The Orton-Gillingham Multisensory Method was developed in the early 1930's by Anna Gillingham and a group of master teachers.
Dr. Samuel Orton assigned Anna's group the task of designing a whole new way of teaching the phonemic structure of our written language to people with dyslexia.
The goal was to create a sequential system that builds on itself in an almost 3-dimensional way. It must show how sounds and letters are related and how they act in words; it must also show how to attack a word and break it into smaller pieces.
And it must be a multi-sensory approach, as dyslexic people learn best by involving all of their senses: visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic.
The Orton-Gillingham Multisensory Method is different from other reading methods in two ways: what is taught, and how it is taught.
What is taught:
Phonemic Awareness is the first step. You must teach someone how to listen to a single word or syllable and break it into individual phonemes.
They also have to be able to take individual sounds and blend them into a word, change sounds, delete sounds, and compare sounds -- all in their head. These skills are easiest to learn before someone brings in printed letters.
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"And it must be a multi-sensory approach, as dyslexic people learn best by involving all of their senses: visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic."
The implication of dyslexics learn best is that ALL dyslexics learn best with multisensory methods.Research does not support that conclusion. Many , most, a majority would be OK to use as qualifiers but no qualifer implys all.
To add a qualifier where none is needed seems strange also.
Dyslexic people seems redundant as poodle dog , flounder fish or eagle bird .
My niche is visual dyslexia and when you have trouble seeing text on a page dyslexia glasses are much better than multusensory instruction for visual dyslexics.
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