Dyslexia Therapy Services

  • Hourly one-on-one dyslexia therapy for your student using Build (grades K-1), Take Flight (grade 1 - high school), or Jet (high school - 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. 

What is Jet ?

Jet: A Fast-Paced Reading Intervention (Jet) is a curriculum written by the staff of the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders of Scottish Rite for Children (SRC) hospital in Dallas, Texas. Jet is intended to meet the needs of older learners, i.e., individuals identified with dyslexia at some point after middle school. However, the more recent, Take Flight, is the model for the content and format of Jet. The Jet curriculum is Orton-Gillingham based and developed to enable students with dyslexia to achieve and maintain better word recognition, reading fluency, reading comprehension and aid in the transition from a therapy setting to “real world” learning. The unique feature of Jet is the much faster pace of presenting the same level of comprehensive instruction characteristic of Take Flight. While, for most students, Take Flight is delivered over the course of two school years, Jet can cover the same range of information in about one school year. The impetus for developing a fast-paced program is to meet the needs of learners who were not identified or did not receive effective dyslexia intervention in elementary or middle school. Jet is only accessible to Certified Academic Language Therapists (CALT) or Certified Academic Language Practitioners (CALP).

Jet addresses foundational reading component:

  • Phonemic Awareness – following established procedures for explicitly teaching 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 individuals read the newly encountered text more fluently

  • Vocabulary – featuring multiple word learning strategies (definitional, structural, contextual) and explicit teaching techniques with application in text

  • Reading Comprehension – teaching individuals to explicitly use and articulate multiple comprehension strategies in narrative and expository text (i.e., cooperative learning, story structure, question generation and answering summarization, and comprehension monitoring)