OUR SERVICES
TAKE FLIGHT
A Comprehensive Intervention
for Students with Dyslexia
Your child will work directly with Lilly Moreno, Ph.D., Licensed Dyslexia Therapist, using the Take Flight curriculum developed by the staff of the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia & Learning Disorders of Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. It is a two-year research-based program that has been proven to be remarkably effective for dyslexic students in grades 2nd grade – 12th grade. An overview of the program follows.
Take Flight is a two-year curriculum written by the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders of the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. Take Flight is designed for use by Certified Academic Language Therapists (CALT). It is intended for small group instruction with no more than three students per class. Take Flight includes 132 lessons for a total of 230 hours of direct, systematic, cumulative, multisensory instruction. Students will meet three-four times a week for 1 hour.
Take Flight addresses the five components of effective reading instruction identified by the National Reading Panel's research and is a comprehensive intervention for students with dyslexia:
Phonemic Awareness
Following established procedures for explicitly teaching the relationships between speech-sound production and spelling-sound patterns
Phonics
Providing a systematic approach for single word decoding.
Fluency
Using research-proven directed practice in repeated reading of words, phrases, and passages to help students read newly encountered text more fluently
Vocabulary
Featuring multiple word learning strategies (definitional, structural, contextual) and explicit teaching techniques with application in text.
Reading Comprehension
Teaching students to explicitly use and articulate multiple comprehension strategies (i.e., cooperative learning, story structure, question generation and answering, summarization, and comprehension monitoring)
With Take Flight, students will learn all 44 sounds, 96 letter-sound correspondence rules, and the morphology of 87 affixes in the English language. The students will also learn spelling rules for base words and derivatives with additional practice opportunities provided to improve oral reading fluency. Finally, Take Flight introduces comprehension and vocabulary-building strategies for narrative and expository text in the context of oral reading exercises, preparing students for successful, life-long, independent reading.
Early learners in Kinder and 1st grade will follow a similar program called Build!
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Certified Academic Language Therapists
Our Certified Academic Language Therapists (CALT) work as a partner with you, your child, and the school to develop appropriate goals and services. Some students may need intensive dyslexia therapy, while others may need academic language support. Based on the needs and goals of your child, a tailored program will be determined.
What is a CALT?
Certified Academic Language Therapists (CALT) are specially trained to work with language-based learning differences, such as dyslexia and dysgraphia. They have completed an intensive training in multisensory structured language through a program that is accredited through International Dyslexia Association (IDA) and/or International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council, IMSLEC. The therapist level standards require that a CALT complete a 220 course contact hours in an accredited program, complete a minimum of 700 clinical teaching hours, complete 10 demonstration lessons, and pass the Alliance National Registration exam for Multisensory Structured Language Education. In addition, to maintain one's license as a CALT, they must complete 10 hours of continuing education each year.
Dyslexia Screening & Testing
We provide a solution for dyslexia testing! Parents will be referred to a psychologist who uses a combination of tests and provides you with a detailed report about dyslexia. Additionally, the report includes recommendations for accommodations and services.
Our Certified Academic Language Therapists are experts in the field of dyslexia and reading instruction. Students in dyslexia therapy may be seen in small groups or in a one-on-one setting based on need. Dyslexia therapy is an intensive program that is explicit, systematic and cumulative in its approach and incorporates multisensory instruction into all the components of literacy development.
Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapists can work with an individual who has dyslexia by creating individualized interventions that can aim improve a person's ability to engage in their life at home, school, even in their leisure activities such as play or drawing.
Our trained and Texas licensed Occupational therapists provide one-on-one sessions, which are play based in nature. Our therapy sessions are 1-hour standing appointments. Therapy consists of 50 minutes of direct one-on-one treatment time with 10 minutes of parent education and feedback. A variety of treatment techniques will be utilized in order to address the areas identified on the initial evaluation and by the goals set by the parent and therapist, as well as overall functional performance. Areas that may be addressed include: Fine motor skills, gross motor skills, postural control, sensory processing skills, reflex integration, praxis, self-help skills, visual perceptual and visual motor skills, handwriting, social skills, coping skills, self-concept and behavior.
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Brazoria County: +1 (979) 401 0965
309 Plantation Dr, Lake Jackson TX 77566
Mission Texas Location: +1 (214) 729 2873
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