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Dyslexia Support Group

Dyslexia Support Group

Integrating Oculomotor Skills,
Primitive Reflex Integration, and
Phonological Awareness

Target Population
Children ages 6+ with diagnosed or suspected dyslexia

Frequency
2 sessions per week  

Group Size
Up to 8 children 

Location
Hurst  

Facilitators
A licensed OT and one trained assistant will run the session, focusing on reflexes and vision, phonological awareness, handwriting, and reading fluency. 

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Program Overview

This will structured therapy group is designed to support children with dyslexia through a multisensory, neurodevelopmental approach. The program integrates: 

Oculomotor Skill Development

Primitive Reflex Integration Activities

Phonological Awareness Intervention

Program Goals

Participants will work on building the following skills:

  • Improve oculomotor control for reading (visual tracking, saccades, convergence)
  • Work towards integrating retained primitive reflexes to support attention, postural control, and overall coordination 
  • Increase phonological awareness skills (rhyming, segmenting, blending, phoneme manipulation)
  • Improve reading fluency and visual attention
  • Build confidence and self-efficacy related to reading

Sample Session Structure

Take a sample peek at our 2 hour session structure to see how much your child will learn and grow in our classroom! We start with technical warm ups and exercises, helping us see your child’s unique situation and then build from there, eventually putting everything into application. We even help create a home strategy for further work outside of the class.

1. Vestibular and Movement Based Input

(5 minutes)

  • Primes the body to get ready to learn
  • Supports regulation and attention for table top activities
  • Supports body awareness and alertness needed for appropriate postural control.

2. Phonological Awareness Warm-Up

(5 minutes)

  • Review of previous concepts
  • Phoneme segmentaion and blending

 

3. Primitive Reflex Integration

(20 minutes – broken up into 2 segments)

  • Primitive Reflex Integration Exercises (ATNR, STNR, TLR, Spinal Galant, Moro)
  • Core activation and postural stability work
  • Bilateral coordination drills
  • Preparatory vestibular input to facilitate activation of visual systems prior to oculomotor activities

Purpose: Retained primitive reflexes significantly impact attention, visual motor skills, ocular motility, and body control.  Implementaion of these exercises, in addition to core and bilateral integration work, will prepare the body and nervous system for learning.  The vestibular system, our system that registers movement, will also be targeted to capitalize on its close link to the visual system.  

4. Phonological Awareness Block

(20 minutes)

  • Gross motor phoneme games
  • Rhythm and auditory-motor integration activities
  • Explicit phoneme segmentation and blending
  • Phoneme manipulation (addition, deletion, substitution)
  • Multisensory spelling strategies
  • Structured literacy practice using visual, auditory, and kinesthetic input
  • Small group skill-level differentiation as needed

Purpose: Directly target the core deficit area in dyslexia with systematic, explicit instruction.

5. Ocular Motility and Parent Education

(10 minutes)

  • Horizontal, vertical, and diagonal tracking exercises.
  • Visual saccades
  • Convergence and divergence activities
  • Visual scanning and visual attention tasks

Purpose: While dyslexia is not inherently a visual disorder, research shows that most individuals diagnosed with dyslexia also demonstrate deficits in ocular motility which influences their fluency and ease with reading.  Targeting these skills can improve visual efficiency, reduce fatigue, and support reading fluency and comprehension.  

Assessment & Outcome Measurement

  • Oculomotor screening
  • Reflex screening
  • Phonological awareness screener
  • Parent-reported functional improvements
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