Dyslexia Associates of San Antonio

Turning Stumbling Blocks into Stepping Stones for Those With Reading Issues

Fellow Educators,

I once attended a workshop for a publishing company claiming to have a reading curriculum for at-risk readers. They boasted "multi-sensory learning " techniques.

Their idea of multi-sensory learning was for the child to pull down his or her arm like a railroad engineer pulling a whistle every time a new sound or word was learned and said out loud.

I was not sure whether to laugh or cry. The district actually paid good money for this.

If I may be candid, some of the best training I ever received during 20+ years of teaching was in a handful of workshops that actually gave specific ideas for specific situations rather than an endless stream of vague theories.

Such is the case for arranging a DASA workshop for your school or yourself. We are professionals, and we know what it is like to actually BE in a classroom... let's learn more, together.

Robin Robinson, M. Ed, MRT

Director, DASA.

Whether in the public classroom, a charter school, a college or home school environment, you may be working with an at-risk reader. Perhaps you have questions, ideas, and concerns to be shared.

We provide workshops and Saturday Seminars for :

Characteristics of Dyslexia
Classroom Accommodations
Multi-Sensory Instruction
Reading Fluency
Spelling Protocols
Vocabulary
Multi-sensory Grammar
Testing Success w/ Dyslexics
Advanced Phonics for Adolescents

Each workshop contains practical tips and activities such as:

Improving reading fluency for greater comprehension
Test-taking strategies for the at-risk reader
How to get them to NOT stare into blank space/sleep/ text/ as you play an audio along with the book.
How to make a listening center that actually works.
Using something called "backwards decoding" to break up larger words...
Old MacDonald had a spelling problem EI? IE? OH! Best Bet spelling rules
How can I do small group teaching in the BIG group that is my class?

...and more.

If your school is interested in a workshop or Saturday seminar, please contact us! We can tailor the workshop to your specific questions and needs. Our workshops are hands-on learning at its best.

IMPOSSIBLE? What group in your school could have a 100% pass rate on senior testing for ELA? Certainly not the dyslexic group, right? Yet one school in San Antonio had a 100% pass rate on ELA for their dyslexic students who were seniors... three years in a row! (That school was our founder's school. Now we are helping other schools and students with STAAR. We're experienced and we're here to help.)

HOW CAN THIS SUCCESS HAPPEN?

Individualized, multi-sensory instruction given by a teacher who understands how to assess and meet the needs of each dyslexic / at-risk learner... learning to to throw away the drill-and kill method for engaging activities which actually make a difference.

The same school mentioned above had a 504 committee that was well trained and provided for low-stress, small group testing of at-risk readers during testing. They knew how to apply the proper accommodations for success individually: notched colored transparency overlays for decoding... providing extended time...simple things that made a HUGE difference.

What about YOUR school, and your classroom? STAAR/EOC/SAT/PSAT don't have to be stumbling blocks for your dyslexic readers!

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