Who Benefits from Orton Gillingham Tutoring?
Students who have dyslexia, language-based learning disabilities, and those who struggle with reading and spelling benefit from Orton Gillingham instruction. EBL Coaching’s Orton Gillingham tutoring helps students develop their fundamental decoding and encoding skills using a structured, evidence-based, multi-sensory approach. Read more at How to Improve Your Dyslexic Child’s Reading Skills – EBL Coaching.
The Orton Gillingham tutoring that EBL Coaching provides starts at the student’s initial levels and teaches them phonetic sounds and concepts by integrating the visual, auditory, and tactile/kinesthetic modalities. Our Orton Gillingham tutoring utilizes tools such as colored sand, shaving cream, magnetic tiles, white boards, and learning games to help students develop their reading and spelling skills. The Orton Gillingham tutoring we provide can take place either at your home or at one of our learning centers, as well as virtually. Our Orton Gillingham materials and workbooks help reinforce the concepts learned from students’ Orton Gillingham tutoring.
Every student learns differently, and EBL Coaching is always focused on the specific needs of each individual student.
What is Orton Gillingham?
The Orton Gillingham approach is a multi-sensory, language-based methodology that has been used since the 1930’s. The method teaches the basics of forming words using the auditory, visual, and kinesthetic modalities simultaneously. It is flexible, individualized to the needs of each student, and integrates:
- Phonemic awareness
- Phonics
- Vocabulary
- Reading fluency
- Comprehension
When working with students who have learning disabilities, EBL Coaching provides individualized Orton Gillingham instruction that is consistently adjusted as the student progresses, to best suit their needs. With our specialized tutoring program, EBL Coaching provides Orton Gillingham instruction and integrates multi-sensory techniques to help students with dyslexia develop stronger skills and strengthen their self-esteem.
Our Orton Gillingham tutoring engages students and helps them enjoy learning while building their fundamental reading and writing skills. The tutors providing this instruction are highly experienced in working with students who have academic skills difficulties, as well as those with learning disabilities, ADHD, dyslexia, and executive functioning challenges. Our methods are effective and evidence-based. Whether you bring your child to one of our learning centers or prefer an in-home Orton Gillingham tutor, your child will receive individualized, research-based instruction that is custom-tailored to their needs. Students with academic challenges, learning disabilities, dyslexia, focusing difficulties, or ADHD all benefit from this instruction. Read more at How to Improve Your Dyslexic Child’s Reading Skills – EBL Coaching.
As a supplement to our teaching methods, we also utilize multiple evidence-based, multi-sensory workbooks designed to help children build their reading, writing, math, phonemic awareness, note taking, test taking, executive functioning, and auditory processing skills. Our EBL Coaching learning centers use these and other research-based techniques that are most appropriate for the needs of each child. Using our Flags and Stars Orton Gillingham materials, EBL Coaching helps students build their reading, writing, phonemic awareness, and fluency skills. With our dyslexia tutoring, we integrate these materials and corresponding manipulatives to provide multi-sensory instruction that helps students with dyslexia build their academic skills and develop a stronger self-esteem.
While the Orton Gillingham approach was originally designed for students with learning disabilities, this method can help all children improve their reading and spelling skills. The 26 letters in the English language combine into 44 speech sounds, with hundreds of ways to spell these sounds. Our tutoring program integrates engaging multi-sensory tools to supplement the Orton Gillingham method, including magnetic tiles, white boards, colored sand, shaving cream, and learning games to help make learning fun while solidifying these important skills. Students with reading and writing challenges, learning disabilities, dyslexia, and ADHD all benefit from this type of learning.
Learn more about resources for dyslexia at Home | Dylexia Resources.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Orton Gillingham research-based?
Yes! Orton Gillingham is a research-based, multi-sensory approach that helps students develop their reading and spelling skills. It is systematic and individualized to each student’s needs, integrating previously taught concepts as new concepts are introduced.
How is Orton Gillingham different from Wilson?
Orton Gillingham is a multi-sensory, flexible, individualized approach that helps students with dyslexia and reading challenges develop their reading and spelling skills. Wilson is a step-by-step program and workbook series that is based on Orton Gillingham principles.
How long does Orton Gillingham tutoring take?
All students respond at a different pace to tutoring but because of the effectiveness of the Orton Gillingham approach, we tend to see positive changes quickly. Frequency of sessions also plays a role in a student’s progress.
Do you offer Orton Gillingham tutoring in-home in NYC and NJ?
Yes! We offer Orton Gillingham tutoring at the home in NYC and all surrounding areas. We also offer in-home Orton Gillingham tutoring in Bergen County, NJ and the surrounding areas. Additionally, we offer tutoring virtually and at our learning centers.