IImagine a person wanting to get in shape. Going to the gym once a week will not give the same results as regular, daily training. Just like a physical therapist uses high-repetition exercises to retrain muscles, a dyslexia therapist uses intensive, multi-sensory instruction to retrain the brain to process language and link sounds to letters efficiently.

 

Without this intensity, the student may make some progress, but it is often not enough to close the gap between their reading ability and that of their peers. The goal of this intensity is not just to teach a student to read and spell, but to help them reach a level of automaticity so that reading and spelling become effortless, smooth, and less mentally exhausting.