WELCOME TO
Celebrate Dyslexia
Unleashing Children's Unlimited Potential
Our focus is to bring solutions to our community in collaboration with parents of dyslexic children, teachers, students, medical professionals and community leaders to provide evidence-based information that will help navigate the current education system to ensure children’s individual success regardless of zip code.
bigcitysmalltown: Dyslexia in Our Classrooms, Courts, and Clinic
Dyslexia affects up to 1 in 5 people, yet many students and adults go undiagnosed. Jasmin shares on bigcitysmalltown podcast how her journey began at her own dining room table, advocating for her three sons, and grew into a citywide (and national) effort to push early screening, teacher training, and equitable access to dyslexia therapy.
Celebrate Dyslexia Learning Center
Celebrate Dyslexia is proud to offer a variety of professional development and training opportunities for educators to increase their knowledge on how to support students with dyslexia.
Professional Development:
- Dyslexia 101: 3-hour seminar that includes a simulation activity as well as general best practices on how to support students with dyslexia in the classroom
- BUILD: Day-long training in BUILD, a small group intervention program tailored for Kindergarten and 1st-grade students who need extra support in reading. BUILD strengthens foundational literacy skills through engaging, multisensory instruction, helping young learners overcome challenges and achieve reading success.
- Rite Flight: Day-long training in Rite Flight, a Tier II reading intervention program designed for students in 1st through 8th grade. This program can implemented as supplemental instruction, small group intervention or whole-class support, empowering educators to build students’ critical literacy skills.
- Certified Academic Language Practitioner: 1-year program for practitioner-level training in Multisensory Structured Language instruction that fosters strong accuracy, deep knowledge and self-reliance in students with dyslexia in reading and writing.
- Certified Academic Language Therapist: 2-year program to gain therapist-level knowledge in methodical Multisensory Structured Language targeted, diagnostic Tier-3 intervention for students with dyslexia.
- Reading By Design: 1-year program for training in Reading By Design, a systematic, multisensory intervention program that can be used as dyslexia intervention for individuals or small groups to develop literacy skills at all grade levels.
- JET: 1-year program for training in JET, a program designed for students 14 and older, focusing on the five components of effective reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
Are you interested in training with Celebrate Dyslexia? Please reach out to us to learn more about our programing at Qi@CelebrateDyslexia.org or fill out the interest form below and a member of our team will contact you.
OUR INITIATIVES
Celebrate Dyslexia’s medical
initiative is to serve individuals and
families impacted by dyslexia
through improving screening,
diagnosis, intervention, education,
support and innovation such that
dyslexia will be celebrated as a gift.
Celebrate Dyslexia is working to remove barriers to access of information, education, and intervention for students with dyslexia and their families. Strategies include experiential Dyslexia 101 training seminars, Celebrate Dyslexia Learning Center to build the capacity of dyslexia therapists, and the launch of a Generation 28 open-enrollment charter school, Celebrate Dyslexia Schools.
A portfolio of high-profile events will bring the community together highlighting the strengths of dyslexia and celebrating those who are impacted by it.
This is a movement that is imperative for the future generation and it should start here in San Antonio. An incubator of ideas for the country, San Antonio can be the first to change the narrative of dyslexia and remove the conventional obstacles for these promising young minds. As a result, this movement will not only impact the next generation, it may provide a corrective and healing experience for adults who were never identified and endured a painful and confusing academic journey. We hope you will join Celebrate Dyslexia in our mission today.
Systemic Change Through Partnership
Whitepaper in Collaboration with Manatt Health
Celebrate Dyslexia Schools Registration
Serving Kindergarten - 4th Grade in 2025/26
Celebrate Dyslexia Schools is now accepting applications for the 25/26 school year! CDS is expanding to accept students in Kindergarten- 4th grade. Submit your application today!
90% of children with reading difficulties will achieve grade level in reading if they receive help in the 1st grade. 75% children whose help is delayed to age 9 or later continue to struggle throughout their school career.
– 1996 by Vellutino, Scanton, Sipay, Small, Pratt, Chen and Denckla
the scope
Numbers speak for themselves
We’re ready to celebrate. Are you?