Special Education
Thousands of schools nationwide have made Lexia part of their Special Education programs.
Children on IEP’s require intensive levels of instruction provided through a carefully developed and monitored educational plan. Lexia Reading programs supplement the instructional needs of these students and support professional teaching staff in their efforts to meet the unique educational challenges of special education students. Lexia’s emphasis on explicit, systematic and structured skills development is ideally suited for students with diagnosed learning disabilities. Lexia’s reporting features provide real time data on student performance and identify the specific skills that students have either mastered or need additional instruction with.
Typically developing students can often learn the basic rules of English phonology through instruction and practice that is efficient and fast paced. When learning a new skill, typically developing students will often acquire mastery in as little as 7 exposures to a skill. For Special Education students the reality is quite different. Students with reading disabilities will commonly need frequent, intensive repetitive skills practice that will result in hundreds of exposures to a specific skill in order for a student to develop mastery. The provision of these extensive practice opportunities is one of Lexia’s core design strengths. Lexia programs will systematically provide repeated practice for student’s struggling to learn a skill in a structured and engaging manner. The programs respond to the speed and accuracy of the student providing additional practice that is directly determined by each student’s individual performance.
Lexia programs compliment the intense individualized instruction provided to Special Education students with an independent computer based experience that supports and extends instructional resources. Resource room teachers often integrate Lexia programs into their small group instructional models to provide students with a learning center activity that can be used without supervision, supplements individual learning needs and identifies students’ instructional needs.
Testimonials
“Lexia provides 4 key benefits: 1) it engages the kids, 2) it helps the teacher manage and monitor the teaching process, 3) it provides a structured curriculum that I can depend on, and 4) it helps kids to shift to effective word attack strategies early. I feel that every child needs the kind of phonological awareness taught in the activities.”