What is Basic Language Skills (BLS)?

Basic Language Skills is an intensive, therapeutic curriculum that meets the guidelines of the Texas Dyslexia Legislation and is effective with students with dyslexia and other related disorders. The research-based curriculum shares similar philosophies and characteristics with other Orton-Gillingham-based curricula and provides instruction in phonemic awareness, letter recognition, decoding, spelling, fluency, comprehension, handwriting, vocabulary, and oral and written expression. It is designed to be taught by a dyslexia specialist 4 or 5 days a week for 50 - 60 minutes a day. While both are Orton-Gillingham-based, Basic Language Skills is a different curriculum than Alphabetic Phonics.