Instructor: Heather Lufkin, Fellow, Orton-Gillingham Academy
2024-2025 Dates: Beginning August 23, 2024 through June 4, 2025

Trainees will teach reading and spelling skills using the Orton-Gillingham approach, a structured alphabetic-phonetic system that employs visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic pathways to learning. Reading and spelling are treated as interacting disciplines. Using the Orton-Gillingham approach, trainees will learn to individualize tutoring sessions with students. Throughout the course, trainees will attend a weekly two-hour coursework seminar.

The Academic Year Course provides 90 hours of coursework and approximately 260 hours of supervised practicum, totaling approximately 350 contact hours. The course is nationally accredited by the Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators (AOGPE).

This course fulfills the Academy’s 60-hour coursework requirement for Associate Level Certification. The additional 30 hours of coursework include supplementary Orton-Gillingham theory and practice, and seminars on assessment giving an overview of the new WISC-V, as well as other curriculum-based assessment tools. Trainees will also be introduced to two programs developed at the Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University: RAVE-O and Developing Motivational Strategies in Students. The course includes a seminar on the current brain research that informs the Carroll School Targeted Cognitive Intervention Program.

Tuition Fee: $5,600

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