Evidence-Based Dyslexia Programs
Take Flight
Structured, multi-sensory instruction designed to help children with dyslexia become confident, capable readers.
Take Flight, developed by Scottish Rite Children's Hospital, is an evidence-based program designed to help children with dyslexia and reading challenges become confident readers.
Why Take Flight Works
What Makes Take Flight Different From Typical Reading Help
Take Flight: A Comprehensive Intervention for Students with Dyslexia was written by the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia at Scottish Rite for Children — the same team behind decades of Orton-Gillingham research. It's not a workbook or a quick fix. It's a structured, multisensory, two-year curriculum built specifically for kids who learn to read differently, with published outcome studies behind it.
Structured & Sequential
132 carefully ordered lessons build one skill on top of the last, so nothing is assumed and nothing is skipped.
Multisensory by Design
Kids see, hear, say, and write each concept, strengthening the brain's connection between sounds and letters.
Research-Backed
Take Flight has been studied in peer-reviewed research showing measurable improvement — not just anecdotes.
Progress You Can See
Regular progress monitoring means you always know what's improving and what comes next — no guessing.
Common Questions
What Parents Usually Ask First
Is Take Flight the same as regular tutoring?
No. Tutoring typically reinforces what's already being taught in the classroom. Take Flight is a clinical intervention — it teaches reading through a completely different route, built around how a dyslexic brain processes language.
Does my child need a formal dyslexia diagnosis first?
Take Flight was designed for students already identified with dyslexia, so an evaluation is typically the starting point. If your child hasn't been formally evaluated yet, that's a great first conversation to have.
Will this replace what my child gets at school?
No — Take Flight is designed to run alongside school. Most families use it to fill a specific gap: the explicit, structured phonics instruction a general classroom often can't provide at the pace a dyslexic learner needs.
Most families notice a shift in confidence before they notice a jump in reading level — and the reading gains follow close behind.
Read the Full Guide to Take Flight →It matters who's in the room.
This isn't general reading tutoring.
Take Flight is not designed to be self-taught or delivered by a general reading tutor. Its research base assumes instruction from a Certified Academic Language Therapist (CALT) — a specialist trained specifically in diagnosing and treating dyslexia, not just teaching reading.
That's the credential ClearPath Dyslexia's founder, Kathleen Ferrufino, M.Ed. CALT, holds.
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