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| Home / For your patient / speech, language & motor services / | ||
| Effective Therapy to Treat Dyslexia | ||
| HSDC offers individual and group treatment for reading disorders. These sessions
target the heart of reading disabilities: Phonemic awareness is the ability to separate words into individual sounds, and blend individual sounds into words. What makes words such as “played” and “blade” similar, and what makes them different? Targeted listening activities give a boost to the development of the area of the brain responsible for this skill. Phonics is the ability to associate a letter with its given sound(s). How should you pronounce “doe?” How should you pronounce “dough?” Activities at this level focus on decoding nonsense syllables and words in order to learn how to break the reading code. Fluency involves reading quickly and accurately. Reading accurately makes reading informative; reading quickly makes it fun. Increasing speed involves repeated oral reading with feedback, sight word instruction, and increasing speed with specific listening activities. Vocabulary development is crucial for progressing in reading at an age-appropriate level. Word-finding skills are targeted in activities designed to develop rapid sound and meaning associations between words, such as plant, planting, plantation, planter, and power plant. Comprehension focuses on strategies for chunking information, visualizing the picture being painted by the words, and formulating inferences and conclusions. At this level, work focuses on the whole text. At HSDC, making reading a complete, rewarding, and enjoyable experience is our overall goal that guides every decision made in treatment. Materials are chosen that suit each individual’s interests and needs, from Harry Potter to Harry S. Truman. We use our professional skills to share our enjoyment of reading with our clients. If you have a patient in the Seattle or Puget Sound area and would like to refer them for a free screening or an evaluation with one of the therapists in our speech pathology department, please contact us at:
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