Instructional programs and materials used:

Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® program (LiPS®)
The Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® program, created by the late Patricia Lindamood, a speech pathologist, is a program which is designed to teach students skills to decode words and to identify individual sounds and blends in words.  Students focus on the articulatory features of consonant and vowel sounds. They discover with their teacher that the sounds are not just heard, but seen and felt. [more]

Precision Teaching
Precision Teaching is a data-based instructional technique which we at ESLEA combine with our curriculum objectives and the programs which we employ.  Using this approach we are able to accelerate the development of skills and knowledge as well as to monitor the effectiveness of instruction. [more]

Haughton Learning Center Materials (Related to Precision Teaching)
Elizabeth Haughton has been a consultant to ESLEA for several years. Her materials are often used in our programs.

Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment Program (Cognitive Skill Development)
Feuerstein’s Instrumental Enrichment is a program which helps to develop or strengthen the cognitive skills necessary for learning and achievement.  The program was developed in the 1950’s by Professor Reuven Feuerstein as a tool for the enhancement of learning potential and has been used successfully in more than seventy countries. [more]

Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets (PROMPT)
PROMPT is a dynamic, tactile method of treatment for motor speech disorders. It helps to reshape individual and connected articulatory movements and sequences (co-articulations) of movements.

TalkTools Oral Motor Therapy for Speech and Language

Kurzweil 3000 Assistive Technology
Kurzweil 3000 is an innovative reading, writing, and learning software program. This program is beneficial to students with reading difficulties. It is an assistive technology program which provides tools to enable students to improve their reading speed and comprehension. It also helps develop study skills which enable them to become independent learners.