Our Mission:
Empower.
With Responsive Readers dyslexia therapy, we give you or your child the skills to achieve your academic and life goals.
Our Services
Responsive Readers provides both Online and In-Person Dyslexia Therapy for children 7 years old through adults of any age.
Our therapy utilizes the Take Flight: A Comprehensive Intervention for Students with Dyslexia (Take Flight) method developed by Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. Read More ...
About Me
My name is Magda Jiménez-Porter and I am a native Spanish speaker from Colombia. I have a B.S. in Marine Biology and a Masters of Education in Special Education with a concentration in Dyslexia. I am a Certified Academic Language Therapist (CALT) and a licensed Dyslexia Therapist in the state of Texas (TDLR License Number 2796). I am also certified to teach Early Childhood through 6th Grade in the State of Texas.
Throughout my teaching career I came across many students who were very bright but didn’t feel that way because they struggled with reading, writing, and/or math was not one of their strengths. This is the main reason I decided that the next chapter in my educational career was to become a dyslexia therapist. Read More …
About Our Program
Take Flight is a comprehensive, ungraded, structured, and sequential curriculum that utilizes multisensory techniques for basic instruction in reading, writing, and spelling.
Take Flight is designed specifically for individuals who have language-based learning differences (dyslexia). However, Take Flight has also proven successful for children needing basic instruction and/or as language enrichment. Take Flight is designed to enable students to achieve and maintain better word recognition, reading fluency, reading comprehension.
Take Flight addresses the five components of effective reading instruction identified by the National Reading Panel’s research and is a comprehensive Tier III intervention for students with dyslexia. These five components are:
Phonemic awareness
Phonics
Fluency
Vocabulary
Reading comprehension
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“Dyslexia is a different brain organization that needs different teaching methods.
It is never the fault of the child, but rather the responsibility of us who teach to find methods that work for that child.”
- Dr. Maryann Wolf, Education Researcher and Dyslexia Advocate / Read Full Article
About Dyslexia
The following video provides an excellent explanation of what dyslexia is.