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Brief screenings determine whether a more comprehensive assessment is needed. It typically involves one or two short measures of your child’s skills and includes a basic written summary of findings with recommendations. 

Decades of reading research have identified the linguistic skills that underlie reading and spelling abilities, as well as those that are typically affected by dyslexia. In alignment with that research, Farrin utilizes assessment measures to create a literacy profile that identifies those who have characteristics consistent with a dyslexia diagnosis.

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Areas assessed include:

• Sight Word Acquisition

• Phonics Knowledge

• Basic Reading Skills

• Decoding Efficiency

• Spelling

• Reading Fluency

• Reading Comprehension Efficiency

• Phonological Awareness

• Rapid Automatized Naming

• Auditory Working Memory

• Orthographic Processing

• Visual–Verbal Paired-Associate Learning

• Vocabulary

• Reasoning

Every child is beautiful and unique! Treatment plans are customized to increase functional gains. Farrin provides therapy in the following areas:

• Articulation Disorders

• Phonological Disorders

• Literacy (reading and spelling)

• Language Disorders

Farrin utilizes a variety of comprehensive, evidence-based assessments to determine your child's current speech and language abilities across one or more areas (e.g., literacy, expressive/receptive language, articulation). Standardized and non-standardized assessment measures are used to identify areas of concern and to guide a detailed treatment plan. 

Children with dyslexia or suspected dyslexia need specific and direct instruction in reading and spelling. Farrin uses multi-sensory structured language education (using sight, sound, movement, and touch) to help children connect language to words.  As dyslexia is a language based challenge, instruction begins with auditory and phonological processing. From there Farrin teaches synthetic and analytic phonics, vocabulary development, and orthographic mapping for sight words. Therapy is highly structured, explicit, and filled with repetition. The result? Students with proficiencies that translate across domains!

Farrin has an extensive tool kit of teaching techniques from her 20 years working with dyslexic children. These include the Lindamood-Bell Phoneme Sequencing and Seeing Stars programs, the Barton Reading & Spelling System, Foundations in Sounds, Lively Letters, Bjorem speech cards, and the See and Say method for sight word acquisition. 

Family members are an integral and required part of therapy. Parents are encouraged to attend sessions when possible and are updated frequently on progress and ways to support their child at home.