Welcome to Alpha Phonics!
Instructor : Aimee Rodenroth, Certified Academic Language Therapist
Conference Times : Monday-Friday 10:50-12:00
Contact : (972)
429-3440, Ext. 7195
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What is Alpha Phonics?
Alpha Phonics a specialized program for those school-aged students struggling with dyslexia. It is based on the research from Scottish Rite Hospital. We work primarily on the areas of reading, spelling and handwriting.
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What is dyslexia?
According to the Texas Education Agency, dyslexia is:
" a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling abilities. These difficulties result from a deficit in the phonological component of language that is often unexpected in relation to other cognitive abilities."
Once a qualified child has been tested and admitted into the program, there are specific skills that are worked with. Primarily, these skills are:
-alphabet
-phonemic awareness
-graphophomemic knowledge
-fluency
-comprehension
-spelling
These skills are taught by a qualified instructor in an explicit, systematic, sequential and cumulative manner. Instruction follows a logical sequence that fits the nature of the alphabetic principal.
For additional information regarding dyslexia, please visit the following websites:
www.altaread.org (Academic Language Therapist Association)
www.interdys.org (International Dyslexia Association)
www.tsrh.org (Texas Scottish Rite Hospital)
www.tsra.us (Texas State Reading Association)
www.reading.org (International Reading Association)
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Homework Requirements:
Students enrolled in the Alpha Phonics program, will have homework assigned daily (Sunday-Saturday). All students are required to read a minimum of twenty minutes a day. In addition, other assignments such as handwriting, RAP sheets and instant words may be assigned as well. Folders are checked daily.
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About the instructor:
I am a native Texan (born in Dallas). I received my bachelor's from University of North Texas in 1991. I have been teaching for seventeen years, fourteen of which I have spent educating the dyslexic student. I am trained in MTA, Situation Learning, The Herman Method and TSRH Take Flight programs. I received my therapist certification from LEAD in Argyle, Texas in 2005. I have been married to Greg for ten years. I have three wonderful children (Brandon, Tyson and Sydney), three hyper dogs (Sadie, Wilson and Chloe) and three turtles (Donatello, Raphael and Leonardo). Eight of us of us live in McKinney. The turtles reside in my classroom.