Trident Academy News

If your child has difficulty translating their thoughts into written language, they may
have dysgraphia, a relatively common learning disability. The bad news is that it is a lifelong condition whose cause is unknown. The good news is that dysgraphia is manageable; children can learn writing strategies and produce writing that is
indistinguishable from others.

Performing even a simple arithmetic function is a complicated process that requires short and long-term memory, language, visual processing and the ability to translate a number on a page into a physical quantity. If a child’s brain is unable to handle any of these tasks, he or she will struggle to do math. This inability, at the clinical level, is called dyscalculia.

The Orton-Gillingham approach has long been considered the gold standard of education for students with dyslexia and other learning disabilities. Years of data have demonstrated that Orton-Gillingham is the best prism through which children can learn to read, write, spell, do math and develop other skills.
Orton-Gillingham overcomes language-based challenges via a structed, sequential,
multi-sensory approach, based on the understanding that children learn in a variety of ways and that no one way of teaching works for everyone.

For many parents, the moment their child is diagnosed with dyslexia is a moment of relief. Their child has been struggling in school for months, or even years, and the process of unlocking the cause was replete with pain and heartache. In many cases, the child is adept at certain intellectual exercises, but not others, and has been accused of laziness or lack of focus.

The situation: Your child has been diagnosed with dyslexia and the public school isn’t helping. They attend can’t, or won’t, or is reluctant to, or is just ill-equipped to offer the special services your child needs to catch up with their peers in reading, writing, spelling and other affected academic subjects. Either that, or your child attends a private school that has no interest in offering these services. Either way, you need help. 

Is your child struggling in school with reading writing and spelling, unable to follow
directions or remember things they are taught, disorganized and poor at managing their
time, and regularly tongue-tied when attempting to express themselves orally? Was the
child late to begin speaking and slow to use new words? Do they reverse the sounds of
words? Perhaps the child’s teachers have called him lazy, unfocused or disengaged, or
suggested she was below average in intelligence.