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The Scottish Rite Foundation of Alabama, Inc. Learning Centers is offering to provide to each public school system in Alabama a free copy of the videotaped lessons which comprise the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital Dyslexia Training Program.  School systems wishing to receive these valuable materials should contact us to schedule needed teacher training and orientation prior to requesting these materials.  This training will be provided without charge to the school system.

The Texas Scottish Rite Hospital Dyslexia Training Program (DTP) was developed by the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas as a response to the need to provide dyslexia intervention in schools throughout Texas and around the world.  The DTP introduces reading and writing skills to students through a two-year cumulative series of videotaped lessons.  The program emphasizes intense phonetic analysis of written language and is presented in a structured, multisensory sequence of alphabet, reading, spelling, cursive handwriting, listening, language history, and review activities.  The students are instructed by an Academic Language Therapist who is the instructor on the videotapes.

Students work with the 336 hour-long lesson tapes in a class of no more than six.  A team teacher in the students' classroom works with the students, providing encouragement and monitoring each student's active participation in lesson components.  Minimal training is needed by the team teacher as the dyslexia expert teacher is "present" in the classroom via the videotaped lessons.

There are three schedules of lessons included in the DTP and various supplemental materials needed to implement this program. 

Schedule I overview
Schedule II overview
Schedule III overview
Materials needed to implement DTP

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