Multisensory Reading Clinic

Ineffective literacy instruction is the root cause of students' academic failure

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Why Are So Many Students Struggling with Reading, and What Can Be Done to Fix It?

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At least one-third of students in each class are struggling to read, and some of these students have average or high intelligence. They are non-readers or poor readers and spellers, which prevents them from succeeding even in basic jobs later in life. As a result, colleges blame high schools for passing under prepared students, and high schools blame elementary schools for sending unprepared children.

 

But what is the root cause of this literacy crisis?

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It all comes down to the instruction students receive in learning to read and spell—and the problems often start in kindergarten and grade one. Kindergarten and grade one are the most critical stages of a student's academic journey. These are the years when children should build the foundations for reading and spelling correctly. If they don't master these skills properly, they risk falling behind, hating school, and eventually dropping out. Many high school dropouts trace their struggles back to these early failures! These students need explicit and systematic phonics-based instruction on how our alphabet represents sounds. This method applies to all alphabetic languages, such as English and French.

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We have a 100% success rate in teaching even severely dyslexic students to read because we specialize in literacy instruction: reading, spelling, comprehension, basic writing, and handwriting. Our approach combines content knowledge with practical skills, using direct, systematic, explicit, and structured multisensory techniques and principles first described by Dr. Samuel Orton in 1935.

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We provide everything you need to become an effective reading teacher: strategies, rules, and techniques; student workbooks for the entire school year; words in structured and fluency formats (with over 100,000 words we've developed); and clues for easily identifying children at risk of failure. We can make the impossible possible!

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