Community Brain Lab is now an approved education service provider for the SC Education Scholarship Trust Fund. The ETSF program provides $6000 scholarships to qualifying South Carolina students. The 2025-2026 student application period will open January 15, 2025. 

Proven the most effective for all readers, the Structured Literacy approach prepares students to decode words explicitly and systematically. This method forms the basis of intervention with all our students. The International Dyslexia Association provides this brief overview.
​dyslexiaida.org/effective-reading-instruction-for-students-with-dyslexia/

Accommodation allows students to succeed with outside help but leaves them limited in what they can do on their own.
Intervention helps students strengthen areas of deficit and equips them with strategies to overcome their barriers to learning.
Both approaches are generally necessary to deal effectively with a learning disability. Compensation allows students to succeed academically until the necessary skills are developed for independence. Direct intervention--and the resulting competence and confidence--empowers students with the skills needed to become independent, lifelong learners.
Teaching students HOW to learn provides students the eventual freedom of success on their own as self-sufficient learners.
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​Community Brain Lab partners with parents in the education of their children by providing:
 

• Educational Therapy for students with learning differences.
• screening and targeted intervention of foundational auditory and visual perceptual skills for pre-readers.
• Tests of Dyslexia screening, comprehensive assessment, and diagnosis for ages 5 years – adult.
• individual academic support for students needing added instruction, accountability, organization, and executive function assistance.
• academic assessment by certified practitioners of the Woodcock Johnson Tests of Academic Achievement.

 
We serve families in homeschool, private, and public-school settings. Enrollment is now open for the 2024-2025 academic year.

​The TOD-C provides a comprehensive dyslexia assessment for individuals in early elementary school through adulthood. Together with two of the tests from TOD-S, and six from the TOD-C are combined to create the Dyslexia Diagnostic Index (DDI). The DDI is the primary score in the TOD-C for determining the probability that the individual has dyslexia.
 
An additional 14 tests allow for further assessment of skills related to dyslexia yielding additional composite scores. These domains include reading and spelling, linguistic processing, and vocabulary and reasoning.

​The TOD-E is appropriate for pre-readers or emerging readers and is comprised of six tests. Together with the three tests from TOD-S, the TOD-E provides index scores for determining the probability that the individual has dyslexia. The nine total tests provide further information about the skills relevant to dyslexia.

​Tests of Dyslexia - Screener can be used with individuals in kindergarten through adulthood and is composed of three tests which screen for the risk of dyslexia. TOD-S provides a Dyslexia Risk Index (DRI) which is considered an estimate of dyslexia risk.
Contact Community Brain Lab for more information and scheduling.