{"id":11895,"date":"2025-03-31T19:06:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T18:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davismethod.com\/facilitator\/sofia-vassalo-santos\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T11:17:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:17:47","slug":"sofia-vassalo-santos","status":"publish","type":"facilitator","link":"https:\/\/davismethod.com\/nl\/facilitator\/sofia-vassalo-santos\/","title":{"rendered":"Sofia Vassalo"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":11893,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[132,64,65,66,67,113],"class_list":["post-11895","facilitator","type-facilitator","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-hub_davis_learning_foundation_dyslexia","tag-davis-foundations-for-reading-program","tag-davis-mastery-for-attention-program","tag-davis-mastery-for-dyslexia-program","tag-davis-mastery-for-math-program","tag-language_portuguese"],"acf":{"pronouns":"she\/her","city":"LISBOA","state_province":"Portugal","state_province_2":"Portugal","certifications":"<span class='facilitator-certification'>Degree in Psychology (University of Lisbon)<\/span><span class='facilitator-certification-separator'> &bull; <\/span> <span class='facilitator-certification'>Postgraduate Diploma in Brief Psychotherapies (ISPA, Lisbon)<\/span>","will_travel":"N","available_online":"N","delivery_language":"<span class='facilitator-language-name'>Portuguese<\/span><span class='facilitator-language-description'>Portuguese (Portugu\u00eas)<\/span>","bio":"Sofia Vassalo \u00e9 licenciada em Psicologia Educacional e tem uma p\u00f3s-gradua\u00e7\u00e3o em Psicoterapias Breves de Orienta\u00e7\u00e3o Psicanal\u00edtica. Trabalha com crian\u00e7as e adolescentes com dificuldades de aprendizagem desde 1996. Em 2001, tomou conhecimento de Ronald Davis quando leu o seu livro <i>The Gift of Dyslexia<\/i>, numa altura em que procurava compreender melhor a dislexia, bem como o tipo de pensamento e de funcionamento cognitivo que via nas crian\u00e7as e jovens que acompanhava. Tudo lhe fez imenso sentido! Tornou-se facilitadora Davis em 2007. Na sua pr\u00e1tica como facilitadora Davis tem sido muito compensador ver como \u00e9 importante para estas crian\u00e7as e jovens com dislexia perceberem, finalmente, que n\u00e3o s\u00e3o \u201cpregui\u00e7osos\u201d ou menos inteligentes do que os outros, mas que \u00e9 o seu pensamento que por vezes \u00e9 diferente ou se confunde, assim como a sua falta de aten\u00e7\u00e3o n\u00e3o \u00e9 um defeito, mas antes uma carater\u00edstica que est\u00e1 para al\u00e9m do seu controlo. <br>Trabalhar desde 2007 e ajudar, atrav\u00e9s do M\u00e9todo Davis, muitas crian\u00e7as, jovens e at\u00e9 adultos com dificuldades nas \u00e1reas da leitura, escrita, aten\u00e7\u00e3o e matem\u00e1tica a libertarem-se do estigma que \u00e9 a dislexia e a continuarem os seus estudos para poderem realizar os seus sonhos profissionais tem sido muito gratificante para a Sofia. No fundo, v\u00ea-los transformar a sua pr\u00f3pria dislexia num poderoso aliado. Ela \u00e9 uma facilitadora Davis apaixonada pelo que faz e, para ela, cada programa Davis \u00e9 uma nova aventura, sendo a maior recompensa de todas conhecer e trabalhar com pessoas t\u00e3o dotadas, ajud\u00e1-las a aprender a ultrapassar as suas dificuldades, v\u00ea-las atingir os seus objetivos e deixar transparecer o seu enorme talento!<br><br>Sofia Vassalo has a degree in Educational Psychology and a postgraduate qualification in Psychoanalytic Brief Psychotherapy. She has been working with children and adolescents with learning difficulties since 1996. In 2001, she learnt about Ronald Davis when she read his book <i>The Gift of Dyslexia<\/i>, at a time when she was trying to better understand dyslexia, as well as the type of thinking and cognitive functioning she saw in the children and young people she worked with. It all made so much sense to her! She became a Davis facilitator in 2007. In her practice as a Davis facilitator, it has been very rewarding