Orton-Gillingham Training – Associate Level. This 70 hour course covers all the basic curricular components designed to transfer to 1:1 teaching. The comprehensive training focuses on the multisensory principles of teaching as well as current research-based language instruction designed to integrate reading with spelling and writing. The class content includes dyslexia and reading disorders, the rationale of the OG Approach, phonology and morphology, the motor component and the writing process, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and fluency. Assessment and diagnostic-prescriptive teaching, the student profile, lesson plan, and teaching materials, the OGA structure and requirements.

Practicum: A 100 hour practicum follows and can be arranged upon request.

Prerequisite: Bachelor’s Degree
Fellow: Kathleen Stewart Loftus, F/OGA