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    LANGUAGE TO LITERACY PROGRAM
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  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?

 

 

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  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  
     
     
  Contact HSDC to learn more or to register!  
     
  Noreen Bucknum, MA, CCC-SLP
Literacy Lab Coordinator/Lead SLP
Phone 206.388.1278 / 206.388.1275 TTY
speech@hsdc.org
 
     
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