SPELL-Links for Parents
We are committed to helping all students — and especially those students already behind in their reading and writing skills — with effective at-home learning opportunities and individualized support so your child’s literacy skills can grow and flourish.
Identify Specific Gaps Hindering Your Child's Progress
Get a Personalized Learning Plan & Support to Close the Gaps
Watch Your Child's Confidence & Literacy Skills Improve
Why SPELL-Links?
Because your child needs targeted, evidence-based instruction to close learning gaps.
SPELL-Links is not a “one-size fits most” program; your child receives only the instruction she needs. No more precious time wasted with re-learning concepts already mastered, memorizing complex rules, or doing activities and busy work not supported by research.
SPELL-Links’ revolutionary curriculum, grounded firmly in research, leverages the brain’s innate wiring through a speech-to-print model: It helps students attend to the sounds of spoken words and connect letters to the sounds and the meaning of words they speak so they are able to successfully read and write words within rich and meaningful communications.
Because your child deserves help from a highly specialized learning professional.
No avatars, virtual coaches, or uncredentialed professionals here. Our language and literacy experts are state licensed and nationally certified professionals who specialize in diagnostic assessment and individualized treatment of language-based learning problems, including dyslexia and dysgraphia. You can be confident that they will administer and skillfully interpret your child’s data from appropriate testing, work effectively with your child, and evaluate and communicate reading, writing, and spelling progress results directly with you. Our team of humans adheres to tele-practice service delivery guidelines established by state regulatory agencies and professional organizations. If you prefer in-person services, we’ll connect you with the nearest qualified provider in your geographic area.
How does it work?
- Your child will complete an online assessment using the web-based version of the SPELL-3 professional assessment program.
- You will receive the assessment reports and a personalized learning plan to quickly close the specific gaps that are interfering with your child’s reading and spelling.
- You may choose to enroll your child in our SPELL-Links Online Therapy Program with one of our professionals matched to your child's specific learning needs. If you prefer in-person services, we can help you learn more about selecting a qualified learning specialist in your area and help you locate a SPELL-Links Certified Provider or SPELL-Links Certified Center.
- Alternatively, you may choose to share the detailed results, recommendations, and tailored intervention plan from the SPELL-3 testing with your child's school and/or the non-school professional working with your child.
What can you expect?
Most students experience improvement in confidence and skills almost immediately; individual results depend on many factors. The professional working with your child can provide a statement of prognosis once familiar with your child’s unique profile.
In a study conducted by the Florida Center for Reading Research and published in Reading & Writing Quarterly, students who received SPELL-Links group instruction 4 days/week for 8 weeks made significant gains. Other studies have documented similar improvements over the course of eight weeks of SPELL-Links instruction.
Parent Resources
At Learning By Design, we view parents as our educational partners. We are committed to sharing information and discussing ideas that will empower you as you support and advocate for your child.
Knowledge empowers parents to advocate for proper services for their child. Join our free SPELLTalk community of reading scientists and researchers, education professionals, and parents worldwide. Professional members receive abstracts of current research and discuss hot topics. Parents are invited to "lurk and learn" in order to better advocate for their children.