Multisensory Reading Clinic
100% Success Online & Onsite Orton-Gillingham Dyslexia Treatment
Expertise in Literacy Instruction with High-Powered Reading & Spelling Skills
Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Learn.Read.Succeed
The Greater Montreal area's only multisensory, intensive, systematic, explicit, cognitive, and cumulative, but flexible phonics and research-based instruction literacy clinic with 100% SUCCESS literacy intervention, remediation, and prevention
Dyslexia Specialist/Therapist, Orton-Gillingham Practitioner/Tutor, Learning Disabilities Specialist/Strategist
Structured Literacy Intervention, Remediation & Prevention for Nonreaders & Struggling Readers

"The positive impact Ruth has had on my daughter cannot be overstated. We tried for years to find support for her dyslexia but to no avail. With Ruth, we saw immediate improvements in my daughter's decoding and confidence." "Highly recommended."
- Rishi Dhir (Elephant Stone)
The Importance of the Early Years:
The Process of Learning to Read From Birth to Four Years Old
What does my child need to know to be ready to read and what can I do to help him at home?
Birth to Three-Year-Old Accomplishments
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Recognizes specific books by the cover.
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Pretends to read books.
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Understands that books are handled in particular ways.
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Enters into a book-sharing routine with primary caregivers.
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Vocalization play in the crib gives way to enjoyment, nonsense wordplay, etc.
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Labels objects in books.
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Comments on characters in books.
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Looks at the picture in a book and realizes it is a symbol for a real object.
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Listens to stories.
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Requests/commands adults to read or write.
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May begin attending to specific print such as letters in names.
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Uses increasingly purposive scribbling.
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Occasionally seems to distinguish between drawing and writing.
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Produces some letter-like forms and scribbles with some features of English writing.
Three- to Four-Year-Old Accomplishments
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Knows that alphabet letters are a special category of visual graphics that can be individually named.
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Recognizes local environmental print.
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Knows that it is the print that is read in stories.
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Understands that different text forms are used for different functions of print (e.g., list for groceries).
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Pays attention to separable and repeating sounds in language (e.g., Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater, Peter Eater).
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Uses new vocabulary and grammatical constructions in own speech.
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Understands and follows oral directions.
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Is sensitive to some sequences of events in stories.
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Shows an interest in books and reading.
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When being read a story, connects information and events to life experiences.
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Questions and comments demonstrate understanding of the literal meaning of the story being told.
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Displays reading and writing attempts, calling attention to self: "Look at my story."
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Can identify 10 alphabet letters, especially those from his own name.
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"Writes" (scribbles) message as part of playful activity.
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May begin to attend to beginning or rhyming sounds in salient words
Source: Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children, report of the National Research Council Table 2.1 Accomplishments in Reading
to be continued...
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