Read America Clinic
What to Expect in the Way of Phono-Graphix Testing
Your therapist will invite you to sit in on your child's testing. We highly recommend that you do so. Four Phono-Graphix tests will be administered. Our segmenting test measures your child's ability to separate sounds in words. Our blending test measures your child's ability to blend sounds into words. Our phoneme manipulation test measures your child's ability to move sounds into and out of words. Our code knowledge test measures your child's explicit knowledge of the code. In addition to this your therapist will administer a standardized reading test of real and nonsense words.
What to Expect in the Way of Phono-Graphix Therapy and Parent Support
You'll receive a parent support book ($34.95). This will give you all the materials you need to support your child's Phono-Graphix therapy at home in between sessions with the therapist, and leave you with lots of extra worksheets for continued practice after therapy is completed. You will also be asked to sit in on some sessions so you understand the process of Phono-Graphix remediation.
What to Expect in the Way of Remediation Time and Reading Gains
Remediation time and reading gains vary greatly from child to child. At the Read America clinic, our average time of remediation is twelve hours. The shortest time in which we've remediated a client was six hours and our longest time to remediate a client was 36 hours. Our average gains are just over two years in real word reading and four years in nonsense word reading (decoding). Needless to say we do not guarantee gains, but rather we simply report these averages. We also want you to be aware of the results obtained in a clinical study of Phono-Graphix published in the Orton Annals of Dyslexia in 1996. This study included 87 children age six to sixteen, 44% of whom were previously diagnosed as learning disabled. In a twelve hour remedial course, 98% of the children reached grade level reading. The remaining 2% needed additional time in therapy.
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