WELCOME TO
Celebrate Dyslexia
Unleashing Children's Unlimited Potential
Our focus is to bring solutions to our community in collaboration with parents of dyslexic children, teachers, students, medical professionals and community leaders to provide evidence-based information that will help navigate the current education system to ensure children’s individual success regardless of zip code.
Celebrate Dyslexia Schools Coming Soon
Serving Grades 2-6
The Texas State Board of Education has granted charter approval to Celebrate Dyslexia Schools, San Antonio’s first school dedicated to providing transformative educational experience for learners with dyslexia.
about us
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to foster a community that celebrates, educates and empowers those with Dyslexia.
How? By creating spaces of celebration within the community. This will raise awareness and encourage advocacy. As a result, change the narrative of Dyslexia will be ignited, with the goal of positive life changing impact on the educational and medical processes for the next generation.
This is a movement that is imperative for the future generation and it should start here in San Antonio. An incubator of ideas for the country, San Antonio can be the first to change the narrative of dyslexia and remove the conventional obstacles for these promising young minds. This movement will not only impact the next generation, it may provide a corrective and healing experience for adults who were never identified and endured a painful and confusing academic journey. We hope you will join us today.
WHAT IS DYSLEXIA?
“Dyslexia is an unexpected difficulty in learning to read. Dyslexia takes away an individual’s ability to read quickly and automatically, and to retrieve spoken words easily, but does not dampen one’s creativity and ingenuity.” – Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity
One in five children who cross the school threshold everyday have Dyslexia, diagnosed or not. Dyslexia also does not discriminate by gender, class or creed. Understanding that children do not want to fail and expecting them to stay in a situation that they cannot succeed is also counterintuitive to human nature.
What do I do if I think my child has it?
Early identification and intervention is key. Much like a medical immunization, early intervention can minimize the affects of social emotional issues, as well as reading fluency, the earlier an individual receives services.
How is my child identified?
The TEA Dyslexia Handbook is free and available to everyone. It outlines the process in detail and can be found at https://tea.texas.gov/sites/default/files/2018-Dyslexia-Handbook_Approved_Accomodated_12_11_2018.pdf
If your child attends public school, request that your child be evaluated for Dyslexia. A team will be put together of individual you know your child and may consist of the classroom teacher, administrators, the Dyslexia specialist on campus and/or the reading specialist. For more information on this process, refer to Chapter 4 in the TEA Dyslexia Handbook. If you have any questions, please email Celebrate Dyslexia.
Additional Resources for information on Dyslexia:
International Dyslexia Association – What Every Parent Needs to Know handbook
https://dyslexiaida.org/ida-dyslexia-handbook/
The TEA Dyslexia Handbook
https://tea.texas.gov/sites/default/files/2018-Dyslexia-Handbook_Approved_Accomodated_12_11_2018.pdf
Dysexia Handbook 2021 Updates
Dyslexia Handbook 2021 Update: Important Changes for Families to Understand (texas.gov)
HB 3928 FAQs – Dyslexia Evaluation, Identification, and Instruction
FAQs: Dyslexia Evaluation, Identification, & Instruction House Bill (HB) 3928 (tea.texas.gov)
Decoding Dyslexia – Texas
Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity
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Celebrate Dyslexia Learning Center
Celebrate Dyslexia is thrilled to partner with the Dyslexia Resource Center in Baton Rogue to provide IMSLEC approved Certified Academic Language Therapy and Qualified Instructor training to build capacity of highly qualified and trained teachers in San Antonio. For more information on our next COHORT, fill out this form:
OUR INITIATIVES
Celebrate Dyslexia’s medical
initiative is to serve individuals and
families impacted by dyslexia
through improving screening,
diagnosis, intervention, education,
support and innovation such that
dyslexia will be celebrated as a gift.
Celebrate Dyslexia is working to remove barriers to access of information, education, and intervention for students with dyslexia and their families. Strategies include experiential Dyslexia 101 training seminars, Celebrate Dyslexia Learning Center to build the capacity of dyslexia therapists, and the launch of a Generation 28 open-enrollment charter school, Celebrate Dyslexia Schools.
A portfolio of high-profile events will bring the community together highlighting the strengths of dyslexia and celebrating those who are impacted by it.
90% of children with reading difficulties will achieve grade level in reading if they receive help in the 1st grade. 75% children whose help is delayed to age 9 or later continue to struggle throughout their school career.
– 1996 by Vellutino, Scanton, Sipay, Small, Pratt, Chen and Denckla