About Our Staff

Jane Heywood BSc   

Jane Heywood is an experienced and licensed Davis^® Dyslexia Correction Facilitator who first became interested in the Davis methods in 1996.   She was trained by Ron Davis and others at the Reading Research Council in California.   Jane holds an honours degree in Psychology, and has been trained in counselling and trauma therapy.   She has worked in health care and used her counselling to support her patients.   She has experience of working in schools, specialising in the use of computers to support the school curriculum.   She helped to set up multi-disciplinary project in the school aimed at integrating a wide range of topics, including Mathematics, Geography and English.   She has also worked with young children in a kindergarten.   Jane has two dyslexic children, who have both been helped by the Davis methods.

Jane is interested in developing an intervention programme using the Davis methods to work with younger children.   She is also in the process of developing a method to help children learn to read music using the Davis^® principles.

Georgina Dunlop B.Ed   

Georgina Dunlop gained her accreditation as a Davis Dyslexia Facilitator in 2001.   She has a B.Ed in Physics.   She has also worked in primary schools providing reading and literacy support.   She became interested in the Davis methods having seen Jane use the Davis methods to help children and adults improve their literacy skills.  

Georgina has travelled widely and has worked in Hungary.   She has lived in the United States for four years and as a result understands the differences between the British and American education systems.

Please note that the Davis^® Dyslexia Correction Programme, including Davis^® Symbol Mastery and Davis^® Orientation Counselling may only be provided by persons who are trained and licensed through Davis Dyslexia Association International.