Services

• Screen all Kindergarten students to ensure they have the pre-reading skills necessary to become strong readers. Parents will be notified and consulted if their child does not meet the benchmark.

• Screen older students who are having difficulty with reading and spelling to ensure they are equipped with the necessary tools to reach grade-level reading.

• Educate parents and teachers so that they understand how to support a child who matches the profile of dyslexia. Proper instruction will help these children overcome their weaknesses, allowing them to recognize and develop their God-given gifts, which often are masked because they struggle with reading, writing, and spelling. This is critical in helping a child reach their potential.

Occupational Therapists who work with children help them build the skills to be successful in their everyday lives.  Kids can learn these skills through 1:1 intervention, teacher training, modifications made in the classroom, and homework ideas.  These skills are individualized and unique, just like every child, and include things like play skills and motor coordination.

These challenges, which seem like bad habits or behaviors, are red flags! They are indicators of neuro-developmentally immature systems. Intervention can make a big difference! Through specific guided Occupational Therapy activities for home and school, neurodevelopmental changes can be made and school performance can greatly improve!
Occupational Therapists who work with children help them build on foundational skills. Each intervention program is individualized and unique, just like every child. OT intervention may address things like play skills, motor coordination for function (handwriting, scissor use, pencil grip, visual tracking or perceptual skills), foundational skills (balance, directional sense, reflex integration and sensory processing) or self-regulation.

• Occupational Therapists use testing tools to look at underlying causes for learning struggles.

• Speech Therapy - 

• Offer tips and tricks that teachers can use in the classroom that address a specific student's needs that is fun and beneficial for all students.

• Provide specific tools and the training necessary to incorporate these tools in the schools so students have access to them throughout the day.

•  Offer support to parents, the primary educators, in understanding a variety of ways to support the uniqueness of their children.

• We will train tutors to deliver an Orton-Gillingham based program which is the only type of reading program that has been scientifically proven to support the dyslexic learner. 

• Students will receive one-on-one instruction for three hours a week. It will take 18 to 36 months for most students to complete the entire program. Summer tutoring is strongly recommended so that students don't fall further behind and so that tutors can close the gap more quickly.

• If you or someone you know would like to become a tutor please contact dyslexia@learningatrium.org. A love of students and a commitment of your time is all you need to change a young person's life through the gift of reading.