Bravo! Tutoring – Helping Kids with Dyslexia Thrive
Dyslexia is a common learning difference where the brain processes language differently than in other learners. However, even though one in five children suffer from this condition, finding the right dyslexia treatment is often difficult.
If your child has dyslexia, you probably spend a lot of time worrying. That’s completely normal!
Dyslexia is difficult to understand and all too often, educators treat it ineffectively by offering more academics to an already exhausted learner.
But here’s the good news.
With the right dyslexia treatment plan…help is available!
Bravo! Tutoring understands dyslexia.
Because of this, or program uses movement-based instruction, brain integration exercises, Orton-Gillingham methodologies, structured phonemic awareness training, and targeted visual and autitory activities.
When this combination is used, children with dyslexia become confident, capable readers and learners.
Dyslexia…a Misunderstood Condition
Although twenty percent of the population has dyslexia, this learning disability is commonly misunderstood.
For starters, dyslexia does not involve a lack of intelligence or effort.
As a matter of fact, children with dyslexia have normal or above average IQ’s.
But his intelligence can make it harder for the child instead of easier.
Since the dyslexic child is bright, awareness exists about school and learning struggles.
This means the child with dyslexia knows academic performance is lacking. You can’t hide bad grades or poor test scores from this child, either.
To make matters worse, expectations from parents, teachers, and family members put intense pressure on the dyslexic learner. It is all too obvious that the child with dyslexia is bright as well as verbal.
All too often, children with dyslexia are told to work harder, when in fact, they are already working at capacity.
Telling a child with dyslexia to try harder simply won’t work!
Nagging and pushing only serve to put the dyslexic child on edge and contribute to the academic failure chain that already exists.
So…What Exactly Is Dyslexia?
Dyslexia is a specific learning difference that affects how the brain connects sounds, symbols, and meaning.
Because dyslexia changes the way children process written language, it shows up as slow, inaccurate, or effortful reading and spelling.
There is great news, though!
Dyslexia responds well to structured, multisensory instruction that engages the whole brain and body.
In addition, movement must be part of this equation.
Kids with dyslexia also need brain integration exercises, memory building exercises, and sensory training activities to help them become whole learners who succeed academically.
When your child receives proper dyslexia treatment, learning isn’t a chore. Reading, spelling, and writing are subjects that are mastered without a sweat!
How Movement Exercises Help Dyslexia
Kids with dyslexia are usually tactile learners. This means they learn by doing – not by seeing or hearing.
Most classrooms spend the bulk of teaching time spent in a lecture format.
This is where kids sit and listen while the teacher talks.
If your child is dyslexic and learns by doing, this teaching and learning model can be pure torture.
At times, teachers and schools will supplement this auditory learning model by including visuals such as the white board, a projector, or classroom handouts.
But this isn’t enough to make much of a difference for an already burdened learner!
If a child with dyslexia is forced to learn by hearing or seeing instead of doing, it can be difficult to learn. Kids with learning challenges learn best by doing things – and that usually includes some form of movement!
When movement is added, your dyslexic learner will connect dots because this is the natural learning channel. In addition, it is more fun so your child will stay on task longer.
Make sure your child’s dyslexia treatment program includes movement for optimal improvement!
Reading Must be an Automatic Process
Dyslexia is fundamentally about how the brain integrates information.
Movement and coordinated sensory experiences help build the neural pathways that support attention, working memory, cross-modal (sound-to-symbol) mapping, and automaticity.
Automaticity simply means that a skill can be done automatically.
Examples of automatic skills we do are typing, driving, and riding a bike.
At first, it is difficult to coordinate all the micro-skills into the one bigger skill.
But after enough of the right kind of practice, the big skill becomes easy and we don’t have to think about doing it.
Reading works the same way!
Movement in reading does three powerful things:
- It activates bilateral coordination and rhythm, which support language sequencing.
- It increases attention, arousal regulation, and the brain’s readiness to learn.
- It develops motor planning and body awareness—skills linked to timing and language processing.
When your child’s dyslexia treatment involves movement, reading becomes an automatic process!
The Right Dyslexia Treatment Makes Learning Easy!
The Bravo! Learning System incorporates brain integration as one of its most integral components. To learn best, a student should have a balance between the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
Messages cross the corpus callosum with ease and the child learns and applies what was learned. Grades are consistent with learning, and everyone is happy.
When a child struggles to get these neural pathways in the right place, then learing is more difficult.
Through eye placement, cross lateral exercises, and specific academic skill targeting (brain intergration exercises) it’s easy to repattern the brain for optimal learning.
