The gold standard for teaching reading — delivered by a certified specialist.
Orton-Gillingham is the proven, research-backed method behind nearly every effective dyslexia program. But a program is only as good as the person teaching it — and Michelle is certified, experienced, and devoted to tailoring it to your child.
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What is the Orton-Gillingham approach?
Orton-Gillingham (often shortened to “OG”) is a structured-literacy approach to teaching reading that’s been refined over nearly a century. Rather than hoping children absorb reading through exposure, it teaches the structure of written English directly, explicitly, and in a deliberate order — the way the brain actually learns to read.
It was originally developed for students with dyslexia, and it remains the most respected approach for them. But its principles help any child who’s struggling to decode, because it leaves nothing to chance. Most well-regarded “dyslexia tutoring programs” you’ll come across are, at their core, built on Orton-Gillingham principles.
The principles that make it effective
Multi-sensory
Sight, sound, and touch work together — your child sees a letter, says its sound, hears it, and traces it at once. Multiple pathways reinforce one another so learning sticks.
Structured & sequential
Skills are taught in a logical order, each building on the last. Nothing is assumed or skipped, so there are no quiet gaps left to widen later.
Explicit & cumulative
Every concept is taught directly and practiced to mastery, then revisited — turning the “invisible rules” of English into patterns your child can actually hold onto.
Diagnostic & personalized
This is the part programs skip: Michelle continuously reads your child and tailors each lesson to their pace, interests, and mood. The method serves the child — never the reverse.
A method is only as good as the teacher
Here’s what brochures rarely tell you: Orton-Gillingham isn’t a script to read aloud or an app to log into. It’s a responsive method that lives or dies on the practitioner’s skill to read the child and adapt in real time. The same “program” can transform one child and bore another — depending entirely on the person delivering it.
That’s the heart of how Michelle works. She brings full OG certification and a gift for noticing the exact moment a child needs a different door in — a new example, a movement break, a story pulled from whatever they love. Skill and warmth, together. It’s the opposite of the one-size-fits-all factory approach so many families have already tried.
Curious how this fits into a full plan for your child? See how OG anchors our dyslexia support and reading intervention, or read our deeper guide on what makes a dyslexia program effective.
What an Orton-Gillingham program looks like here
Sessions are one-on-one and unhurried. We begin where your child’s foundation is secure and build forward from there — phonemic awareness, letter-sound relationships, blending and decoding, then on to fluency, comprehension, spelling, and writing. Each step is practiced with hands-on, multi-sensory tools until it’s genuinely automatic.
Because it’s cumulative, progress compounds: the skills your child masters don’t fade — they become the bedrock for everything that follows. And because it’s personal, the pace is always theirs. No child is rushed past a gap or held back from a strength.
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