Take-Flight Dyslexia Therapy
Rainbow Reading offers Take Flight Dyslexia Therapy: A Comprehensive Intervention for Students with Dyslexia, written by the staff of the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders at the Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital in Dallas, Texas. Take Flight intervention is for students with dyslexia or at risk of dyslexia, and the curriculum is based upon the research of Dr. Samuel T. Orton, a neuropsychiatrist, and the educational and psychological contributions of Anna Gillingham. Take Flight is designed specifically for Certified Academic Language Therapists and is intended for children seven years and older in individual and small group instruction. Therapy sessions are sixty minutes long and held four times weekly to achieve optimal results.
Rainbow Reading dyslexia therapy will focus on the following five components of effective reading instruction supported by the National Reading Panel: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and reading comprehension. In participating in the Take Flight curriculum, students will learn 44 English language sounds, 96 letter sound correspondence rules, and 87 affixes. Students will also engage in activities that teach spelling rules for base words and derivatives, oral practice fluency, grammar, cursive handwriting, essential language skills, and vocabulary-building strategies for narrative and informational text
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.
