Orton gillingham dyslexia

Posted by Thomas Shaw on April 9th, 2018

Orton gillingham dyslexia - pridereadingprogram.com delivers an orton-gillingham curriculum to help children struggling with learning to read and spell. The program is especially helpful to people with Dyslexia, auditory and visual processing disorders and speech delays.

While there are many really great reading and phonics programs in the homeschool market, most of these are not geared towards children with dyslexia. The best choice is an Orton-Gillingham program. Orton-Gillingham is a really structured, step-by-step, repetitive and multisensory approach. This means that when the kids are learning to read, they learn each skill individually. They see it, say it, hear it and move with it. They also practice it over and over again until it really “sticks.” Orton-Gillingham is proven in research to be the most effective reading program out there for children with dyslexia. Here are the best Orton-Gillingham homeschool curriculums that are heavily scripted out so that you will not need any formal Orton-Gillingham training and you can just follow the script:

The PRIDE Reading Program

The Barton Reading & Spelling System

The Wilson Reading System

Use a lot of Practice and Repetition

This is the best part about homeschooling a child with dyslexia because your child is going to get to take their time, work through the programs slowly and at their own rate and accomplish what they need – which is a lot of repetition and practice. I really can’t stress this enough. A child with dyslexia requires overlearning to achieve mastery. If you are using one of the heavily scripted out Orton-Gillingham reading programs I mentioned above, then you will practice this repetition with your child. Let’s use an example. You are teaching the letter combination ea that makes a long a sound like in the word steak:

Your child will see a picture of a steak and the child will say “ea –long a – steak.”

Your child will write the ea in the air 3 times while saying it aloud.

Your child will practice at least 3 phonemic activities with the ea (like the ones I mentioned above).

Your child will arm tap, palm write, write the ea in shaving cream, sand, etc.

Your child will write 10 words with the ea that you dictate to them (great, break, wear, bear, etc.).

Your child will read a list of words with ea and underline the ea as they read.

Your child will read sentences with the ea.

Your child will read an entire decodable text highlighting the ea.