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Dyslexia Tutoring
Take Flight: A Comprehensive Intervention for Students with Dyslexia is an Orton-Gillingham based curriculum written by the staff of the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas. The program utilizes a multisensory approach that has been proven to be highly effective in maximizing learning, particularly for students with dyslexia or other learning differences. By engaging auditory, visual, and kinesthetic channels simultaneously, Take Flight reinforces concepts and strengthens neural pathways.
This program incorporates techniques such as sky-writing, tactile tracing, and cursive handwriting, allowing students to connect the sensory experiences of hearing sounds, seeing letters, and physically forming them. These strategies support a deeper understanding of phonemic and graphemic relationships, which are critical for reading and spelling development.
By employing a structured, comprehensive, sequential, and cumulative methodology, Take Flight ensures that learning builds progressively. This approach provides students with a strong and lasting foundation for academic success.
WHAT ARE THE 5 COMPONENTS OF EFFECTIVE READING INSTRUCTION?
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Phonemic Awareness: Follows established procedures for explicitly teaching the relationships between speech-sound production and spelling-sound patterns.
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Phonics: Provides a systematic approach to single word decoding. Students learn 96 grapheme-phoneme correspondences.
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Fluency: Uses research-proven directed practice in repeated reading of words, phrases, and passages to help students read a newly encountered text more fluently.
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Vocabulary: Features multiple word learning strategies (definitional, structural, contextual) and explicit teaching techniques with application in the text. Students learn 87 affixes with an emphasis on English morphology. Students learn Latin roots and Greek combining forms.
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Reading Comprehension: Teaches students to explicitly use and articulate multiple comprehension strategies for narrative and expository text.
HOW IS STRUCTURED LITERACY TAUGHT?
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Simultaneous and Multisensory: In order to enhance learning and memory, all learning pathways in the brain (visual – auditory – kinesthetic – tactile) are engaged simultaneously.
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Systematic and Cumulative: Organization of the material follows the logical order of the English language. Instruction begins with the most simple elements and progresses to the most difficult concepts. Each lesson is built on the previous concept learned and content is regularly reviewed to enhance retention.
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Direct Instruction: Multisensory language instruction includes the direct teaching of all concepts. The therapist does not assume students have learned all of the skills.
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Diagnostic Teaching: The instructional plan for every student is based on continuous assessment of individual needs with the goal of content being mastered to the degree of automaticity.
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Synthetic and Analytic Instruction: Synthetic instruction presents the parts of the language and how they work together to form a whole. Analytic instruction presents the whole of language and demonstrates how it can be broken down into parts.
Empirical Research on Take Flight
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29134479/