What Is Dyslexia Teletherapy and How Can It Help?

For many families, finding a qualified dyslexia therapist or a private dyslexia school within driving distance is not just challenging, it’s sometimes impossible. Teletherapy is playing an increasingly important role in bridging scheduling constraints and geographical gaps and improving access. With modern advancements, technology has made it easier than ever to connect qualified dyslexia specialists with children who need support—no matter where they live.

Is online dyslexia therapy effective?

Research suggests that teletherapy can be as effective as facility-based therapy for dyslexia, and in some cases, it may even offer advantages. Engagement and motivation are central elements for successful dyslexia therapy and, here, teletherapy has significant advantages. As any parent knows, the screen can be a powerful attention magnet. For example, in teletherapy, the screen can be used to:

• Encourage and support decoding by drawing attention to how letters relate to speech sounds
• Connect speech sounds and word parts to spelling patterns
• Direct the eye and the attention to specific words and word elements
• Illustrate the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences using engaging pictures
• Provide students with an immediate, active, and multisensory way to engage with written words using on-screen annotation
• Provide immediate feedback, reinforcement, and targeted error correction 
• Establish a supportive, therapeutic, personal relationship

You may be wondering what dyslexia teletherapy looks like. Lexercise Clinician, Tori Whaley, describes in this article how she does an online, structured literacy therapy session.

Lexercise is a blended learning system that supports structured literacy (Orton-Gillingham) intervention. “Blended learning” combines traditional, face-to-face teaching and learning methods with computer-mediated methods. Lexercise empowers blended learning by coordinating face-to-face teletherapy sessions and daily exercise games for intensive practice.

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Who offers Lexercise teletherapy?

As the demand for our teletherapy services has grown we decided to provide a way that qualified specialists can use the Lexercise teletherapy platform with their own clients. Lexercise Teletherapy Partners are clinical educators or speech-language pathologists who are experts in structured literacy (a.k.a. Orton-Gillingham) therapy. They use the Lexercise teletherapy platform so they can provide science-backed intervention for clients wherever they live. If you are looking for therapy for a struggling reader and/or writer, one of these professionals would be a good choice. To read more about our qualified Teletherapy Partners, click here.

If your child struggles with reading, writing, or spelling it is important to take action as soon as possible. Early intervention is more effective and far less expensive. No matter where you live, your child can be tested and treated individually, face-to-face, online, by a qualified educational therapist at Lexercise. Learn more by contacting us at Info@Lexercise.com or 1-919-747-4557.