Kids with dyslexia are, in essence, wired incorrectly, but that doesn’t mean it’s an academic death sentence.
Here’s the most exciting news for a child with dyslexia: With proper dyslexia treatment that involves brain intergration activities, new nerual pathways can be built.
When this happens, learning takes place with ease.
Phonemic Awareness: the Cornerstone of Reading
Phonemic awareness – hearing, identifying, and manipulating the individual sounds in words – is the single strongest predictor of reading success.
Unfortunately, kids with dyslexia are usually weak in phonemic awarenss skills, which makes reading a difficult task to master.
Phonemic awareness is basically the ability to sound out words.
Phonemes are the smallest units of sound in the English language. Examples of phonemes are small words like “cat”, “lip”, “hem”, “mom”, and “cup”.
Phonemic Awareness and Dyslexia Treatment
Kids with dyslexia struggle to sound out and recognize these small units of sound when taught with traditional methods.
When kids with dyslexia are provided phonemic awareness instruction using the Orton-Gillingham method coupled with movement and cross lateral movements, then learning happens with light speed!
Dyslexic children typically struggle with phonemic awareness because their brains don’t work in traditional “phonics” ways.
These kids start to sound out words and start off strong. Due to weakened visual and auditory processing abilities, they make mistakes after the strong start.
After that, they often panic or fatigue. They end up making mistakes or guessing at words.
All too soon, bad reading habits set in. These bad habits are usually in the form of guessing at words, trial and error reading, and memorization of words.
These are not strategies for sounding out words. Instead, they are panic responses!
For children with dyslexia, phonemic work must be:
- Explicit and systematic – taught step by step
- Multisensory – paired with movement, visuals, and tactile supports
- Repeated with fast, focused practice to build automaticity
Kids with dyslexia will not learn to decode words with traditional phonemic awareness instruction. They need movement, color, cross-lateral motions, and predictability in order to intrinsically learn to sound out words correctly.
Make sure your child gains strong phonemic awareness abilities by choosing the right dyslexia treatment program!
The Bravo! Reading Program Makes Reading Easy!
Kids who come to Bravo! Tutoring learn to read with the Bravo! Reading Program, where instruction is catered to the dyslexic learner.
For example, most kids don’t receive enough instruction and practice on how to sound out two letter words. Dyslexic learners especially need more time to do this, but are usually bumped up to three letter words too soon, and confusion sets in.
They need more time and physical activities with two-letter words before they move to three-letter words. The Bravo! Reading Program had kids use dot dabbers or bingo markers to read. This not only makes it fun, but it solves that whole movement issue.
With this phonemic awarenss combination, kids with dyslexia learn to read and succeed academically quickly and easily.
Visual, Auditory, and Sensory Activities: Bridging Senses to Symbols
Because dyslexia often involves weaker auditory processing and less automatic visual-letter mapping, interventions are important for helping the child make progress.
At Bravo! Tutoring, we help your child to simultaneously strengthen:
- Auditory skills: sound discrimination, phoneme blending and segmentation, auditory memory
- Visual skills: letter recognition, tracking, visual memory for words, and form/shape discrimination
- Cross-modal integration: matching sounds to letters, mouth shapes to phonemes, and gestures to graphemes
How Bravo! Tutoring Structures Lessons for Lasting Learning Success
- We keep provide full sixty minute sessions with focused activities – visual, auditory, brain integration, and academics
- Our reading instruction follows a logical sequence: phonemic awareness → phonics (sound-letter mapping) → decoding → fluency → comprehension.
- We make practice active and joyful—movement and focused activities increase motivation and learning
- The use of cumulative review helps retain knowledge – we have your child regularly revisit mastered skills while adding new ones
- We provide immediate corrective feedback and lots of positive reinforcement
When to Seek Professional Evaluation
If a child consistently struggles with decoding, spelling, rapid naming, or other reading tasks despite classroom support, it might be time to seek a formal evaluation.
Early identification helps you put your child on a track for success instead of failure.
The Bravo! Learning Evaluation is only $79.00. When your child is evaluated through our quick process, you will discover:
- How your child learns best
- Indications of dyslexia and dysgraphia
- Visual and auditory memory abilities
- Visual and auditory discrimination levels
- Phonemic awareness strengths and weaknesses
- Grade level reading
- Auditory processing abilities
- Visual motor integration capabilities
- Eye tracking skills
Dyslexia is a different way of learning, not a limit on learning. With structured phonemic instruction, purposeful movement and brain-integration activities, and targeted visual and auditory work, children with dyslexia can build strong reading skills and regain joy and confidence in learning.
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