Canyon ISD offers a range of services to students with dyslexia. Programming is always decided upon by a committee of people familiar with the student and knowledgeable about dyslexia and related disorders. The options available to the student with dyslexia are as follows:

• accommodations
• modifications
• classroom intervention
• pull-out intervention (provided by campus or district-interventionist)

District-Adopted Dyslexia Curriculum

The Dyslexia Intervention Program is a fast-paced, phonetic-based dyslexia program. There are 146 lessons in the program. The program includes alphabet activities, review of reading and spelling sounds and concepts, new concept (sound), reading practice, handwriting, listening and verbal comprehension, reading comprehension, and writing activities. Students must committ to being in intervention each day and to reading for an additional 20-30 minutes per day. The books read during this additional time need to be on the student’s reading level. This indepedent practice is crucial to overall progress.

The strategies used in the Dyslexia Intervention Program come from many sources including Scottish Rite Dyslexia programs, Project Read, the Neuhaus Center, and Lawrence Greene and Bernice Bragstad’s Study Skills.