At Dyslexia PowerUp, I follow a clear, step-by-step intervention process that has the following components:
Step 1 — Parent Questionnaire: As a parent, you will be invited to complete a detailed Parent Questionnaire that provides in-depth and pertinent information about your child's background history, learning profile, literacy needs, and readiness for virtual instruction, as well as your goals, expectations, and perspectives. This ensures that our initial consultation is focused, informed, and directly relevant to your child's specific situation.
Step 2 — Initial Consultation: You will meet with me via Zoom for a complimentary initial consultation. We will discuss your child's background history, learning needs, and your goals. I will ask follow-up questions, recommend an approach and session frequency, explain the full scope of support I provide during the intervention, address any queries you may have, and outline the next steps. This is an opportunity for you to share about your child, clarify your expectations, and raise any questions and concerns. Together, we will determine the most suitable intervention for your child and whether we are the right fit to work together. Should you decide to move forward, you will receive the Parent Handbook, along with the onboarding information and documents.
Step 3 — Initial Assessment: The informal literacy assessment is the most important step in the process. It identifies your child's current functioning levels across key literacy areas, including phonological awareness, phonics, word reading, oral reading fluency, comprehension, spelling, morphology, handwriting, and writing. The assessments used and the time required will vary based on your child's profile, the intervention approach, the information provided in the Parent Questionnaire, and the conversation during the initial consultation. The results provide the baseline data needed to identify your child's specific learning needs, determine the target areas for intervention, guide the creation of an individualized literacy success plan, and track progress over time. They may also be used to confirm the frequency and duration of sessions that your child will require. Assessment is charged at USD 100 per session.
Step 4 — Post-Assessment Consultation: Following the assessment, a follow-up consultation will be scheduled to discuss the literacy assessment results and recommended next steps, and to help you gain a deeper understanding of your child's needs.
Step 5 — Program Planning: Based on your child's unique profile of strengths and needs, specific skills and concepts are identified and prioritized. Intervention is delivered in 12-week cycles, each building on the previous one.
Step 6 — Literacy Intervention: For Orton-Gillingham, lessons follow a structured and systematic format covering phonemic awareness, handwriting, review of previously taught concepts, visual, auditory, and blending drills, introduction of new concepts, spelling, sight words, reading, and writing. For EBLI, instruction is delivered through an integrated approach ensuring skills such as handwriting, phonemic awareness, blending, segmenting, spelling, vocabulary, high-frequency words, reading, comprehension, and writing are reinforced in meaningful, connected ways. The content of each lesson varies and is tailored to your child’s specific learning needs. Intervention is charged at USD 100 per session.
Step 7 — Progress Monitoring, Assessment, and Review: Progress monitoring is ongoing and provides frequent opportunities to adjust and refine instruction based on your child's response to intervention. Due to the diagnostic and prescriptive nature of the intervention, immediate error correction is provided alongside extensive review, practice, and application. At the end of each 12-week cycle, an informal literacy reassessment is conducted to track progress. This is followed by a progress review consultation to discuss results, next steps, and recommendations, which completes the intervention cycle. This leads back into program planning and implementation for the next cycle.
