Disorder (Executive Functioning)

Davis Concepts for Life® Program (Executive Function and Life Skills)

The Davis Concepts for Life® Program is designed for individuals of any age who are ready to make meaningful, lasting change. Whether you're looking to build better habits, reduce stress and anxiety, improve relationships, increase focus, or gain clarity about your next chapter—this program offers a practical, empowering path forward.

Using the unique Davis approach, this program helps individuals shift from overwhelm and confusion to confidence and control. It’s ideal for adults and older teens who are ready to take ownership of their lives and learn how to thrive—on their own terms.

Real Tools. Real Change.

Clients who complete Davis Concepts for Life report powerful, wide-reaching improvements, including:
  • Greater self-awareness and emotional insight
  • Tools to reduce stress and restore calm
  • Improved focus and mental clarity
  • The ability to monitor and regulate energy and emotions
  • Better listening and communication skills
  • A deeper understanding of cause and effect in daily life
  • Stronger time management and task completion
  • More effective organization and planning
  • The ability to create order in their physical and mental space
  • A framework for self-responsibility and personal decision-making
  • Insight into healthy boundaries and relationship dynamics
  • The confidence to make choices that align with their true self
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For Younger Learners: Concepts for Life—Early Years

For children who experience frequent anxiety, disorganization, difficulty listening, or challenges with peer relationships, the Concepts for Life—Early Years program provides developmentally appropriate tools to help them build emotional regulation, trust, and resilience from the start.
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Whether for adults seeking clarity or children needing support with everyday challenges, Davis Concepts for Life offers practical, heart-centered tools that create lifelong change.
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Davis Autism Approach® 

The Davis Autism Approach® is a groundbreaking program created by an autistic individual for autistic individuals. It offers a respectful, non-invasive, and truly empowering way to support neurodivergent people—especially those on the autism spectrum—in making sense of the world and finding their place within it.

Unlike methods that aim to change behavior or “fix” autism, the Davis Autism Approach recognizes autism as a difference, not a deficit. We see individuals on the spectrum as highly aware, deeply perceptive, and often incredibly advanced in ways the world doesn’t always understand. What they need is support navigating a world that can feel overwhelming, chaotic, or confusing.
This program provides that support in a gentle, structured, and intuitive way—building from the inside out.

A Roadmap to Participation in Life

Through the Davis Autism Approach, individuals engage with a carefully-sequenced series of core life concepts—such as change, consequence, time, order, and responsibility—that form the foundation of how we relate to ourselves, others, and the world. These abstract ideas are made tangible through clay modeling and real-world exploration, allowing each person to internalize the meaning through experience.
Along the way, clients develop:
  • Greater self-awareness and emotional grounding
  • Improved understanding of social relationships and boundaries
  • Tools to self-regulate and manage sensory input
  • Clarity around identity, decision-making, and life participation
The result is not conformity—but empowerment. The ability to live life with more confidence, independence, and connection.

Davis Stepping Stones: For Early Learners & Non-Speaking Individuals

Davis Stepping Stones is a developmentally adapted version of the program designed for young children—or for individuals who are non-speaking or pre-conceptual. It offers a nurturing and respectful way to build early awareness of self, others, and environment, supporting foundational growth in areas such as:
  • Emotional regulation
  • Listening and connection
  • Trust and safety
  • Engagement with routines and relationships
This program meets each individual exactly where they are, offering tools that promote calm, connection, and a growing sense of self within the world.
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Program Prerequisites

For the Davis Programs to be effective, a person must be personally motivated and willing to improve some aspect of learning or school performance.

The Davis programs are DRUG FREE solutions to Dyslexia and ADD/ADHD. Therefore, before a program can be scheduled, clients must disclose all medications. If you have any questions about these requirements, please call 978-337-7753 or email [email protected].

Programs Include:

  • One-to-one facilitation (parent coaching for children under 8 and/or those participating in the Davis Autism Approach program.
  • Support training for client’s family, tutor(s) or teacher(s) to ensure post-program follow-up and success.
  • All necessary take-home materials for program follow-up.
  • Three return follow-up visits (if necessary) and unlimited phone/email consultations.