Language to Literacy Program
Does Your Child...
- Have difficulty paying attention and listening?
- Have difficulty asking for help or repetition when they don't understand something?
- Have difficulty following directions or remembering information?
- Have difficulty staying organized?
- Forget homework assignments and books?
- Finish their homework, but not hand it in to the teacher?
- Have difficulty understanding syllables & sounds in words?
- Have a poor vocabulary or difficulty remembering the meaning of new words?
- Have a diagnosis of a receptive language disorder, an expressive language disorder, or a central auditory processing disorder?
- Have difficulty pronouncing words, spelling words, or understanding what they have read?
HSDC's Language to Literacy Program May Be Able to Help!
10-week sessions are held in Fall, Winter & Summer.
The program is available to students 6-16 years of age who face language and literacy challenges. At HSDC, we believe poor reading skills are based in language problems, and the following skills are critical to successful reading - as well as success both in and outside the classroom.
Phonological Awareness & Phonics
Hearing, identifying, manipulating and spelling the sounds of spoken language
Receptive and Expressive Language
Understanding and using vocabulary, grammar and concepts
Auditory Processing
What you do with what you hear
About the Language to Literacy Program
Children begin establishing the building blocks for successful literacy in early infancy. Somewhere along the way our students missed some of these skills. HSDC employs a back-to-basics approach, teaching the fundamentals and then building upon them. The Language to Literacy Program is not a tutoring program. It is a therapeutic speech-language intervention that yields results by using a research-based curriculum to target critical foundational skills for language and reading success. Each class is staffed by two licensed speech-language pathologists and one classroom aide for every 6-8 students. Parent education includes in-services, weekly meetings, and daily homework with their child. Results of post-testing at other sites show significant improvements on standardized tests - and more importantly, parent and teacher reports of functional improvements in the classroom and at home.
Goals of the Language to Literacy Program include...
- Establishing and improving organization skills
- Equipping students with compensatory strategies for improved attention, listening, and memory
- Teaching students to be self-advocates and utilize resources
- Improving phonological awareness and phonics skills
- Enhancing writing and word attack skills
- Improving language skills by building vocabulary, spelling skills, and reading comprehension
Created by Buffalo Hearing & Speech Center (BHSC)
Contact Preschool & Early Learning
Hearing, Speech & Deafness Center (HSDC)
Artz Communication Center
1625 19th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
Direct 206.388.1300
Voice 206.323.5770
Videophone (Voice to Video) 206.452.7964 / 866.410.3363
TTY 206.388.1275
Fax 206.388.1301
Email education@hsdc.org / contact
