OG Works
OG Works
Orton-Gillingham Tutors - Successful Instruction Since 2012
Orton-Gillingham Tutors - Successful Instruction Since 2012
Providing remedial reading, writing and spelling instruction through Orton-Gillingham Accredited Tutors
Currently hired by many happy families and five public school systems.
*** Successfully transitioned all students to on-line teaching with great results! ***
*** Successfully transitioned all students to on-line teaching with great results! ***
...everyone deserves a chance to read
...everyone deserves a chance to read
Welcome to OG Works!
Orton-Gillingham is the premier approach for teaching reading, spelling and penmanship to students with specific language-based learning disabilities, including dyslexia. This approach is also effective for people struggling with executive functioning skills such as automatic retrieval, working memory, processing speed, organization, categorizing, attention challenges and more.
Orton-Gillingham is the leader in this specialized instruction. It was the lifetime work of Dr. Samuel Orton, that proved definitively that people with specific language disabilities were not permanently disabled, and could actually succeed quite well, if the proper interventions were applied consistently.
Dr. Orton worked closely with teachers, Anna Gillingham and Betsy Stillman, and they devised the teaching instruction that supported his discoveries. The precision of this work is so involved that it literally took their adult lifetimes to develop and refine. It is through this mult-sensory, structured and sequential application that new
neuropathways to the brain are stimulated to grow in the language center of the brain. In addition, the approach involves daily scaffolding as well as a diagnostic and prescriptive element.
The ability of the teacher to properly diagnose areas of strength and weakness, and devise subsequent lessons that solidify the strengths, while addressing the weaknesses, is what separates OG from any other form of remedial reading and spelling instruction. It is this customized approach to teaching that meets the individuals' learning needs at the time their brain is ready to receive them. The resulting outcome is a solid development of language skills without gaps and inconsistencies in the learning.
OG has proven successful with children, teens, adults and ESL students. OG has been the foundation for many recent reading programs. However, none has proven to be as comprehensive, diagnostic and prescriptive. Most will market themselves as "OG based", literally identifying OG as the premier standard. While these programs have usually adopted some combination of the structured/sequential/multi-sensory portions of this approach, most eliminate the diagnostic and prescriptive applications, as the lesson planning is so time-consuming. Ironically, it is this diagnostic approach that allows the teacher to work at the student's pace of learning, not the pace set by a predefined workbook.