(Literacy Screening and Treatment)

Bailey Holzhausen is a licensed speech-language pathologist who has a special interest in working with all ages of individuals who have pre-literacy and reading, writing, and spelling difficulties. She has been working with dyslexics and individuals who have learning difficulties since graduating from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC). Bailey is a trainee affiliate with the Academic Language Therapy Association (ALTA) completing training to become a Certified Academic Language Therapist (CALT) at Payne Education Center in Oklahoma City, OK and is expected to be certified in the spring of 2023. She is receiving advanced training in Take Flight, a tier III comprehensive intervention for students with dyslexia/reading difficulties, created by the staff of the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders at Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. As Bailey is on her way to becoming a CALT, she is gaining expert experience and knowledge about dyslexia and related learning differences. She is learning how to teach written language skills including reading, writing, and spelling. Additionally, she is acquiring assessment skills to screen for dyslexia and related difficulties. Screening will assist in creating an academic language care plan along with referring for additional testing, if needed. Important focus areas to ultimately read smoothly and gain meaning and enjoyment from text include: executive functioning skills, working memory, reader’s confidence, receptive and expressive language abilities (phonology, semantics, pragmatics, morphology syntax), phonological skills, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, word origins, and reading comprehension. Bailey believes if an individual is given the right tools and instruction every person is capable of reading, spelling, and writing. She hopes to foster a love for literacy, while instilling confidence and self-advocacy, by creating an individualized care plan so your child will use his/her strengths to succeed. She hopes Pediatric Communication Solutions (PCS) will be a safe place for readers and writers to be their genuine selves and feel at ease and comfortable to make learning mistakes while engaging with new material. Sessions will follow a routine in which individuals will expect what will come next which will lead to greater success and less frustration. In addition, teaching will be multisensory and engaging as learners discover how English is more predictable and less confusing than originally thought. She hopes you and your child feel seen and cared for through this entire process. We look forward to meeting you and your child at PCS!

Reading and Writing Milestones

https://www.asha.org/siteassets/uploadedfiles/getting-your-child-ready-reading-and-writing.pdf

Certified Academic Language Therapist (CALT)

https://altaread.org/about/what-is-calt/

Take Flight

https://scottishriteforchildren.org/news-items/take-flight-a-comprehensive-intervention-for-stude

Dyslexia

https://scottishriteforchildren.org/news-items/understanding-the-basics-of-dyslexia

https://scottishriteforchildren.org/care-and-treatment/dyslexia

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dyslexia/symptoms-causes/syc-20353552#:~:text=Dyslexia%20is%20a%20learning%20disorder,the%20brain%20that%20process%20language.

https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/dyslexia

https://dyslexiaida.org/

Dyslexia Self-Assessment

https://dyslexiaida.org/dyslexia-test/

Additional Resources/Home Practice

https://www.asha.org/public/speech/emergent-literacy/

https://www.themeasuredmom.com/

https://www.readworks.org/

https://fcrr.org/

https://www.wvced.com/

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