Take-Flight Dyslexia Therapy
Rainbow Reading offers Take Flight Dyslexia Therapy, a comprehensive intervention designed for students with dyslexia or those at risk of developing it. This program was created by the staff at the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders at the Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital in Dallas, Texas. The Take Flight intervention is based on the research of Dr. Samuel T. Orton, a neuropsychiatrist, and the educational and psychological insights of Anna Gillingham. It is designed explicitly for Certified Academic Language Therapists and intended for children seven years and older. Instruction is provided in both individual and small-group settings. Therapy sessions are one hour long and are conducted four times a week to achieve optimal results.
Rainbow Reading's dyslexia therapy will emphasize five key components of effective reading instruction, supported by the National Reading Panel: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and reading comprehension. Students will learn 44 English language sounds, 96 letter-sound correspondence rules, and 87 affixes through the Take Flight curriculum. Additionally, students will participate in activities that teach spelling rules for base words and their derivatives, improve oral fluency practice, enhance grammar skills, develop cursive handwriting, and build essential language skills and vocabulary for both narrative and informational texts.
Dyslexia therapy is multisensory, systematic, and explicit in providing structured language intervention for students in Kindergarten through eighth grade.
“We should stop trying to get all children to think the same way. We should support and celebrate all types of neurodiversity and encourage children’s imagination, creativity and problem solving -the skills of the future.”
-Sir Richard Branson, dyslexic and founder of Virgin Galactic
See Dyslexia Differently.
For the special students out there with dyslexia, I see the many gifts that make you, uniquely you!
Celebrate your differences. Celebrate you. View the video below from The British Dyslexia Association.
