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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

As a reading specialist of nearly  37 years, and a college  professor,  trainer of teachers,  and literacy specialist for all ages in all settings, I can unequivocally say that  you are  wrong.  You basically states that  reading specialists do not  understand dyslexia,  and that statement alone should  give everyone pause. What do you think everyone is doing in grad school? Perhaps it is you that doesn't understand it. And, I can assure you that there is not one packaged program  that "cures" dyslexia.  Sorry!

I'm involved in curriculum development for many public settings, and no, no one uses whole language as a reading tool in early instruction. The term was being used in the 1970s, and frankly, it has no real meaning in any program context today. No early reading program has a whole language instructional goal. This is propaganda that commercial companies use, not unlike the right wing rhetoric about CRT, to influence parents, knowing lay people don't have anybackground and can get hung up on terms. This has been going on for decades. And another news flash: developmental optometry- also rubbish.

Spend your $$ as you wish.  I can direct you to a number  of neighborhood MLMs, too, if you are interested.  [/quote]

NP.  [b]Schools focus on memorizing sight words/high frequency words[/b] (does it really matter if it's Dolch or Fry?), promote guessing and do not teach phonics adequately.

~tutor, 20+ years, frequently hired to undo the mistakes done in early public school instruction[/quote]

If you know ANYTHING about OG/ARE OG trained, what exactly are heart words?

Cheat answer: words that are irregular and cannot be sounded out and appear often in sentences.  Many/most of these heart words are High frequency words.

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