Improving Reading & LIFE for Learners is our Thing

I’m Dawn and I LOVE helping students of all ages discover that they CAN read with more ease than ever before.

I’m a passionate BC Certified teacher, multi-sensory therapeutic tutor and vision & eye coordination expert with Body Brain Learning. After many years researching learning differences including the neurobiology aspect, and body-based approaches, it’s rewarding to see the difference these programs make for students. 

Currently, my therapeutic tutoring work is primarily helping learners with their vision and motor coordination skills to improve both reading and learning. We use a proven process to assess and develop unique exercise programs for improving the ways the muscles of the eyes work together for accelerated leaps in learning.

Our Story Began with Vantage Vision

Alice Ross, founder of Vantage Vision & Reading was a long-time Educator in Kamloops, BC. She developed the foundation of our process with Dr. Len Demarchi, optometrist, in the 1960s to address learning disabilities or difficulties. Alice passed away in 2017 but her legacy lives on.

Milly Saville continued with the Vantage Vision & Reading programs from 1989 offering vision therapy services and a variety of training workshops to tutors that have taken their practices around BC, Alberta, Ontario and South Africa. Milly extended the outreach and awareness for the programs in many communities and is now retired while continuing to offer occasional training workshops.

Now Dawn Bast is continuing this legacy, adding her own expertise & supportive processes through Body Brain Learning.

We work with learners of all ages, we help by discovering and addressing particular underlying causes of learning difficulties.

Our approach focuses on developing and fine tuning vision skills necessary to read and to comprehend. These five skills include tracking & saccades, convergence, accommodation, and eye alignment and are intricately linked to activating and fine tuning neuroplasticity.

While we address underlying issues that go far beyond “needing glasses”, a visit to an optometrist is always recommended.

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Common Symptoms of Learning Difficulties

Reading Symptoms

  • Loses place while reading

  • Skips lines and/or words

  • Moves head to read

  • Gets headaches when reading

Writing Symptoms

  • Body is tense while writing

  • Poor spacing, size and form

  • Poorly organized

  • Problems note taking

  • Frequent erasing/correcting

    Behavioural Symptoms

  • Overactivity

  • Easily frustrated

  • Anxious/ nervous

  • Short attention span

  • Avoidance behaviours

Our Vision:

To work with people of all ages to collaboratively and creatively unlock their learning potential through body and brain-based programs, chosen specifically for each learner.