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Sally Childs. Sally Burwell Childs (June 10, 1905 – January 2, 1988) was a language training specialist, with an emphasis on furthering the research on dyslexia and educating dyslexic students. [1] Childs, along with several colleagues, opened an organization to help create dyslexia awareness called The Orton Society (later renamed ...
Samuel Torrey Orton (October 15, 1879 – November 17, 1948) was an American physician who pioneered the study of learning disabilities. He examined the causes and treatment of dyslexia .
The Orton-Gillingham approach is a multisensory phonics technique for remedial reading instruction developed in the early-20th century. It is practiced as a direct, explicit, cognitive, cumulative, and multi-sensory approach. While it is most commonly associated with teaching individuals with dyslexia, it is highly effective for all individuals ...
Anna Gillingham (1878–1963) was an educator and psychologist, known for her contributions to the Orton-Gillingham method for teaching children with dyslexia how to read. [1] [2] Early life and education [ edit ]
Career. Stillman was a teacher at the Ethical Culture School in New York when she met Anna Gillingham. [1] She began collaborating to further develop the teaching procedures of Samuel Orton, devised to help readers with dyslexia. [2] Gillingham and Stillman completed a remedial program called "The Alphabetic Method," which taught phonemes ...
Management of dyslexia depends on a multitude of variables; there is no one specific strategy or set of strategies that will work for all who have dyslexia.. Some teaching is geared to specific reading skill areas, such as phonetic decoding; whereas other approaches are more comprehensive in scope, combining techniques to address basic skills along with strategies to improve comprehension and ...
While in Hawaii, she worked with Anna Gillingham and Bessie Stillman on a multisensory method to help dyslexics learn to read. [4] [5] In the late 1940s she became the coordinator of a language disability program in the Renton, Washington [3] school district where she worked until 1965.
Dyslexia; List of Phonics Programs; Orton-Gillingham; Samuel Orton This page was last edited on 16 November 2023, at 19:39 (UTC). Text is available under ...