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At Connelly Dyslexia and Learning Center, we are dedicated to empowering students with learning differences. We provide tailored support to help them build essential skills, boost their confidence, and achieve academic success. Our compassionate approach ensures that every student feels valued and capable of overcoming challenges. Together, we can pave the way for a brighter future.
Dyslexia Instruction
Our goal is to help students understand how language works, develop effective reading strategies, and experience greater confidence and success as readers.
Our dyslexia instruction provides explicit, systematic, and structured literacy support for students with dyslexia and related reading difficulties. Instruction is designed to strengthen the foundational skills students need to become more accurate, fluent, and confident readers.
Reading Instruction
Individualized and small-group reading instruction designed to strengthen foundational literacy skills and help students become more confident, successful readers.
Instruction may target:
*Phonological and phonemic awareness
*Decoding and word recognition
*Reading fluency and accuracy
*Vocabulary development
*Reading Comprehension
*Spelling and written language connections
Math Instruction
Individualized and small-group math instruction designed for students who need additional support developing foundational math skills, and problem-solving strategies, and confidence.
Instruction may target:
*Number sense
*Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
*Math fact fluency
*Mathematical reasoning
*Word Problem Reasoning
*Strategies for approaching multistep problems
*Closing gaps in foundational skills
Executive Functioning Coaching
Executive functioning encompasses a broad range of skills that help students plan, organize, manage their time, begin and complete tasks, regulate attention, remember important information, and work toward goals. Because these skills develop over time and look different from kindergarten through high school, there is no one-size-fits-all approach.
At Connelly Dyslexia and Learning Center, Executive Functioning Skills Coaching is individualized to each student's age, developmental level, strengths, and specific areas of need. Rather than using a single program for every student, our coaches select strategies and supports that are appropriate for the individual learner.
Our approach incorporates evidence-informed strategies and practices from the work of Peg Dawson and Richard Guare, as well as strategies from the Homework, Organization, and Planning Skills (HOPS) Program.
Depending on the student's needs, coaching may address:
• Planning and prioritizing assignments and responsibilities
• Time management and estimating how long tasks will take
• Task initiation and reducing procrastination
• Breaking large assignments and projects into manageable steps
• Working memory strategies
• Attention and sustained effort
• Goal setting and progress monitoring
• Homework and assignment management
• Self-monitoring and developing greater independence
Our goal is not simply to help students get through today's assignments, but to explicitly teach strategies they can learn to use independently at school, at home, and in everyday life.
Social Skills
Our small group social skills instruction provides a supportive, structured environment where students with autism and other social-learning differences can learn, practice, and strengthen skills for navigating everyday social situations.
Through explicit instruction, modeling, guided practice, role playing, games, and group activities, students have opportunities to develop such skills as:
*Starting, joining and maintaining conversations
*Understanding social cues ad different perspectives
*Taking turns and participating in group activities
*Building and maintaining friendships
*Expressing needs and advocating for themselves
*Developing confidence in social situations