Click here to read ASHA's overview of language-based learning disorders.

Learn more about the evidence-based behind SPELL-Links here. The SPELL-Links process goes like this:

1. The SPELL-2 assessment is administered. (SPELL-2 is a computerized assessment that is on one specific clinic laptop)

2. SPELL-2 identifies areas of need and prescribes the specific SPELL-Links lessons and activities that need to be

3. We transfer the recommended lessons from the SPELL-2 results onto the Performance-Based Intervention Plan (PBIP) (Circle the lesson and the activity). The PBIP will be kept in your client's binder in my cabinet in the clinic.

4. You will administer the circled lessons from the PBIP in the order they appear on the PBIP (not in numerical order). Start with the first activity that is circled and administered it and every activity after it. Check each activity off as it is completed. At the end of each lesson, administer the Mastery Measurement assessments and record the percent correct on the PBIP. It is VERY important that you keep the PBIP up to date.

5. Activities can be found on OneDrive or in the physical SPELL-Links books, which are kept in my cabinet in the clinic.

• Many, but not all, of the SPELL-Links Lessons have been uploaded to OneDrive. If you need a lesson that is not uploaded to the OneDrive, please text me at 901-581-4688 to let me know and I will get it uploaded. In the meantime you can find it in the physical SPELL_Links books in the clinic if you need it.

• Each lesson contains several word-level activities, several writing activities, and several reading activities. After all activities are done, you administer the Mastery Measurement assessments.

• You will not necessarily start at the first activity in the lesson. You will start on the activity that is circled on the PBIP and then do all the subsequent activities in that lesson.

• The word-level activities are different for each lesson, but the reading and writing activities are the SAME for every lesson (the just use different target words based on which lesson you are on).

• READING AND WRITING ACTIVITIES ARE IN THEIR OWN FOLDER IN ONEDRIVE. If the activity calls for a worksheet or passage, you will find it in the lesson folder.

• Writing activities come BEFORE reading activities.

• On the left hand side of the activity, you will see what materials you need for the activity.

• When activities call for word cards, you will find them in the file for that lesson on OneDrive. If your child is older or more advanced, you will want to add additional words to those that are provided and we have a computer program called "WordList Maker" that will generate those words for you. Just ask me about it.

• When activities call for worksheets, you will find those in the Lesson folder.

• The last reading activity calls for a grade-level passage. For this, I recommend thinking of a word that contains the target sound/spelling and then googling. E.g. "Third grade passage about igloos".

• Mastery Measurement forms are in the One Drive folder.