Take Flight Program: Empowering Students with Dyslexia

Understanding Dyslexia and the Take Flight Program

• 🎯 The Take Flight program, developed by the Luke Waites Center at Scottish Rite for Children, offers a comprehensive curriculum for students with dyslexia.
• 💡 It addresses difficulties with letters, sounds, and combining them to understand written words, aiming to improve reading comprehension.

Program Implementation and Impact

• 🔬 The program is written, implemented, and piloted in lab classes, with continuous learning from students and teachers.
• ✅ Teachers from districts like Fort Worth ISD are implementing the program, providing new literacy strategies.
• 🌟 For students, success in the program is described as life-changing, overcoming the feeling of being unintelligent.

Student Success and Personal Growth

• 🚀 Kelsey Harding, a student in the program, shares her transformation from needing constant help to completing schoolwork independently.
• 💪 She expresses pride in her progress, stating she would never have been able to reach this far and is not giving up.
• 💬 A common outcome highlighted is students realizing, "I thought I was stupid, and now I know I'm not stupid."