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Students determined to have indicators of dyslexia will receive therapy using Take Flight: A Comprehensive Intervention for Students with Dyslexia developed by Scottish Rite for Children. 

  • Does your child have a large vocabulary but has trouble learning to read?  

  • Does your child have difficulty learning their letters? 

  • Does your child struggle with reading fluency? 

  • Does your child struggle to read and spell words correctly? 

  • Does your child struggle with timed tests? 

  • Does your child have poor handwriting? 

Your child may have characteristics of dyslexia. 

Signs of Dyslexia

Preschool - Kindergarten

  • Delay in talking; articulation problems

  • Difficulty recognizing and producing rhymes

  • Difficulty remembering written information, such as letter names (also phone numbers and addresses)

  • Difficulty remembering and following directions

  • Difficulty matching words by initial sound

Grades 1 -3

  • Difficulty learning sound/symbol correspondences

  • Persistent confusion of visually similar letters (b/d/p, w/m, h,n, f/t)

  • Confusion of letters whose sounds are similar (d/t, b/p, f/v)

  • Difficulty remembering basic sight vocabulary (e.g. colors)

  • Problems segmenting words into individual sounds and blending sounds to form words

  • Reading and spelling errors that involve difficulties with sequencing and monitoring

  • Sound/symbol correspondence such as reversals of letters (past/pats), omissions (tip/trip), additions (slip, sip), substitutions (rib/rib) and transpositions (stop/pots)

  • Omission of grammatical endings in reading and/or writing (-s, -ed, -ing, etc.)

  • Difficulty remembering spelling words over time and applying spelling rules when writing

Grades 4-5

  • Significant difficulty reading and spelling multisyllabic words, often omitting entire syllables as well as making single-sound errors

  • Lack of awareness of word structure (prefixes, roots, suffixes)

  • Frequent misreading of common sight words (e.g., where, there, what, then, when)

  • Difficulty with reading comprehension and learning new information from text because of underlying word recognition difficulties

  • Difficulty in comprehension of text because of underlying oral language problems affecting vocabulary and grammar

  • Significant difficulty in writing related to problems in spelling and organization

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