Proven Teaching Methods for Students with Learning Disabilities.
The Wilson Reading System and the Orton-Gillingham method are two of the most highly regarded and successful reading instruction methodologies, especially for students with dyslexia and other learning disabilities. Both are explicit, systematic, structured literacy approaches that focus on direct, systematic teaching of the reading and language basics. The Orton-Gillingham method was formulated during the 1930s by neuropsychiatrist Samuel Orton and teacher Anna Gillingham. It innovated the multisensory teaching of reading, stimulating visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile pathways at the same time. The method is not a program but a collection of principles that has impacted numerous reading programs, of which Wilson is one. The Wilson Reading System, developed by Barbara Wilson in the 1980s, is an Orton-Gillingham-based complete curriculum. It is a systematic, sequential 12-step program that starts with phoneme segmentation and moves through increasingly sophisticated language con...