1. HMS Dyslexia Parent Night
Presented by: G. Tappan
CALT, Ed. Diag

2. Tonight’s Agenda
Questions and Answers on individual students before and shortly after presentation
Brief overview of what is Dyslexia
Dyslexia services provided at HMS
Accommodations: What are they and why use them
Demonstration

3. Dyslexia Review

4. Heritage Middle School
Dyslexia Services

5. 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.
Phonemic Awareness - follows established procedures for explicitly teaching the relationships between speech-sound production and spelling- sound patterns 
Phonics - provides a systematic approach for single word decoding
Fluency - uses research-proven directed practice in repeated reading of words, phrases and passages to help students read texts more fluently
Vocabulary - features multiple word learning strategies (definitional, structural, contextual) and explicit teaching techniques with application in text 
Reading Comprehension - teaches students to explicitly use and articulate multiple comprehension strategies (i.e., cooperative learning, story structure, question generation and answering, summarization and comprehension monitoring)
Multisensory Reading
For students newly identified Or
Still needing to complete a Dyslexia Therapy program
Still needing to work on decoding strategies

6. Developing Metacognitive Skills
For:
Program description
Students who have completed or nearly completed a Dyslexia Therapy program
Strong decoding skills
Still needs work on comprehension and vocabulary skills
 builds the foundational skills for comprehension
 incorporates research-based strategies to help develop vocabulary
 Teaches students to think about their thinking before, while, and after they read
reinforces decoding and fluency

7.  Student is in general education classes with no daily support from Dyslexia Therapist.
504 Accommodations are in place
Therapist is available to student as needed for tutoring or accommodation assistance.
Grades, and accommodation usage will be monitored by Dyslexia Therapist.
Dyslexia Therapist will meet with student as determined by grade reports and teacher requests
MONITORING
For: Students who have completed a Dyslexia Therapy program, or have been dismissed from the program.

8. What are they?
Why use them?
Accommodations

9. Accommodations: What are they?
“Levels the playing field”
Makes learning accessible to the student
Allows the student to demonstrate what they know
Are determined based upon student need
Use of accommodations helps the student demonstrate their progress in grade level curriculum

10. Accommodations: What aren’t they?
Does not alter the content of assignments
Does not alter what the student is expected to learn.
Does not give the student an unfair advantage
Does not change what a test measures
Does not guarantee an ‘A’, or a passing grade

11. Examples Extra time to complete work
Reading questions and answer choices to student
Calculator (grades 5-7)
Spelling assistance
Reading strip
Supplemental Aides
Audio book
Alternate format

12. Accommodations
Accommodation Clip
Why use them?

13. Demonstrations Learning Ally Voice Typing Audio books
Listen to grade level materials
Keep up with peers
Listen to text books and reinforce content information
Help get thoughts on to paper
Work around the spelling issues
Keep up with peers on meeting writing timelines
Work handwriting difficulites
Google Docs Demo

14. Demonstrations Other Sources Audible-channels free to Prime Bibliotech
Nook
Kindle
Khan Academy
Youtube