Dyslexia Therapy Services

  • Hourly one-on-one dyslexia therapy for your student using either the Build (grades K-1) or Take Flight (grades 1- adult) programs

  • Virtual or in-person tutoring is available

Email NikiSidlerCALT@gmail.com for tutoring rates and further details.

What is Take Flight?

Take Flight: A Comprehensive Intervention for Students with Dyslexia is a two-year (7 book) 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 (TSRHC) in Dallas, Texas. Take Flight is a curriculum that is evidence-based and backed by research. The program is designed specifically for individuals who have a language-based learning difference (dyslexia). It is a comprehensive, ungraded, structured, and sequential curriculum that utilizes multisensory techniques for basic instruction in reading, writing, and spelling. Take Flight is only accessible to Certified Academic Language Therapists (CALT), also known as dyslexia therapists, who have completed a 2-year graduate level course. 

What is Build ?

The Build program is written by the staff of the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children (TSRHC) in Dallas, Texas. Build is designed to meet the needs of the K-1 students who have been identified at risk for dyslexia. Build: A K-1 Early Reading Intervention is a 100-lesson reading intervention that addresses five specific components of reading intervention. Each component is taught developmentally using a direct, systematic, cumulative, multisensory method of introduction and practice to meet the specific needs of K-1 students struggling in reading. The five components are: Alphabet, Letter/sound knowledge, Phonological awareness, Vocabulary, Comprehension. Build is only accessible to Certified Academic Language Therapists (CALT), also known as dyslexia therapists, who have completed a 2-year graduate level course.