HOME is designed for profoundly dyslexic learners who require personalized assessment, sequenced intervention and 1:1 program delivery for language arts and math in order to achieve their full potential. We have a handful of spots in our inaugural cohort available for the 2025/2026 school year.

Dyslexia exists on a continuum and while about 20% of the total population is estimated to have a dyslexic profile, a small fraction of this population will present with profound dyslexia. Dyslexia diagnosis do not generally indicate if your child’s dyslexia is mild, moderate or profound.  However, profound dyslexia is often characterized by extreme test scores and long-term struggles learning to read even with solid, professional dyslexia tutoring. Profound dyslexia also, almost always, presents with co-existent learning conditions including attention and executive functioning challenges further compounding struggles with learning.  

When your child’s dyslexia is profound, you have likely found it extremely difficult to navigate school systems.  Public schools have limited resources to support this complex profile which often leads to these students being underserved and falling farther and farther behind their peers. Private schools, even those designed specifically for dyslexic learners, often won’t accept profoundly affected students due to their complex learning needs, closing that avenue to your child. Families may resort to homeschooling and private tutoring which allows you to fully customize your curriculum but leaves you without a school community.  With the HOME program, we want to end this cycle for children and their families.  Profound dyslexia should not disqualify these brilliant minds from school and a sense of belonging. Their unique learning styles are simultaneously their greatest challenge and gift.  And if we fail to address the challenge, we collectively lose the gifts. 

HOME is the only program of its kind in the Bay Area, inviting kids to belong in a school community while simultaneously providing ongoing 1:1 assessment, remediation and support recommendations for their individual learning needs in language arts and math. We do this by providing a tightly knit community of diverse, multi-age learners.  Some of our peers learn to read in a typical fashion, some have more mild forms of dyslexia and others experience dyslexia profoundly. By doing our learning together, the multi age group normalizes the variations in reading abilities across learners. Some students are learning to read and other students are reading to learn. By removing expectations and  teaching methods that require students to read fluently by a certain age, we remove literacy as a gate to learning in our program, while simultaneously doing the deep work to unlock literacy for our most challenged learners. Profoundly dyslexic students will not thrive when they are blindly plugged into commercial programs. While we can’t offer unlimited programs on campus, we can commit to partnering with you to create a coherent, prioritized, sequenced learning plan to help identify and address underlying deficits that may be preventing your child from reaching their potential.  We are looking to partner with families who want to jointly tackle these challenges and be part of finding solutions for their own child and our children collectively.

As a homeschool bridge program, HOME students learn together in Rising Oak’s vibrant, multi-age community of approximately 30 learners, Monday - Thursday from 8:30 AM - 3:00 PM.  Tuesdays and Thursdays focus on enrichment including art, drama, service learning, gardening, and animal husbandry. Mondays and Wednesdays provide a deep focus on math, reading, and writing.  While Rising Oak students do their math, reading and writing work in small groups based on personal progress and growth, HOME students take this time to work 1:1, for the entire block of time, with educational therapists and specialists at their precise level and on their personal goals for growth. 

A sample schedule for a Monday/Wednesday is listed below: 

• 8:30-9am free play 

• 9am - morning meeting/jobs

• 9:15am - math

• 10am - 10:45 - snack and recess

• 10:45 - 12pm - ELA 

• 12pm - 1pm - lunch and recess

• 1 - 1:30pm - read aloud 

• 1:30 - 2:35pm - Writing/handwriting

• 2:35 - 3pm - end of day clean up and wrap up