Skool•ed specializes in helping families & students navigate dyslexia.
If your child is experiencing difficulty reading, writing, or spelling, it may be the result of dyslexia.
Dyslexia is a lifelong condition that affects 20% of the population.
At Skool•ed, we believe that with the right support and strategies, individuals can thrive.
Structured dyslexia intervention & literacy instruction for students in grades K-12 with, or without, a formal diagnosis.
At Skool•ed, we believe that all students can benefit from a multi-sensory, explicit, and sequential structured approach to literacy instruction.
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What is Dyslexia?
Dyslexia is a neurological condition that often runs in families and has a genetic profile. Like many learning differences, it is on a spectrum. Some people will have mild difficulties, while others may have more significant challenges. Dyslexia is a common learning difference that is neuro-biological and hereditary in nature.
Individuals with Dyslexia experience difficulty reading. This can include decoding words, fluent word recognition, and spelling. These difficulties are the result of phonological deficits (hearing the small nuances in sound and how they relate to letters and words).
How do I recognize the signs of dyslexia in my child?
- Difficulty with phonemic awareness (hearing and manipulating sounds in words)
- Difficulty with rhyming words (phonological awareness)
- Difficulty learning letter sounds
- Slow / labor intensive oral reading
- Poor comprehension
- Poor spelling
Is my child’s dyslexia diagnosis tied to their intelligence?
No! People of all backgrounds and intellectual levels can have learning differences.
Sometimes, people mistakenly believe that the difficulties with dyslexia are primarily characterized by letter reversals, and that it is tied to intelligence.
Often, the difficulties with reading and spelling are “unexpected” considering a student’s cognitive abilities and effective classroom instruction.
Many people with learning differences are creative, think outside the box, and excel in areas like problem-solving, reasoning, and visual thinking. When students have to work so hard at decoding text, their comprehension, fluency and vocabulary can be impacted as secondary consequences.
When is dyslexia normally diagnosed?
Dyslexia can be identified as early as preschool age, but some people are not diagnosed until adulthood.
What program will you use to teach my child?
No one program will meet the needs of every learner.
At Skool•ed, instruction is fluid to meet the needs of your child. ALL of our instruction is based on best practices from the Science of Reading. Dyslexia support focuses on what neuroscience tells us about how the brain learns to read.
Our methodology is rooted in Orton-Gillingham which uses a multi-sensory approach to learning to open up new pathways in the brain. Our programs are systematic & sequential in their instruction: students work from a solid foundation.
Programs that we pull from include:
- Evidence Based Literacy Instruction (EBLI)
- Institute for Multi-Sensory Instruction (IMSE)
- Barton Reading & Spelling
- Reading Simplified
- Really Great Reading
- University of Florida Literacy Institute (UFLI)
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