The Expanding Expression Tool takes a multisensory approach to teaching literacy. This program helps students build oral and written expression, defining and describing, and categorizing skills. It also helps students with vocabulary comprehension, making associations and stating functions of objects. By using the Expanding Expression Tool with students with dyslexia, teachers and other adults can help them develop the language skills they need to make general descriptions, summarize and write or tell stories from prior knowledge.
The Lindamood Bell Learning Processes organization has created research-based instructional programs designed to help students of all ages improve language processing skills. Process-based instruction in areas such as phonemic awareness, spelling, word recognition and paragraph reading is offered at Lindamood Bell Learning Centers throughout the country as well as in schools that are participating in the School Partnership program. Lindamood Bell programs can also be implemented by teachers and other adults who have attended an instructional workshop on how to use the materials efficiently. Specific programs that are appropriate for students with dyslexia include Seeing Stars, which focuses on phonemic awareness, sight words and spelling, and Talkies, which addresses visualizing and verbalizing for oral language comprehension and expression.
This reading program is appropriate for students in second grade or higher. Based on Orton-Gillingham principles, which take a multisensory, structured and systematic approach to language instruction, the Wilson Reading System focuses on teaching the structure of language to struggling readers. Students learn about areas of reading such as decoding, encoding, fluency and comprehension through a 10-part lesson plan. The Wilson Reading System is a beneficial program for students with dyslexia because it can follow users from grade to grade.
The Barton Reading & Spelling System was designed to improve the reading, spelling and writing skills of students with dyslexia and other learning disabilities. Also based on Orton-Gillingham principles, this programs addresses areas such as phonemic awareness, syllable division, vowel teams, prefixes and suffixes. The program has 10 levels, with each level focusing on a different skill. Each level also included a test that can be given before and after instruction to help track student progress.