Language Immersion Students and Dyslexia
All children in kindergarten are given DIBELS as a dyslexia screening including those in Spanish Immersion. If a child in the Spanish Immersion program shows risk factors of dyslexia, LOSD will use Esperanza, a Spanish language Orton-Gillingham program for intervention.
What is Esperanza?
The Esperanza program is a Spanish multisensory structured language approach for reading, writing, and spelling. The goal of the Esperanza program is to provide a multisensory, sequential, systematic approach to achieve Spanish literacy.