Provides evaluations for students suspected of having dyslexia and appropriate instructional intervention for students identified with dyslexia.

Dyslexia Services

Overview

FSISD’s Dyslexia Programs provides assessment and intensive small group interventions for students identified with dyslexia by using a multisensory teaching approach that includes phonological awareness, sound-symbol association, syllabication, orthography, morphology, syntax, reading comprehension, and reading fluency. Students receive daily intervention five days a week.

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Services


  • Dyslexia evaluations for students K-12


  • Dyslexia remediation – Pull-out for all elementary campuses and a scheduled class for all secondary campuses.


  • FSISD dyslexia remediation includes:

Take Flight at elementary campuses

Language Live at Middle and High Schools

General Information

DYSLEXIA

Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the phonological component of language that is often unexpected in relation to other cognitive abilities and the provision of effective classroom instruction. Secondary consequences may include problems in reading comprehension and reduced reading experience that can impede growth of vocabulary and background knowledge. (Adopted by the IDA Board, November 2002)

Programming

The FSISD Dyslexia programs provide reading interventions that incorporate all the components of instruction and instructional approaches described in The Dyslexia Handbook.

Critical, evidenced-based components of dyslexia instruction include:


  • Phonological awareness
  • Sound-symbol association
  • Syllabication
  • Orthography
  • Morphology
  • Syntax
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Reading Fluency

Delivery of dyslexia instruction includes all of the following:

Simultaneous, multisensory (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile)


  • Systematic and cumulative
  • Explicit instruction
  • Diagnostic teaching to automaticity
  • Synthetic instruction
  • Analytic instruction


Contact Us

Yvonne Herrera-GonzaleS,CALT

Anita Martnez,CALT

Dyslexia Coordinator, Evaluator, and Instructor

yvonne.hgonzales@fsisd.net

Dyslexia Evaluator and Instructor

anita.martinez@fsisd.net