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Curriculum

This is an overview of the Neuhaus Educational Center Program, called Basic Lanugage Skills, which is used to instruct dyslexia and/or reading disabled students.

Language Skills in three Books

LANGUAGE SKILLS: BOOK I

Introduces and develops the foundation for decoding and comprehension. It also introduces patterns and rules for spelling. It addresses phonemic awareness, letter recognition, the alphabetic principle, and the six syllable types; reading and spelling practices, oral language and listening comprehension; grammar and sentence writing.

Letter Recognition

Spelling Practices

Listening Comprehension

Language Skills: Book II

Is designed to automate students reading and writing skills through the introduction of additional information and through a variety of sustained practices. It addresses sound symbol correspondences and syllable division patterns; prefixes, suffixes, roots and combining forms; reading and spelling practices; rules and sentence dictation; analyzing spelling words; fluency and metacognitive strategies; grammar and paragraph writing.

Sentence Dictation

Metacognitive Strategies

Paragraph Writing

Language Skills: Book III

Is designed to promote students’ independence in reading and writing. It addresses sound symbol correspondences, word origins and morphology; reading and spelling patterns; sentence dictation and analyzing spelling words; fluency, connected text reading practice, and metacognitive strategies; grammar and written composition.

Reading Independence

Sentence Dictation

Grammar Composition

Daily Lesson Plan

The program I use is Basic Language Skills (Orton Gillingham). It is a systematic, sequential, intensive comprehensive literacy curriculum for use with students who are dyslexic or reading-disabled. It consist of a rotation of activities that develop the necessary skills for reading, spelling and writing. Each class meets four days a week for one hour each day. The following are included in the program:

Alphabet Awareness Activities

Handwriting (cursive)

Reading of sounds

Spelling Deck

Concept Introduction

Reading Practice

Spelling Practice

Oral Language

Simple/Complex Writing

Reading Aloud

Grade Levels

Public K-12

1st - 5th Grade

Middle/High School

What Does “Neuhaus-Trained” mean?

Online Tutoring

Neuhaus-trained refers to dyslexia specialists who have completed Neuhaus Education Center’s Dyslexia Specialist Preparation Program (DSPP). Each year about 25 – 30 teachers enter the three-year program to become a Neuhaus-trained dyslexia specialist. Most of these dyslexia specialists work with students in the school setting, but a few of them work with private students. This training qualifies an individual to teach the Basic Language Skills curriculum to students who need it. The program involves 200 classroom hours and 700 hours with students. It is to these experts that referrals are made for students who need to be taught literacy skills using the BLS curriculum.

About 5,000 teachers a year come to Neuhaus Education Center. The Center offers a variety of classes to classroom teachers who want to develop their skills in teaching reading, writing, and spelling. Some teachers take one 3-hour class and others complete many classes, but do not enroll in the DSPP. These teachers have training in certain Neuhaus curricula, but are not Neuhaus-trained dyslexia specialists..

The accredited Neuhaus Program was created exclusively to teach students with dyslexia

Class Hours

Teaching Hours

Families Served

What are Basic Language Skills

Tutors

Basic Language Skills is an intensive, therapeutic curriculum that is effective with students with dyslexia and other related disorders. The research-based curriculum shares similar philosophies and characteristics with other Orton-Gillingham-based curricula and provides instruction in phonemic awareness, letter recognition, decoding, spelling, fluency, comprehension, handwriting, vocabulary, and oral and written expression. It is designed to be taught by a Highly Qualified Dyslexic Specialist for 50 to 60 minutes per class..

BASIC LANGUAGE SKILLS

Is This Program Right for My Child?

After your child has been tested by a professional for learning difficulties, the evaluator will make recommendations about what remediation is needed. Basic Language Skills (BLS) would be appropriate if the recommendations included such things as: working on decoding skills; using an Orton-Gillingham-based curriculum; learning Alphabetic Phonics; using a multisensory curriculum or strategies; learning with a strong phonetic approach to reading, etc. BLS is appropriate because it integrates all the above with comprehensive instruction in decoding, handwriting, spelling, fluency, reading comprehension, composition, and vocabulary.

I have seen her small group tutorial classes and am astounded by the progress these students make over time. The confidence and gains her students make are incredible.”

Elizabeth S.

Masters in Reading, and Language Arts

I was unsure that anyone could teach my son to read. After 5 years in the school system with no results, Elizabeth taught my son to read. Matthew was on a 1st grade reading level when he came to Elizabeth in the 4th grade. After 2 years, he was reading on level.

Diane E.

Parent of former student

Elizabeth came highly recommended by the Neuhaus Education Center as she is very successful with students completing the Basic Language program. Her tutoring helped our child conquer reading on level and pass the state-required tests. Dyslexic children can be taught to learn anything. Elizabeth’s willingness to accept responsibility for these students is amazing.
Vicky F.

Parent of former student

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