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Elevate Student Success is proud to offer dyslexia therapy using Take Flight, an evidence-based, comprehensive intervention based on the Orton-Gillingham curriculum written by the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas.
What is Take Flight?
Take Flight is based on the pioneering research of Dr. Samuel T. Orton, neuropsychiatrist, and the educational and psychological insights of Anna Gillingham. The Orton-Gillingham techniques for children lacking a talent for language became the basis of a pilot from 1965-1975 at the Language Laboratory at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas, TX. An interdisciplinary team worked to incorporate multisensory teaching techniques, current findings in learning theories, and discovery teaching into the Take Flight curriculum.
What makes Take Flight an effective intervention?
Take Flight addresses the five components of effective reading instruction identified by the National Reading Panel’s research and is a comprehensive Tier III intervention for students with dyslexia.
What are the 5 components of effective reading instruction?
What is Take Flight?
Take Flight is based on the pioneering research of Dr. Samuel T. Orton, neuropsychiatrist, and the educational and psychological insights of Anna Gillingham. The Orton-Gillingham techniques for children lacking a talent for language became the basis of a pilot from 1965-1975 at the Language Laboratory at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas, TX. An interdisciplinary team worked to incorporate multisensory teaching techniques, current findings in learning theories, and discovery teaching into the Take Flight curriculum.
What makes Take Flight an effective intervention?
Take Flight addresses the five components of effective reading instruction identified by the National Reading Panel’s research and is a comprehensive Tier III intervention for students with dyslexia.
What are the 5 components of effective reading instruction?
- Phonemic Awareness – Follows established procedures for explicitly teaching the relationships between speech-sound production and spelling-sound patterns.
- Phonics – Provides a systematic approach to single word decoding. Students learn 96 grapheme-phoneme correspondences.
- Fluency – Uses research-proven directed practice in repeated reading of words, phrases, and passages to help students read a newly encountered text more fluently.
- Vocabulary – Features multiple word learning strategies (definitional, structural, contextual) and explicit teaching techniques with application in the text. Students learn 87 affixes with an emphasis on English morphology. Students learn Latin roots and Greek combining forms.
- Reading Comprehension – Teaches students to explicitly use and articulate multiple comprehension strategies for narrative and expository text.
Meet our Take Flight Dyslexia Teachers
Susan Wood has been an educator in the Van Zandt county area for 19 years. She graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University in 1989 with a Bachelors of Business degree in Accounting. She was a stay at home mom for eight years before deciding to pursue teacher certification at Texas A&M Commerce. Upon completion of her teacher certification, she trained for two years at Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas to become a Certified Academic Language Therapist (CALT). She has since served as a dyslexia teacher and coordinator for 17 years. Her duties in this capacity have been to assess and identify students for dyslexia and service them utilizing the Take Flight dyslexia therapist intervention program from Scottish Rite Hospital.
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Becky Mayfield has been an educator in Van Zandt County for 26 years. She graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University with a BA in English in 1990. She decided to obtain teacher certification and began her teaching career as a 4th grade teacher in 1993. For the past 5 years she has been a Reading Interventionist for grades 3-5. After working so closely with struggling readers, she was inspired to pursue training specifically in dyslexia intervention. For the past year, she has trained at the Shelton School in Dallas in the Take Flight Program developed by Scottish Rite Hospital. She completed training while teaching the program throughout the 2018-19 school year and became a Certified Academic Language Practitioner (CALP).
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