| The Orton-Gillingham Approach |
The treatment is educational ...
The Orton-Gillingham Approach is a research-based, reading, writing and spelling curriculum which is:
- designed for dyslexic readers and certain others struggling with literacy skills.
- validated by scientific reading research sponsored by The National Academy of Sciences emphasizing phonemic awareness, phoneme segmentation, the alphabetic principle, decoding, reading comprehension and fluency.
- flexible and individualized. Diagnostic/prescriptive teaching enables the teacher to adapt the curricular elements to the needs of each student.
- effective for all ages. A skilled Orton-Gillingham therapist can help students to achieve their potential and succeed in general education classes from grade school through college.
- success-oriented. Materials are presented in a direct instruction, multisensory format. Elements are introduced sequentially with cumulative review.
- sequential skill-building starting with the basics and advancing to highly complex language elements. Reading and spelling accuracy improves, often dramatically, as students learn to utilize letter-sound correspondences, syllable division patterns and spelling generalizations to decode and spell words.
- integrative with reading and spelling taught together using the visual, auditory and kinesthetic modalities simultaneously.
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