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Orton-Gillingham

Samuel Orton (1879-1948) was a neuropsychiatrist and pathologist who worked with adults with brain damage. He also studied children with language processing difficulties (now associated with dyslexia) and created a teaching approach to help these children. Dr. Orton’s main contribution to education was the idea of multisensory teaching—integrating right and left brain functions by adding kinesthetic (movement) and tactile (sensory) learning with the visual and auditory.

Anna Gillingham (1878-1963) was an educator and psychologist who worked with Dr. Orton. She combined Dr. Orton’s teaching methods with her breakdown of the structure of the English language and introduced a structured, systematic approach to teaching the assorted representations of English phonemes. With Bessie Stillman, she wrote the Orton-Gillingham manual. It has been regularly updated and republished since 1935.

It is our belief that bottom-up teaching is as important to all students as top-down teaching, and both can be used concurrently. Over the years, we have seen remarkable results in all our students’ reading and spelling using an adapted OG method as part of our language arts teaching. Read more at ortonacademy.org

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