Services

• Speech and Language Treatment
  • Services provided at child’s home, school or alternate location
  • Speech, language, and/or reading treatment as appropriate
  • Strategy-based treatment reflecting evidence-based practice
  
  
  
• Consults
  • Report review and interpretation
  • IEP Consultation
  • Attend school conferences or staffings to provide input on language-learning issues
  
  
  
• Inservicing
  • Provide information to parent associations, teaching staff, and related professionals regarding speech and language development and disorders.
  • Offer strategies for curriculum modification
  • Recommend practical activities for in-home implementation
  
  
  
• The Lindamood Phonemic Sequencing® (LiPS®) for Reading, Spelling and Speech
  
  Many children and adults have difficulty judging sounds within words. Although they see letters correctly, they cannot detect and correct their errors in reading and spelling. This causes:
  
  
  • Decoding: Errors such as "steam" for stream, "imagination" for immigration, "claps" for clasps
  • Spelling: Errors such as "gril" for girl, "cret" for correct, "eqeutment" for equipment
  • Pronunciation Errors such as "death" for deaf, "flusterated" for frustrated
  
  The Lindamood Phonemic Sequencing® (LiPS®) Program (formerly called the ADD Program, Auditory Discrimination in Depth) successfully stimulates phonemic awareness. Individuals become aware of the mouth actions which produce speech sounds. This awareness becomes the means of verifying sounds within words and enables individuals to become self-correcting in reading and spelling, and speech.
  
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• The Wilson Reading System®
  
  The Wilson Reading System is a research-based reading and writing program. It is a complete curriculum for teaching decoding and encoding (spelling) beginning with phoneme segmentation. WRS directly teaches the structure of words in the English language so that students master the coding system for reading and spelling. Unlike other programs that overwhelm the student with rules, the language system of English is presented in a systematic and cumulative manner so that it is manageable. It provides an organized, sequential system with extensive controlled text to help teachers implement a multisensory structured language program.
  
  The basic purpose of the Wilson Reading System is to teach students fluent decoding and encoding skills to the level of mastery. From the beginning steps of the program, it also includes sight word instruction, fluency, vocabulary, oral expressive language development and comprehension.
  
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• EmPOWER
  
  EmPOWER is an instructional method for teaching students to write expository text. It is a step-by-step method that a student follows when writing an essay; the method makes clear the kinds of thinking, subroutines, and strategies needed to develop a well-written text. Using EmPOWER, the teacher mentors students through all stages of the writing process using a series of questions and strategies that build on one another. Together, they enable students to evaluate and analyze their assignments, see the organizational patterns of their thinking, transfer their thinking into structured text, and evaluate their written work.
  
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• Fast ForWord Family of Programs
  
  The Fast ForWord program is a reading intervention designed for K-12 students who are reading below grade level. The Fast ForWord program develops brain processing efficiency through intensive, adaptive exercises. It develops and strengthens memory, attention, processing rate, and sequencing—the cognitive skills essential for learning and reading success. The strengthening of these skills results in a wide range of improved critical language and reading skills such as phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, decoding, working memory, syntax, grammar, and other skills necessary to learn how to read or to become a better reader.
  
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