Dyslexia Intervention
Dyslexia intervention is highly individualized and based on a child’s unique profile. The instructional approach is multisensory, explicit, systematic, diagnostic, and prescriptive, and is often referred to as Orton-Gillingham instruction or Structured Literacy. This approach ensures that students build their skills in each of the components of literacy:
- Phonemic awareness
- Sound-symbol association
- Syllable instruction
- Decoding (word reading)
- Encoding (spelling)
- Morphology (prefixes, suffixes, bases and roots)
- Syntax (sentence structure)
- Semantics (word meaning)
A link to further information about Structured Literacy can be found here:
https://dyslexiaida.org/what-is-structured-literacy/
Structured Literacy sessions are provided both in-person at the Language & Literacy Clinic or on Zoom. Lessons are generally 45 to 60 minutes in length; 30-minute sessions are available for younger children as needed. Parents may be asked to follow through with additional home practice activities to provide necessary repetition for learning.