Reading Intervention
What is Dyslexia Therapy?
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Students first complete an hour and a half evaluation with the therapist to identify treatment areas, such as phonological awareness, oral language, spelling, decoding, sight word recall, reading fluency, and writing composition skills. From that data goals and a customized lesson plan is created and reviewed with the family. Students then meet one-on-one with the therapist 1-4 times per week for 60 minutes each session to work through a curriculum based on the Orton-Gillingham approach. The curriculum is prescriptive, diagnostic, systematic, and multi-sensory. Students also work through curriculums targeting word origins, vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension, and composition skills. Written and/or verbal feedback is given to caregivers after each session. The student's progress is tracked each session to allow for a customized lesson plan for each meeting.
Reading Readiness
The Reading Readiness curriculum is designed for strengthening phonological awareness skills, such as rhyming, sound/letter correspondence, and syllable and sound manipulation. It utilizes multi-sensory, Orton-Gillingham based methods. Frequency and length of sessions is determined by the student's age and skill level.
What is Dyslexia?
​“Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the phonological component of language that is often unexpected in relation to other cognitive abilities and the provision of effective classroom instruction. Secondary consequences may include problems in reading comprehension and reduced reading experience that can impede growth of vocabulary and background knowledge.” -IDA
Diagnosis
A diagnosis is not required to receive reading intervention. Reading intervention is available on a less frequent schedule for any student or adult who is interested in improving reading or reading foundation skills, spelling, and writing abilities.
Unsure of next steps?
There are many reading programs to choose from and tons of advice online surrounding the best treatment. Trying to decide whats best for you and your child can be overwhelming. Feel free to schedule a call to discus what reading intervention would look like for your family. Sample evaluation reports and lesson plans are available upon request to get a better understanding of what reading intervention looks like through Emerson Speech.