For many students with learning disabilities, it can be difficult to find an approach that best suits your needs. As many have attempted to find the best approach, some have found great results with the Orton-Gillingham approach and it has allowed kids with learning disabilities to make great strides academically.
What is the Orton-Gillingham Approach?
To begin, what is the Orton-Gillingham approach? The Orton-Gillingham approach is a teaching approach that was specially crafted with struggling readers in mind. This approach helps them to make deliberate connections between sounds and letters, which will help them with the overall reading process. The Orton-Gillingham approach allows for the gradual building of reading skills through the process, as students will break down reading and spelling into more bite-sized pieces. Instructors will use a multi sensory approach which involves hearing, touch, sight, and movement as a way for students to make connections between letters and words as they navigate the reading process. This approach is especially helpful for those students who have dyslexia, as it allows students to decode words on their own and understand them on a fundamental level.
Why do Teachers Like to Use This Method of Teaching?
Teachers like to use this method because it provides students with the opportunity to pick apart language and understand it from various different perspectives. Not only will words make more sense because students can pick them apart, but it also allows teachers to be more creative with their work. When teachers utilize this method, they can teach students about language by using all of the senses. For example, students may learn about the letter r by seeing it, hearing it, and playing with rice. This stimulates the brain and makes those connections in a different way.
Helping Your Students Learn is the Priority!
Here at My Tutor Anywhere, we utilize this method and provide your student with learning disabilities, the opportunity to make those meaningful language connections and strive academically. Our main priority is to help your students learn and make lasting connections so that they can use the material we teach in a learning setting, and strive. Our only goal is for your student to learn and use our methods to make their learning processes easier and more efficient. We here at Chicagoland Tutoring understand how difficult learning disabilities may be and we are here to help!
If you are interested in the Orton-Gillingham approach and feel like it may be the best course of action for your student, give us a call today or visit our website Mytutoranywhere.com. If you want to inquire about other methods that may suit your student best, give us a call for a consultation. We here at My Tutor Anywhere take tutoring very seriously and believe in the philosophy behind our tutoring methods and practices. We offer a range of different methods that may best suit your students unique learning needs, so give us a call today!
