Annapolis County Remedial Services
Valley Read
57 Webster Street, Suite 201
Kentville, NS B4N 1H6
Phone: (902) 678-0654
Fax: (902) 679-1069
Email:valleyread@eastlink.ca
Website: http://www.valleyread.com
Area Covered: Annapolis Valley Region
Ages Served: School aged (primary – grade 12)
Fees: $45/hour
Referral Procedure: Call directly
Services Offered:
- Overview: Spell Read P.A.T. (Phonological Auditory Training) is an explicit, intensive and comprehensive reading intervention with evidence demonstrating powerful results, even with severely reading disabled students. The program integrated the essential elements of reading instruction: phonemic awareness (sound processing), phonics (sound-letter relationships) and language-based reading and writing (the use of language when reading and writing).
- Many students who enroll in Spell Read P.A.T. have been diagnosed with other learning disabilities in addition to their reading problems. The vast majority of students take 5 to 9 months to complete the intervention and include those aged 5 through adult.
- Program Description: Each Spell Read Phonological Auditory Training class weaves together essential elements of reading instruction into a mastery program that ensures student success from the first lesson. The program's 140 sequential lessons are divided into three phases, with Phase A beginning with the sounds that are easiest to hear and manipulate. All lessons are clearly defined in the instructor manuals and are taught in an integrated and explicit manner.
- The program is based on specific skill mastery, particularly in the processing of speech sounds. As a consequence, the students develop a "sound processing reflex" - meaning they are trained to automatically and effortlessly recognize and process the 44 sounds of the English language. Each class also includes language-rich reading and writing to ensure that the students also learn to use this sound processing reflex in combination with their language when reading and writing.
- Please visit the Florida Center for Reading Research website www.fcrr.org/FCRRreports/lagging.htm for an in-depth review of the Spell Read method.
Annapolis County Learning Disabilities Resources
Disclaimer
LDANS does not support, endorse or recommend any method, treatment, product, remedial centre, program or person for children or adults with a learning disability. It does, however, endeavor to inform in the belief that you have the right to know.