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Horizon Academy is conducting free screenings for parents of children 4-6 years of age who are at risk for dyslexia.

October 31, 2024

Horizon Academy is conducting free screenings for parents of children 4-6 years of age who are at risk for dyslexia. The screenings are available during October and November 2024.  Step One. Fill out the form ...

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Poetry Builds Reading Fluency for Students with Dyslexia

September 20, 2024

At first glance, it may seem like dyslexia and poetry just don’t mix! But if we pull back the curtain, we reveal that poetry offers many gifts to a dyslexic reader-to-be. Poetry, shall I compare ...

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Horizon Academy Announces First-Ever Enrollment of Kindergarten-Age Students (For Children At Risk Of Dyslexia)

August 20, 2024

Horizon Academy is currently enrolling kindergarten students who are at risk for dyslexia for the 2024-2025 school year. Ours is the first early intervention program of this kind in the region. Horizon Academy is the ...

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Preparing for Back to School Using Executive Functioning Best Practices

August 1, 2024

At Horizon Academy, we want to help you and your family reduce stress and increase the likelihood of success during what is a traditionally hectic time of year known as “back to school”. Here are ...

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Ten Essential Skills That You Have Never Been Taught

July 25, 2024

“Prepare the child for the path instead of the path for the child.” – T. Elmore As a teacher and as a parent, I can think of nothing more valuable than having children feel comfortable ...

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Building Background Knowledge and Vocabulary Through Family Field Trips

June 25, 2024

The mission of Horizon Academy is to empower students diagnosed with dyslexia and other language-based learning disabilities to become effective learners and confident self-advocates. One of the ways in which we empower our students is ...

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Meg: One Alumna’s Story

May 16, 2024

Before my time at Horizon Academy, my relationship with school was anything but positive; in fact, it was quite intimidating. Reading posed a challenge for me, I vividly recall the frustration of being pulled out ...

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Burt’s Story

April 17, 2024

As I think about the path that brought us to Horizon Academy, I’d say, I noticed several little things very early on with my son, Burt. He didn’t meet the developmental benchmarks for crawling or ...

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Sensory Processing Disorder: What you need to know.

April 16, 2024

Does your child: If you answered yes to some of these questions then your child may have a sensory processing disorder (SPD).  Sensory processing is the ability of the brain to take in, organize, and ...

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Longing to Belong: DEIB at Horizon Academy

February 29, 2024

By Emily Staten When I accepted to lead the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (D.E.I.B) movement at Horizon Academy in 2022, I did so with self-doubt and uneasiness. I was incredibly conscious of my whiteness ...

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