"To learn to read is to light a fire." - Victor Hugo

Dyslexia Therapy

We use Take Flight: a Comprehensive Intervention for Students with Dyslexia for students in 2nd grade-adult. Take Flight is a structured literacy program that is evidence-based and backed by research. It was written by the staff at Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders at Scottish Rite for Children’s Hospital and takes approximately 2-2.5 years to complete, on average. During our sessions, we will use current best practices to:

  • Strengthen phonological awareness skills through multi-sensory games and riddles.

  • Develop reading fluency through lesson aspects that focus on automaticity and prosody.

  • Uncover phonics patterns through a structured literacy approach, which is explicit, systematic, and multi-sensory.

  • Examine roots and affixes to aid in vocabulary understanding.

  • Foster comprehension development with techniques to improve thinking before, during, and after reading.

  • Improve spelling using a comprehensive word-study approach.

  • Strengthen writing skills through strategy instruction and model texts.

  • Connect all components of literacy to aid in the development of lifelong readers and thinkers.