Services
All programs offered are evidence-based educational interventions developed by the team at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. The therapist uses a structured literacy approach to meet the unique needs of the individual at every developmental stage. Take Flight, Build, Turbo Start, and Jet will be offered to tailor each individual’s intervention need.
Take Flight
Take Flight is a comprehensive intervention for students identified with dyslexia.
It contains the five components of effective reading instruction identified by the National Reading Panel:
Phonemic Awareness — the relationships between speech-sound production and spelling-sound patterns
Phonics — providing a systematic approach for single-word decoding
Fluency — using research-proven directed practice in the repeated reading of words, phrases and passages to help students read newly encountered text more fluently
Vocabulary – multiple word learning strategies and explicit teaching techniques with application in text
Reading Comprehension – teaching students to explicitly use and articulate multiple comprehension strategies
Build
Build is an Early Reading Intervention used to meet the needs of kindergarten and first grade students struggling with reading.
It addresses the five components of reading intervention:
Alphabet: the identification of letters, sequencing skills, and alphabetizing.
Letter/sound knowledge: individual letters and sounds, leading to the practice of reading words and sentences.
Phonological awareness: the relationships between speech-sound production, from rhyme to spelling.
Vocabulary: the direct teaching of strategies using context clues to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words.
Comprehension: the teaching of specific strategies used to identify the basic components of a story.
Turbo Start
Turbo is an evidence-based dyslexia intervention designed for newly identified students while awaiting placement in an intervention group.
Each component is taught developmentally using direct, systematic, cumulative, multisensory method of introduction and practice to meet the specific needs of newly identified students with dyslexia.
Jet
Jet is a fast-paced reading intervention designed for older students.
It addresses the five components of effective reading intervention identified by the National Reading Panel:
Phonemic Awareness — the relationships between speech-sound production and spelling-sound patterns
Phonics — providing a systematic approach for single-word decoding
Fluency — using research-proven directed practice in the repeated reading of words, phrases and passages to help students read newly encountered text more fluently
Vocabulary – multiple word learning strategies and explicit teaching techniques with application in text
Reading Comprehension – teaching students to explicitly use and articulate multiple comprehension strategies