Services: Reading

Language-Based Learning Disabilities

Language-based learning disabilities are problems with age-appropriate reading, spelling, and/or writing. A Speech-Language Pathologist will evaluate spoken (speaking and listening) and written (reading and writing) language for children who have been identified by their teachers and parents as having difficulty.

Our goals of speech and language treatment for reading problems targets the specific areas of reading and writing where the child is having difficulty. Our treatment sessions always relate to the child’s schoolwork, meaning that materials for treatment are taken directly from the child’s classroom textbooks, homework, etc. We also use a combination of multisensory, evidence based programs to target areas of need including The Language! Curriculum and The Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program (LiPS).

The following is a list of difficulties that may be reason for a referral:

• Expressing ideas clearly (i.e. using unspecific vocabulary)
• Learning new vocabulary
• Understanding directions and questions
• Recalling numbers in sequence
• Understanding and retaining details of a story plot
• Reading and comprehending material
• Learning the alphabet
• Spelling
• Identifying sounds that correspond to letters