First thanks for all the advice.I have a nine year old dyslexic son.Despite his intelligence he can hardly read.After a long battle I got somewhere. Finally the school admitted today that my son needs another approach. They are looking for a Wilson tutor to come in while he is at school.He will have Wilson in September at the school he goes to next year.What I need to decide between is a private tutor or to try Reading Reflex or the Sonday System at home.I also need to decide if I hire a private tutor should I go with Orton Gillingham or Wilson program?Does anyone know anything about these reading programs? If he has Wilson at school would it be confusing to use something else with it?Any advice would be appreciated.Feel free to e-mail me [email protected]
Thank you,
Rachel
My ADHD dd is “moderately dyslexic”.
Reading Reflex, Wilson are all different brands of the Orton Gillingham method. The International Dyslexia Organization (interdys.org?) site may tell you more. We employed an Orton G. reading tutor for her privately, even after the school told us they would do Orton with her, but didn’t write it in her IEP. At the time, we did it for “extra insurance” and in retrospect, while expensive, this was some of the best money we ever spent. They never did an OG program with her in school and I am a bit paranoid/burned in my dealings with the school then and now. She is soaring in reading now, while the other subjects are still a bit behind and a bit of a struggle for her. DD did Recipe for Reading and again it was an Orton Gillingham method. OG breaks down written language into its 47 or so phonemic sounds (letter and their sounds combinations). Supposedly, the difference in the OG programs is the order in which they learn the phonemic sounds and price, but the end result should be the same.
I don’t know for sure if doing two seperate OG methods at the same time would confuse your child, but I would suspect not. I had a similar question about would the phonics/whole language approach used at her school confuse her OG lessons. I was told no it wouldn’t by both the school and tutor, and per the tutor, the school lessons would underscore or reinforce the OG, but again it’s slightly different scenario and I’m not an expert, just a slightly informed parent.
Good luck.