Learning Differences & Specific Needs

Because of their multisensory approach or non-traditional teaching strategies, the curricula below may be helpful for students with dyslexia or other learning differences.

Remedia Publications workbooks are ideal for students with learning differences and teach academic and life skills. Remedia workbooks feature a strong focus on basic skills and repetition, a larger type size, simple art that’s not distracting or too juvenile, simple worksheets, and a high-interest format.

Paradigm Accelerated Curriculum (PAC) offers independent learning courses in Science, English, History, and Geography for students in grades 7 - 12. PAC's focus is to provide courses that incorporate character development with academics so students are equipped to make wise choices and achieve academic success. With these goals in mind, PAC has worked as an academic solution for struggling and reluctant students. With courses available separately, PAC can also be used to fill in educational gaps.

EPS Phonics Plus is a literature-rich program that combines foundational language arts skills so that listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities connect phonic skills to build phonological awareness, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Comprehension strategies such as modeling techniques and "Think Alouds" help students understand passages. A Picture Glossary contains illustrations for reading words to support ELL students as well as vocabulary development for beginning and struggling readers in grades K - 3.

PAF (Preventing Academic Failure) for reading and spelling uses Orton-Gillingham multisensory techniques. It is designed to be used with Kindergarten and first graders with learning differences. It can also be used with older students who are struggling with reading. The building blocks of written language arts are presented in a logical, step-by-step order to help students experience more confidence and less frustration. Handwriting is also a multi-sensory curriculum that can be used for beginning students as well as students who have graphomotor weaknesses. These handwriting books integrate visual, auditory, and kinesthetic elements along with visual cues to teach proper letter and number formation. Cursive workbooks are specialized for either right-handed or left-handed writers.

The EPS Dyslexia Training Program introduces reading and writing skills to students identified as dyslexic or at risk for dyslexia through a two-year cumulative series of videotaped lessons (not included). The program emphasizes intense phonetic analysis of written language and is presented in a structured, multisensory sequence of the alphabet, reading, spelling, cursive handwriting, and listening. Let's Read series Books 4 - 6 provide supplementary reading practice.

These tests identify students who may have dyslexia or specific language disability. Forms evaluate visual-motor coordination, visual memory, visual discrimination, auditory-visual discrimination, auditory memory-to-motor ability, orientation in time and space (Form D), and ability to express ideas in writing (Form D).