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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 . Career
Reading. 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 has been used for non-dyslexic ...
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 ...
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 International Dyslexia ...
Gillingham was born on July 12, 1879. She was home-schooled by her parents, who were both teachers. She spent much of her childhood living on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where her father was the local Indian agent. [3] She graduated from Swarthmore in 1900, but later earned a second B.A. from Radcliffe, followed by a master's ...
History. Founded in 1972, Trident Academy was known as the reading clinic where a handful of parents whose children had trouble with reading, took the SHEDD training program and learned to teach reading in order to tutor each other's children on Saturday mornings. Each parent volunteered to teach someone else's child in exchange for their child ...
On December 7, 1941, Beth was a witness to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Her Husband, John Slingerland, was a civilian employee on the naval base. She witnessed these attacks from her home in the hills above the harbor, and described the scene she saw in a detailed letter to her mother and father. [14] Throughout the letter, she describes with ...
843-373-8111. Grades. 2–12, post-graduate. Average class size. 10. Student to teacher ratio. 1:3. The Kildonan School was a private coeducational boarding and day school in Amenia, New York for students with dyslexia and language-based learning disabilities. It offered daily one-to-one Orton-Gillingham language remediation and a college ...