Dyslexia California

  Dyslexia Parents Resource

If you know of any other organizations, groups or contacts (including your own), please send details on the form below.

• Santa Barbara City College - Disabled Student Programs and Services.
  
  
• International Dyslexia Association
  Local US States and Territories branches of the International Dyslexia Association are listed here.
  
  
• California Service for Technical Assistance and Training - discussion board.
  
  
• Southern California Comprehensive Assistance Center
  
  
• Learning Disabilities Association of California - a non-profit volunteer organization of parents, professionals, and adults with learning disabilities. Its purpose is to promote and support the education and general welfare of children and adults of potentially normal intelligence who manifest learning, perceptual, and/or behavioral handicaps.
  
  
• University of California Berkeley - Parents Recommendation on Dyslexia: requests for advice from parents.
  
  
• California Literacy Campaign (Adults) - State Literacy Resource Center of California.
  
  
• Resource Specialists and School Psychologists - referrals for further testing and assessment.
  
  
• Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic - Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic's library contains more than 83,000 titles in a broad variety of subjects, from literature and history to math and the sciences, at all academic levels, from kindergarten through post-graduate and professional. Chances are, if the book is in your curriculum, it's in our library! Anyone with a documented disability—including a visual impairment, learning disability or other physical disability which makes reading standard print difficult or impossible—is eligible to use RFB&D's taped textbooks, once you are a member. We have four units in California. Palo Alto, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles and Upland.
  
  
• Lindamood-Bell - Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes-Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes® is an internationally-renowned leader in educational instruction and research. Our centers, located throughout the US, provide specialized education programs for individuals ranging from severely learning disabled to academically gifted; ages 5 years through adult. Information is available regarding the sensory-cognitive issues surrounding language and literacy development, including the symptoms of dyslexia, hyperlexia, attention-deficit disorder, and autism. Four programs are available to develop the sensory-cognitive brain functions necessary for language and literacy development. Please call 1-800-300-1818 for further information, or to set up a personal information visit with our clinic director.
  
  
• Orange County Center for Learning Disability Assessment & Tutoring - Education First is an Orange County, California company that focuses on educational assessment, consultation, and intervention for learning disabilities such as ADD, ADHD, LD, Dyslexia, Asperger's, Autism, and Behavior Problems.
  
  
• Special Parents Information Network - local CA resource for parents and professionals. Special Parents Information Network Supporting Families who have Children with Special Needs.
  
  
• The Prentice School - 18341 Lassen Drive, Santa Ana, CA 92705. Tel: (714-538-4511). Private, non-profit school for children with language-based learning disabilities (dyslexia), grades Pre-K - 8.
  
  
• Southern California Dyslexia Institute 
  
  
• Pride Learning Centers - At Pride Learning Centers we specialize exclusively in teaching reading, writing and spelling to struggling and nonreaders. We work one-to-one with students in a positive, patient and caring environment. Learning differences such as dyslexia and ADHD are specifically addressed. We use the most recent research-validated methods to engage and keep each student on task and intrinsically motivated.  Pride's reading program is based on Orton-Gillingham research.
  

Bookshops, publishers, equipment, etc:

• Special Needs Bookstore - Santa Barbara.
  
  
• Powerline Reading Programs - Palmdale: our goal is to provide information and training for persons over the age of 7 to improve their reading, comprehension, language development, spelling, writing and memory. Our program can help those with learning problems, dyslexia, ADHD and more.

Dyslexia centers and tutors:

• Dyslexia Center, Santa Rosa - Solutions to reading, writing, and attention problems.
  
  
• The Herman Method Reading Institute - Sherman Oaks - a multi-sensory, bi-hemispheric approach to help students compensate for their visual and auditory processing problems. Students are taught the complete range of reading skills and achieve reading competency upon completion of the program. They master twenty levels of instruction. Each reading level has a spelling and handwriting component to reinforce reading skills.
  
  
• Stockdale Learning Center - State Certified Educational Therapy clinic designed to collaboratively diagnose and assess individuals 5 years of age through adult. At SLC, we assess for Specific Learning Disabilities (SLD), Dyslexia, or Attention Deficit Disorders (ADD/ADHD). We follow-up with clinical remediation utilizing historic multisensory phonetic therapies (Orton-Gillingham, Slingerland, Frostig, Wilson, Alphabetic Phonetics, Zweig-Bruno Reading Reinforcement Program, and others).
  
  
• Irlen Institute Centers in California
  
  
• Chartwell School - educating children with dyslexia and related language learning disabilities in a way that provides them with the learning skills and self-esteem necessary to return successfully to mainstream education. Chartwell is in the tri-county area of Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz.
  Please call (831) 394-3468 or email information@chartwell.org for additional information.

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