Born in the United States and having a French mother, I started giving private French lessons when I was 15. In college (Smith, ’68), I majored in French Literature with minors in Spanish and Russian. After a few years spent teaching in New York, my husband and I moved to Switzerland where we found work at the Collège Alpin Beau-Soleil in Villars-sur-Ollon. There, I taught French in the Anglo-American section, then also started teaching Math in the same section, since I had always been good with numbers.

After more than 12 years at Beau-Soleil, having decided on a career change towards more numbers, I started night school to become an accountant. In 1986, we moved to Geneva with our two children and I found a job with an oil company, first as an accountant, then as controller. Finally, once again, I felt that it was time to move on.

In 2000, I decided that it was time to get back to my original interests which were teaching and helping others. In the course of some regular charity work I did for the Red Cross, I had been confronted with two young dyslexic students and it is in this field that I decided I wanted to specialize. The Davis® method of dyslexia correction seemed to me the most adapted to all languages since it deals more with the dyslexic and his or her problems, than with a specific language and its idiosyncrasies. For a Davis® Facilitator, the most important thing is to discover the client’s strengths (imagination, curiosity, and visual memory, amongst others), to make him or her aware of these strengths and then to help him or her make the best usage of these “gifts” in the study of the written language.

I have been doing Davis® Dyslexia Correction programs for more than four years and I am still just as thrilled with the results. It is really a pleasure to work with all these clients, adults and children, who ask only to learn… in a way that suits them.