Reading Remediation in Clearwater, FL

Reading Remediation, also known as Language-Literacy Therapy or Dyslexia Therapy, is designed to create individualized treatment plans for explicit and systematic instruction to remediate difficulties with reading, writing, spelling, and reading comprehension in our Clearwater, FL clinic.

About Our Program

We provide an individualized, reading remediation program, based on the child’s specific deficits.  These deficits are identified through an in-depth, language-literacy evaluation in our Clearwater, FL clinic, which looks at all areas that affect reading, writing, and spelling development.  Once the deficits have been identified, an individualized reading remediation plan is developed.  Our program is designed to close the gap between a child’s current, academic performance and his/her potential.  We provide explicit and systematic instruction, so the child can overcome his/her struggles with reading development.  The idea is to create a positive setting, where the child can experience success with reading, writing, and spelling.

What Does a Reading Remediation Evaluation Look Like?

We have created a language literary program that starts with a comprehensive evaluation process. We have two options for testing that identifies the specific needs for each child.

• The Academic Function Evaluation consists of four, 2-hour testing sessions.
• The Language-Literacy Evaluation consists of two, 2-hour testing sessions. 

 Included in both testing options:

• Parent and child interview information
• Receptive and expressive language
• Phonological awareness
• Reading fluency and accuracy
• Spelling/decoding
• Reading comprehension
• Letter-sound correspondence
• Working memory
• Word finding
• Rapid automatic naming
• Math
• Rote facts (address, phone number, days of the week, months of the year)

 Also included within the evaluation process:

• One, 1-hour parent conference to go over results, where the following are provided:
  • Comprehensive written report with analysis
  • Research-based academic and classroom accommodations
  • Parent resources
  • Time to ask questions

Therapy Tools We Use:

• Barton Reading and Spelling System
• Wilson Reading System
• Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® Program for Reading, Spelling, and Speech (LiPS®)
• Lindamood-Bell Seeing Stars®: Symbol Imagery for Phonological and Orthographic Processing in Reading and Spelling
• Lindamood-Bell Visualizing and Verbalizing®
• Interactive Metronome®
• Variety of Reading Progression Books

Who Will Benefit from Reading Remediation?

Our program is designed to improve reading, writing, spelling, working memory, and reading comprehension skills. Reading remediation is provided for:

• Children with dyslexia or related reading disorders
• Children who struggle with encoding (spelling) and decoding (sounding out)
• Children who read accurately, but struggle with comprehension
• Children who struggle with reading fluency/speed

What Does a Session Look Like?

Our program uses materials from several different reading remediation programs and consists of scientifically-proven, research-based methods, that follow Orton-Gillingham principles.  During a therapy session a child will receive:

• 1:1 instruction with a highly skilled, speech-language pathologist
• Instruction with research-based methods
• Opportunities to improve reading accuracy and fluency
• Opportunities to improve phonological awareness
• Positive instruction in written expression
• Movement breaks which incorporate our therapy gym