Dyslexia is a general term for disorders that involve difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols, but do not affect general intelligence. Despite their struggles, Dyslexic students tend to have a strong imagination, thorough reasoning skills, and comprehension of new concepts. They grasp abstract ideas and story flows, accentuate meaning over memorization learning styles, and enjoy solving puzzles and building models. They also have the ability to read and understand highly-practiced words in an area of interest or expertise, and they tend to grasp the “big picture” while thinking outside of the box. Relatinally,  dyslexic students possess exceptional empathy, warmth, and expression of feelings, while exercising flexibility and maturity.

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Lexercise

Over 40+ years of experience toward creating structured literacy programs with a basic and a professional therapy tract. Geared toward all methods of childhood education while offering free dyslexia exams. Costs range from $150 – $395 depending on chosen tract.

C-Pen Reader

The C-Pen Reader is a scanning pen that displays a word definition and reads text aloud to support dyslexic children and adults with reading difficulties. $250.

Orton-Gillingham was the first teaching approach specifically designed to help struggling readers by explicitly teaching the connections between letters and sounds. It also pioneered the “multisensory” approach to teaching reading, which is considered highly effective for teaching students with dyslexia. This means that instructors use sight, hearing, touch and movement to help students connect language with letters and words.

Nessy Reading & Spelling offers classes, programs and educational methods with a multisensory activity and reading/spelling combination emphasis. Nessy also adheres to the Orton-Gillingham approach, meaning that each child receives instruction tailored to his or her specific needs. Educational packages and bundles range from $30 – $150 per year and are easily adaptable to other curriculums.

Reading Horizons is a research-based methodology that teaches foundational language skills in an explicit, systematic, sequential, and multi-sensory fashion. The program provides individuals with proven, Orton-Gillingham-based reading strategies from the most basic foundational skills through all five pillars of reading (i.e., phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension). Reading Horizons offers various instruction tracts and bundles ranging from $199 – $525.

An Orton-Gillingham approach to teaching, AAS offers a multi-sensory, hands-on, and built-in review system instruction method which helps children with or without disabilities. Packages range around $186 with a money-back-guarantee should outcomes prove unsatisfactory.

Logic of English provides approaches to reading and spelling instruction that are effective for all types of learners. The methods used align closely with those recommended by the International Dyslexia Association, and our materials work very well for dyslexic students. The Logic of English series is based on the multi-sensory Orton-Gillingham method, which has been used successfully for over eighty years to teach students with dyslexia, autism, and other disabilities. Packages range around $229.

The Barton Reading Program is a teaching method which is based on the highly structured Orton-Gillingham approach. It offers free, unlimited phone and online support. Lessons are highly structured and carefully scripted for people without educational training. It offers a multi-sensory approach to teaching and is geared toward a one-on-one dynamic. Various curriculum items range from $250 – $300.

The Dianne Craft Learning System identifies the symptoms of blocked learning gates and makes corrections using a successful three-pronged approach: Brain Integration Therapy, Right Brain Teaching Strategies, and Targeted Nutritional Strategies. Dianne Craft’s Brain Integration Therapy Manual teaches parents to informally diagnose their child’s processing problems and teaches specific daily exercises along with crucial once-a-week Brain Training sessions to make permanent connections between the two sides of the brain. There are specific exercises that address and correct Visual Processing (reading & eye tracking), Auditory Processing issues (Phonics, oral directions, math facts), and Visual/Motor/Writing (Dysgraphia). Dianne Craft’s Brain Integration Therapy is a “home depot” approach, meaning that it is in-expensive, in-home therapy. Packages range from $52 – $335.