The Orton-Gillingham approach is a structured, multisensory method for teaching reading and spelling, developed from the work of neuropsychiatrist Samuel Orton and educator Anna Gillingham in the 1930s, originally for students with dyslexia. It teaches the relationships between letters and sounds explicitly and cumulatively, engaging visual, auditory and kinesthetic-tactile pathways together, for example having a student trace a letter's shape while saying its sound aloud, and it underlies many of the structured-literacy reading programs used in schools and clinical settings today.
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Central QuestionCan an explicit, direct, sequential, systematic, multisensory approach to letter-sound relationships make reading and spelling accessible to students for whom it does not come easily? 1 Most Effective ForStudents with dyslexia and others for whom reading, writing and spelling do not come easily. 1 Connections
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Orton-Gillingham Approach's own live entity-description: it underlies many of the structured-literacy reading programs used in schools and clinical settings today.
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It was the first approach to use explicit, direct, sequential, systematic, multi-sensory instruction to teach reading, which is effective for all students and essential for teaching students with dyslexia.
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