Office of Special Programs
Freeman Heights Academic Offices
300 South 27th Street
Temple, Texas 76504
254-215-6817

The Temple ISD Dyslexia Program is designed to provide assessment of those students at risk for dyslexia, as well as appropriate reading and spelling instruction for students who meet federal, state and district criteria as dyslexic. Appropriate reading and spelling instruction is characterized by the descriptors found in The Dyslexia Handbook, revised 2007, a publication of the Texas Education Agency.

Assessment and instruction are provided by Certified Academic Language Therapists or Academic Language Therapists in training.  The reading program used is Take Flight, an Orton-Gillingham-based multi-sensory approach developed by Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital in Dallas, Texas.  Take Flight meets all the descriptors for effective instruction found in The Dyslexia Handbook.