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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Be careful with the certifications.  You want training/ experience tailored to the challenge you are trying to address.  A Fellow of the Orton Gillingham Academy  can charge between $75-200 an hour depending on the location.

Public school reading specialists are often poorly trained.[/quote]
Actually the opposite is true. It's the sham programs  that are the rip offs. The certified reading specialists understand the nuanced and varied neurological complexities of reading  and  already know  prescriptive scripted programs  work  for no one. [/quote]

New poster here. This has NOT been our experience or the experience of most parents we know in the dyslexia community. Public school reading specialists are often poorly trained and do not understand dyslexia at all. They often use the "whole language" method that became popular in the 1980's which includes just memorizing lots of sight words. Memorization works great for some kids but is a disaster for others. Look for a specialist who has completed a rigorous Orton Gillingham based training reading program. We went through ASDEC in Rockville, MD, to find ours. I think we paid around $85 an hour but it was incredibly effective. [/quote]

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