Student therapy is the cornerstone of our work. We use an evidence-based dyslexia curriculum, which teaches dyslexic students in the way their brain processes information.
We tutor students at the Dyslexia Center, in the students’ school (with school approval), or online.
Our Take Flight program is a comprehensive intervention for students with Dyslexia, ages seven and older. This program is a two-year *Orton-Gillingham based curriculum written by the staff of the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children (TSRHC).
It is direct and systematic instruction and teaches reading and spelling with a strong emphasis on phonemic awareness and alphabetic code knowledge. Take Flight tutoring requires three 55 minute sessions per week, and our fee is $40 per lesson with a start up fee of $250 to cover student supplies.
Our Pre-Flight program uses BUILD: A K-1 early reading intervention program developed by TSRHC. BUILD uses similar practices to Take Flight, while aiming to meet the specific needs of kindergarten and first grade students struggling with reading.
Pre-Flight tutoring requires two 45 minute sessions per week, and our fee is $30 per lesson with a start up fee of $200 to cover student supplies.
Turbo Start: A Dyslexia Curriculum for Newly Identified Students with Dyslexia is a nine-week, evidence-based dyslexia intervention that can be used as part of a standard protocol dyslexia instruction program. It was developed by Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia (same at Take Flight), though Turbo Start lessons each stand alone.
SCDL is offered Turbo Start tutoring as a summer group tutoring option. The summer session will run Monday-Friday June 2nd-27th, July 7th-August 8th, and the cost is $1000 per student for the full summer session.
The Turbo Start summer program is open to children not currently served at SCDL, it will be repetitive for our current Take Flight, BUILD or JET students.
The full summer session is $1000. You can register here.
The multisensory lessons target five instructional components:
Phonemic awareness
Phonics
Fluency
Vocabulary
Reading comprehension
A consistent daily lesson plan cycle introduces new concepts and opportunities to practice skills in:
Alphabet knowledge
Reading
Handwriting
Spelling
Listening and reading comprehension
A comparison-group study published in a 1998 edition of the Journal of Learning Disabilities supports the effectiveness of the Dyslexia Training Program.
This study met the rigorous criteria for inclusion in the meta-analysis of the National Reading Panel, whose report was the basis for the No Child Left Behind Act. Based on extensive clinical research by top clinicians and educators, the use of the program continues to grow throughout Texas, the nation, and the world.
Click below to learn more about scientific research and evidence behind the “Take Flight” program.
*The Orton-Gillingham Approach is a direct, explicit, multisensory, structured, sequential, diagnostic, and prescriptive way to teach literacy when reading, writing, and spelling does not come easily to individuals, such as those with dyslexia.
