Orton Gillingham Tutoring- What You Need To Know

Orton Gillingham Tutoring is a customized approach for Kids Who has difficulty with reading and writing, i.e. they are suffering with dyslexia.

Its flexibility, one-to-one tutoring system and effectiveness make the approach best suitable for helping ADHD kids on broader canvas.

It is a multisensory approach, which uses 4 main pathways to make kids understand and learn concepts.

These 4 sensors:

1)    Visual (eyes to see)

2)   Auditory (ears to hear)

3)   Tactile (hands to feel)

4)   Kinesthetic (body to move)

How does the Orton-Gillingham Approach works?

The O-G Approach helps children and adults suffering with dyslexia on how to read and spell the words or sentences.

·   It emphasizes on decoding of words. It explains how to decode or break complete word into their syllables and phonemes (the smallest unit of sound), which will make it easy for them to understand then. And they can easily read the word.

·   It also explains on the encoding of the words, which results in proper spelling of words, it teaches on how to encode, or break down words orally into their syllables and phonemes.

·   It enhances automaticity and fluency at basic reading and writing level.

·   It also teaches continuous text fluency or composition of words /sentences. 

Though you will get to see lot many ads claiming to provide Orton Gillingham Tutoring, but need to be very choosy while selecting one for our kid.

Levy learning centre is the only learning center in Florida with Orton-Gillingham trained tutors. We specialize in Dyslexia and have proven track record.

You can have one of our Orton Gillingham specialists, who can go to your home in Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties.

Let us know if you need help for your kid or any knowledge share in this regard. We will be happy to serve you. 

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Auditory Processing Disorder in Children - An Often Overlooked Learning Disability

Have you ever felt that your kid falls short at listening? He could hear what you said but didn’t follow it?  If this happens often, it could be a sign of Auditory Processing Disorder in your Children.

APD is type of learning disability, which is commonly overlooked by the parents. The Auditory processing disorder (APD), also known as central auditory processing disorder (CAPD), is particularly a hearing problem.

Kids with this problem can't follow what they hear because of lack of proper co-ordination between their ears and brain.

Normally the brain processes sounds in fractions of seconds and seamlessly. In fact, people quickly interpret and respond to what they hear. But it’s not the case with the kids suffering with APD.

They respond slow or may not answer to question being asked, they might listen something else, for them there is confusion between sounds and words The common symptoms seen in kids suffering with APD usually are as following:

·                     It’s not easy for them to follow spoken directions

·                     First reply to anyone is”What?”

·                     Easily distracted, by any background/loud or sudden noises

·                     Difficulty with listening, reading and spelling

·                     Difficulty in recognizing and interpreting sounds

·                     Struggle with oral study problems

·                     Not able to follow conversations

·                     Poor music understanding

·                     Not easy to learn songs or nursery rhymes

·                     Trouble with memory

As parents you need to understand that kids with CAPD have to work harder in comparison to other kids for sustaining normal day to day life.

It’s better to get proper medication and get your children one-to-one tutoring, which will really help him to overcome this problem.

We at Levy Learning centre, runs many customized programs for APD kids, we specialize in Dyslexia and are the only learning center in Florida with Orton-Gillingham trained tutors. 

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