Summer Training in Reading Disorders

From August 15-20, The Sally Borden Program at Friends Academy, 1088 Tucker Road, North Dartmouth, will offer training in the Orton-Gillingham Reading Approach, a program that teaches children and/or adults with dyslexia or reading disorders how to read. Orton-Gillingham offers systematic, structured, and multisensory reading instruction that is highly successful and geared to the specific reading needs of each child.

This 60-hour course prepares its participants for the Associate Level at the Orton-Gillingham Academy (ortonacademy.org). Dawn Nieman, a Fellow at the Academy, who has been approved and licensed by the Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators to teach the Associates Level, will teach the course. She will provide this rigorous course during eight sessions this fall: August 15-20; and on October 15 and 16.

During this training, in addition to learning about dyslexia and reading disorders, participants will learn the following fundamental elements of the Orton-Gillingham approach: an introduction to phonology; handwriting instruction; basic phonics; morphology and words derived from Anglo-Saxon, Latin, and Greek; strategies for multi-sensory instruction; formal and informal testing and how to use that information for tutorials; Orton-Gillingham lesson planning; and writing and grammar skills.

Once participants have successfully completed this course, they may then begin working on a practicum by making arrangements with the instructor. This practicum will take place throughout the school year and prepare trainees to apply to the Academy of Orton-Gillingham at the Associate level.

For further information and sign-up, please call Friends Academy at 508-999-1356 ext. 1143 or visit the Friends Academy website at www.friendsacademy1810.org.

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