About Dyslexia

What is Dyslexia?

Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the phonological component of language, and are unexpected, considering other cognitive abilities and the provision of effective classroom instruction. Secondary consequences may include problems in reading comprehension and reduced reading experience that can impede growth of vocabulary and background knowledge.

Signs that your child may have dyslexia...

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Reading difficulties like...

Difficulty learning to read
Difficulty identifying or generating rhyming words (Phonological Awareness)
Difficulty counting syllables in words (Phonological Awareness)
Difficulty with hearing and manipulating sounds in words (Phonemic Awareness)
Difficulty distinguishing different sounds in words (Auditory Discrimination)
Difficulty in learning the sounds of letters
Difficulty remembering names and/or shapes of letters
Misreads or omits common small words
"Stumbles” through longer words
Poor reading comprehension during oral or silent reading
Slow, laborious oral reading

Writing struggles such as...

Difficulty spelling
May do well on weekly spelling tests (memorize) but doesn't incorporate the learned spelling into daily work
Difficulty proofreading work
Difficulty putting ideas on paper

Speech struggles such as...

Difficulty pronouncing words
Difficulty acquiring vocabulary or using age-appropriate grammar
Difficulty following directions
Confusion with before/after, right/left, and so on
Difficulty learning the alphabet, nursery rhymes, or songs
Difficulty understanding concepts and relationships
Difficulty with word retrieval or naming problems

Why our method works...

The best way to teach dyslexic children to read is through something called an Orton-Gillingham approach. This approach uses multiple senses to activate different pathways in the brain while reading. We use an Orton-Gillingham approach at the dyslexia center and tailor the program to your child's specific needs.

Our Method...

The Orton-Gillingham Approach is a research-based, reading, writing, and spelling curriculum which is:

Designed for dyslexic readers and those struggling with literacy skills.
Validated by scientific reading research:
- Sponsored by The National Academy of Sciences emphasizing phonemic awareness, phoneme segmentation, the alphabetic principle, decoding, reading comprehension, and fluency.
Flexible and individualized:
- Diagnostic/prescriptive teaching enables the teacher to adapt the curricular elements to the needs of each student.

Effective for all ages:
- A skilled Orton-Gillingham therapist can help students to achieve their potential and succeed in general education classes from grade school through college.
Success-oriented:
- Materials are presented in direct instruction, multisensory format. Elements are introduced sequentially with the cumulative review.
Sequential skill-building:
- Starting with the basics and advancing to highly complex language elements. Reading and spelling accuracy improves, often dramatically, as students learn to utilize letter-sound correspondences, syllable division patterns, and spelling generalizations to decode and spell words.

Integrative with reading and spelling:
- Both are reading and spelling are taught together using the visual, auditory and kinesthetic modalities simultaneously.

Here's how to get started...

CONTACT US

Tell us about your specific situation and need, and our dyslexia center director will reach out to your with answers and suggestions.

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CHAT WITH THE DYSLEXIA CENTER DIRECTOR

Our dyslexia center director will talk to you about your specific needs and create an individualized plan for your child.

After identifying specific areas of need your child will be placed with the right tutor for them.

GET STARTED WITH YOUR DYSLEXIA TUTOR

All of the dyslexia tutors at Willamette Dyslexia Center have been trained in the most up-to-date methods for teaching children with dyslexia and other reading disorders.

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