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The Atlantic Seaboard Dyslexia Education Center is a private, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Founded in 2000 in Rockville. Programs accredited by the International Multisensory Structured Languages Education Council.

Mission & Services

Our Mission

ASDEC trains teachers, academic therapists, and tutors in appropriate effective strategies and techniques for teaching students with language-based learning difficulties and differences which impact their abilities in learning language skills—reading, spelling, comprehension and writing, mathematics, and study skills. ASDEC also provides services for parents, and summer programs for students in elementary, middle and high school.

Our Services

  • Continuing Education Programs for Teachers
  • Workshops for Teachers, Tutors, Administrators, and Parents
  • Educational Screening and Testing
  • Prep Course for National Certification Examination
  • Consultation for Parents; Evaluation of Previous Testing, IEP’s
  • Parent Support Groups
  • Referrals for Professional Services and Schools, Local and U.S.

Dyslexia

Simply put, dyslexia means trouble with written language, with reading (decoding and comprehension), spelling, and writing. It is not a disease or condition that should be cured. Rather, it is a normal variation in human development. It brings with it skills, gifts and talents that are critical to our society.

News & Events

SUMMER PROGRAMS 2009

The Four-week program for students 7 to 10 years old

Four weeks of intensive one-on-one instruction in reading, handwriting, spelling, writing, and mathematics. Reading instruction covers training in phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency, and comprehension. Training in writing is focused on syntax and sentence structure. Math training focuses on concepts, and the language of instruction, place value, memory of basic facts, and basic operations. Children make substantial improvement in the four weeks, often gain as much as one or more years on standardized tests. Invariably, they do not want the session to be over.

Instructors in the program have completed special training to work with children with language-based learning difficulties, and are under the daily supervision of nationally certified master teachers.

Space is limited to eight (8) students.

July 6-31, 2008
9:00 - 12:00
Fee: $2800


The Four-week program for students in Middle School and High School (ages 11-14)

Four weeks of intensive instruction in reading, spelling, writing, study skills, and math. Students are taught in small groups. Reading, spelling, and vocabulary instruction includes advanced strategies for decoding, word attack, word recognition, and fluency. Instruction in writing includes grammar and syntax. Included in High School is literary analysis. Learning strategies and study skills instruction is focused on mastery of content subjects, and employs structured procedures which significantly improve comprehension and memory. The math program for the middle school students includes concepts and the language of mathematics, place value, the four basic operations, and fractions, and aims for automaticity in number facts. High School students work on advanced math skills including factors and multiples, solving basic functions, and graphing on the coordinate plan.

Instructors in the program are master teachers, academic therapists who are nationally certified as specialists in teaching students with learning difficulties. Each has an outstanding record in restoring students’ self-confidence and self-esteem.

July 6 - 31
Overview of Phonics: 8:00 - 8:55
Fee: $600

Study Skills and Math: 9:00 - 12:00
Fee: $2800

Space is limited to eight (8) students in the middle school and eight (8) students in the high school programs.

Parents of children in past summers have given high praise to the programs. Students have reported that they have learned more and better in the four weeks than in the previous school year.







Student Summer Programs











Summer Lower Program