to see how important it is for these children and young people with dyslexia to finally realise that they are not \u201clazy\u201d or less intelligent than others, but that it is their thinking that is sometimes different or confused, just as their lack of attention is not a defect, but rather a characteristic that is beyond their control. <br>Working since 2007 and helping, through the Davis Method, many children, young people and even adults with difficulties in reading, writing, attention and maths to free themselves from the stigma that is dyslexia and to continue their studies so that they can fulfil their professional dreams has been very rewarding for Sofia. Basically, watching them turn their own dyslexia into a powerful ally. She is a passionate Davis facilitator for whom every Davis programme is a new adventure and the greatest reward of all is getting to know and work with such gifted people, help them learn to overcome their difficulties, see them achieve their goals and let their enormous talent shine through!","testimonial_1":"Fic\u00e1mos muito felizes e satisfeitos por toda a aten\u00e7\u00e3o e tratamento dispensados pela Sofia \u00e0 nossa filha. Muito obrigado por tudo! Constatamos que as ferramentas e habilidades compartilhadas j\u00e1 est\u00e3o fazendo uma grande diferen\u00e7a na rotina pessoal e estudantil da nossa filha. Est\u00e1 muito mais aut\u00f3noma e j\u00e1 consegue amarrar os cadar\u00e7os sozinha, o que constituiu para ela uma grande conquista! Ela tem evolu\u00eddo bastante! A leitura est\u00e1 muito melhor e, com certeza, tudo ficar\u00e1 ainda melhor!<br>- Pais de uma cliente de 10 anos<br><br>We were very happy and satisfied with all the attention and treatment Sofia gave our daughter. Thank you so much for everything! We can see that the tools and skills shared are already making a big difference to our daughter's personal and student routine. She is much more autonomous and now she can tie the shoelaces by herself, which is a great achievement for her! She's made a lot of progress! Her reading has improved considerably and, for sure, everything will get even better!<br>- Parents of a 10-year-old client","testimonial_2":"Fazer o programa Davis permitiu-me aprender e desenvolver ferramentas que me t\u00eam sido muito \u00fateis no curso de mestrado que acabei de iniciar. O programa ajudou-me a superar as dificuldades que senti, desde que era crian\u00e7a, na leitura e, sobretudo na escrita. Tudo faz imenso sentido, agora! Usando as t\u00e9cnicas Davis, consigo ler e escrever com mais clareza e rapidez. Sinto-me muito mais seguro e confiante e a ajuda da Sofia em todo o processo foi imprescind\u00edvel!<br>- Jovem adulto (23 anos)<br><br>Completing the Davis programme allowed me to learn and develop tools that have been very useful to me in the master's degree course I've just started. The programme has helped me overcome the difficulties I've struggled since I was a child in reading and, above all, in writing. Everything makes so much sense now! Using the Davis techniques, I can read and write more clearly and quickly. I feel much more secure and confident and Sofia's help throughout the whole process has been indispensable!<br>- Young adult client (age 23)","testimonial_3":"","testimonial_4":"","testimonial_5":"","hub":"Davis Learning Foundation Dyslexia ++","latlong":"(38.716579,-9.153069)","ldap_userid":"sofia-vassalo-santos","license_from_date":"20070328","country":"Portugal","name_pre_post":"","email":"sofia.vassalo@davismethod.com","pre_nominals":"Mrs.","post_nominals":"","display_name":"Sofia Vassalo","on_holiday":"N","on_holiday_until":"","autism_sabbatical":"","dyslexia_sabbatical":"","limited_profile":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sofia Vassalo - Davis - English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/davismethod.com\/nl\/facilitator\/sofia-vassalo-santos\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"nl_NL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sofia Vassalo - 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