Summer Programs
Providing students with the critical learning skills they need during the summer months.
’Rizon Readers Kindergarten Readiness Program
Entering Kindergarten, $1,000
June 5 – June 29, 2023 | Mondays – Thursdays | 8:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Location: Horizon Academy | 4901 Reinhardt Drive, Roeland Park, Kansas
Enrollment Capacity: Maximum of 8 rising Kindergarten Students
’Rizon Readers Kindergarten Readiness Program is a pilot program at a reduced cost that aims to prepare rising Kindergarten students at risk for dyslexia for success in literacy and numeracy. Through a play-based, multisensory Orton-Gillingham (O-G) Approach, students will practice language skills including phonological awareness, emergent writing, alphabet awareness, and fundamental numeracy skills.
The program has been created by experts in Speech & Language Pathology, the Orton-Gillingham Approach (dyslexia literacy intervention), and Multisensory Math. The program will be led by an early childhood O-G certified teacher.
Upon completion of the program, parents will be offered a parent-teacher conference to discuss student growth as well as teacher recommendations and accommodations for the coming school years.
Admission Criteria
In order to be admitted into the program, students must…
- Be available for the entirety of the June program
- Be going into kindergarten in Fall 2023
- Attend a one hour in-person screening to determine placement eligibility
- Meet at least 3 of the 6 criteria indicated by parents and formal pre-testing
- Family history of dyslexia
- Limited letter/number identification
- Measurable deficits when compared to age-matched peers in phonological awareness skills including nonword repetition, word/phoneme segmentation, word/phoneme blending, digit repetition
- Measurable deficits when compared to age-matched peers in rapid automatic naming of colors, objects, letters, numbers
- Limited print awareness skills
- Observed difficulty producing speech sounds
Parents interested in the program will fill out a screener via the apply button below. Eligible students will receive in-depth pre-testing as well as post-testing to evaluate their progress.
Below is a flow chart detailing the screening process.
