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"Our son Adam is bright, dyslexic, and dysgraphic. We've had a couple lucky breaks in helping him with his learning differences. One of them was his attendance at the ASDEC summer program after his 1st grade year. ASDEC is special in that your child will work one-on-one with a certified language therapist. Your child will receive instruction that is tailored for him; her progress is based on her understanding of material, not the group's mastery of material. Following the summer program, ASDEC will match your child to a language therapist whose schedule and location matches yours, so your child can continue to work to become a fluent reader. Adam has worked with his therapist for the past two school years, both in-person and on-line. He'll continue to work with her this summer and next school year. He's made tremendous progress. He is in 3rd grade now and reads above grade-level, though slowly and tires quickly for a child his age. His therapist believes that by the end of next year, he'll be a fluent reader.. The summer program at ASDEC was a worthwhile investment for our family. I hope the on-line delivery puts it in reach of more families whose schedules wouldn't accommodate the in-person program. (Parent of ASDEC summer student)
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REGISTRATION OPENS SOON FOR SUMMER 2025
ASDEC Reach for Success Summer Programs in Reading, Math, Writing and Study Skills For Students in Elementary- High School
ASDEC provides the only summer program in the DC region that is lead by Certified Academic Language Therapists teaching struggling learners. The program provides intensive instruction in reading, writing, spelling, study skills, and handwriting and math. Physical movement along with visual and auditory stimuli to provide multisensory learning. The hands-on aspect of the structured routines facilitates attention and concentration. The careful development of conceptual understanding and the high level of repetition reinforce memory. All activities build on the mastery of skills, which helps students build self-esteem as they experience success each day.
For close to two decades, ASDEC master teachers have been delivering the most powerful Orton-Gillingham teaching methods to students during our summer program. Our elementary students work with Academic Therapists one to one and in small groups while older students work in small groups with senior ASDEC faculty members. In addition, ASDEC-trained Math Specialists bring years of experience to our summer programs.
ASDEC has over 20 years of experience serving children directly during the summer programs bringing the best components of our research-based training into the classroom.. We also have years of experience teaching students online, now an essential component during this pandemic. The Summer Program is for students who currently are struggling in school and require special accommodations as specified in an IEP or some other educational testing.
ASDEC Elementary Academic Therapy Clinic – Grades 2-6:ASDEC provides the only Orton-Gillingham Based program endorsed by the International Dyslexia Association in the Washington, DC region. The program provides intensive instruction in reading, writing, spelling, and handwriting. Physical movement is added to the visual and auditory stimuli to provide multisensory learning. The hands-on aspect of the structured routines facilitates attention and concentration. The careful development of conceptual understanding and the high level of repetition reinforce memory. All activities build on the mastery of skills, which helps students build self-esteem as they experience success each day. Who should attend?
What will they learn? Students work one-to-one with an academic therapist in the following:
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Summer Math ProgramJuly 7, 2025-July 25, 2025 Grades 4-5: 8:30-9:30 Grades 6-7: from 10:00-11:30 Grades 8-9 from 12:00-1:30
| SUMMER MATH PROGRAM ONSITEHelping Students Catch Up to Keep Up with Marilyn Zecher, CALT and Dorothy Fox The ASDEC summer math program serves students with dyslexia and related learning disabilities in a group setting. While all learners benefit from our structured multisensory methods, students attending our three-week small group math program respond to the precise language of instruction paired with hands-on activities from highly trained specialists. These specialists accommodate students who have diagnosed learning challenges that include dyslexia, dyscalculia, mild ADHD, and Executive Function challenges. Students work with math manipulatives and the Concrete-Representational or Pictorial-Abstract Instructional Sequence to internalize math concepts. The program addresses unfinished learning in foundation skills, helping students to access higher level concepts which help them catch up to keep up. Though addressing math fact fluency is part of this program, fluency development must be scaffolded over time. Students will work with small sets of targeted number facts to develop larger concepts. Our goal is to better prepare students for grade level content by addressing misconceptions and clarifying concepts which benefit from a multisensory instructional approach. Students must be able to work with manipulatives independently and in small groups. Those students who require more intensive therapeutic services will not benefit from this program because they may need this approach in greater intensity over a longer period of time or in a one-on-one instructional setting. Program directors will review diagnostic testing to determine eligibility for the program and students will be required to complete an initial assessment to assure that it is a good fit for the student’s needs. Who should attend?
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Middle-High School ProgramSummer Program 2024July 8-19, 2024 9:30-11:30
| Middle-High School Program: Study Skills and Writing – Grades 7-11Middle and high school students must complete increasingly challenging writing assignments across the curriculum. Most students, however, have not mastered the grammar and language skills necessary to become effective and confident writers. ASDEC’s middle/high school specialists use state-of-the art multisensory strategies to help students improve reading, grammar, writing, and study skills in a lively small group setting. The program provides students with some of the most critical and necessary skills required for academic writing at the secondary level. Students will learn the multisensory process approach to improve sentences, paragraphs, and multi-paragraph essays. Study skills instruction is embedded within the academic writing curriculum and will focus on time management, organization, vocabulary development, text annotation, webbing, summarizing, and source citation. Students will learn techniques that significantly improve comprehension and memory. Additionally, they will use software tools that aid in mastery of content information and organization. Who should Attend?
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Location: St. Andrew the Apostle, Silver Spring, MDSummer program team
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ASDEC - Dyslexia Therapy, Training, and Parent Advocacy
3500 East West Hwy
Suite 1418-177
Hyattsville, MD 20782-1916
Phone: 301-762-2414
Email: [email protected]
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ASDEC is accredited by the International Mulitsensory Structured Language Education Council (IMSLEC), one of two organizations in the US to receive the International Dyslexia Association (IDA) endorsement for meeting teacher training standards in reading.
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