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I am the father of a child headed to middle school in a year. The constant fight for resources for our Dyslexic child in NYC for the past three years has exhausted me emotionally and financially. We are looking to leave the city limits for a better safer environment most likely in Nassau County. What I need to ask you is the following. Do any of you know which school districts specialize in Orton Gillingham? I heard nightmare stories from our lawyer about couples who moved for a better life only to screw up their child's dyslexia treatment. It seems some places try providing the watered down Wilsons program instead of the more effective Orton Gillingham. Our child only progressed with it. So before I e-mail every school district in Nassau County I thought to ask you parents directly. Which school district have the real deal and who are flat out fakes?
I hope collectively you can help me narrow down my target area.
This is a language arts tutoring company and friends used them for their Autistic children. You might pose your question to them
because I am certain they could probably narrow your search down and with broad based knowledge of the schools.
I know that at one time Garden City S.D. and Rockville Centre used O.G. I have no idea if they still do. I do know that Wilsons is used extensively by the NYC DOE, but not very familiar with middle school language arts.
Rather than email all of the districts in Nassau County, I'd give BOCES a call.
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I was a Resource Room teacher for over thirty years ( retired ). The Wilson program which btw was
orginally developed in Boston for inmates , is based on the much older Orton Gillingham program. All of these programs
use the very effective phonetic approach to reading . They are basically the same thing . One is not more effective than the other : they are the same program .
Recently Wilson has come out with the children's versions of their program , but they are based on the same premise :
that in order to read , children must be able to have the skills and knowledge to sound out words.
The original Wilson program was very tedious to teach because there seemed to be no joy in learning to
read . Both of the programs that you mentioned are learning by rote & cease to be effective after the first
year . Usually , after the first few months , I switched to reading books with stories that were actually fun
to read . There are many of these . Direct Instruction ( from Australia ) has a phonetic base and has the
most delightful stories that kids actually want to read .
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If I recall correctly, there was a kinesthetic component to the programs, at least with younger students. I don't know how it would be applied at the middle school level. I never went for the training.
In our experience, I don't think the reading intervention (Wilson) is doing anything for my son who is now in 8th. The Wilson program would have made a difference when my son was younger. I believe the accommodations (technology and resource room) has had the biggest impact for him in regards to his grades.
And don't get me started on "Balanced Literacy".
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