Springs Literacy Center strives to provide all students who struggle with literacy aquisition the opportunity to learn in a different way that allows them to experience and achieve success. We are committed to providing instruction that is steeped in research based practices in order to best serve the individual needs of our students
Services
Diagnostic Dyslexia Evaluation
A comprehensive Diagnostic Evaluation will determine if your child is dyslexic or not. Evaluations include four or five formal standardized and norm-referenced assessments which will reveal strengths and weaknesses across academic and cognitive skills. Although we look at written language skills thoroughly, we also have to examine oral language and math skills to support the “unexpectedness” of difficulty with written language as is necessary for a diagnosis of dyslexia. This evaluation will provide you with concrete data that will help you better understand your child’s academic strengths and difficulties with written language. Most importantly to parents, we also provide concrete recommendations for moving forward. The formal documents, including a 15-20 page written report, can be used to help your child receive accommodations or services at school like a 504 Plan or an IEP.
Dyslexia Therapy
Although Dyslexia Therapy is not a "one size fits all" model, there are a few basic principles all well trained therapists adhere to. These are that the therapy be designed to teach all five pillars of literacy in a systematic, sequential, and explicit fashion.
At Springs Literacy Center we predominately use Take Flight: A Comprehensive Curriculum for Students with Dyslexia as our form of therapy, especially for children in 1st-4th grade.
The Take Flight curriculum is the gold standard of dyslexia curricula from the Luke Waites Dyslexia Research Center at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. It is a highly researched and proven-effecitive curriculum. It encourages intense small group or individual 1 hour sessions at least three times a week.
For older students, we rely on Multisensory Reading and Spelling from Neuhaus.
All instruction is tailored to meet individual needs, and supplemented with other research based materials from credible publishers.
Individualized Tutoring
Treating undiagnosed literacy deficits typically begins with an informal evaluation in order to appropriately assess current abilities. These assessments are then used to direct and tailor instruction to meet the individual needs of the student.
Commonly, this instruction includes explicit teaching of syllable types, multisyllabic words and common spelling rules and situations. However, it all depends on student need. We address a wide variety of literacy skills: oral language, vocabulary, fluency, word-level decoding/accuracy, spelling, reading comprehension, handwriting, grammar, writing, etc. Intervention plans are customized to each student in order to best serve them and maximize time.