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GRACEPOINT School for dyslexic learners announced today their accreditation received for the school’s Orton-Gillingham program by the AOGPE (Academy of Orton Gillingham Practitioners and Educators). The Orton–Gillingham Approach is a direct, explicit, multisensory, structured, sequential, diagnostic, and prescriptive way to teach literacy when reading, writing, and spelling does not come easily to individuals, such as those with dyslexia. All academic teachers at GRACEPOINT are trained as Orton-Gillingham Classroom Educators. Training involves methods to teach and Enremediate all areas of literacy, not just reading and spelling and to provide this instruction one-on-one, in a classroom, or with any size group.
Students at GRACEPOINT receive 90 minutes of explicit Orton-Gillingham reading instruction each day.
GRACEPOINT’s instructional program is now 1 of only 16 programs in the nation to receive this accreditation.
“To have your OG instruction endorsed by the Academy is such a high honor,” shared Joy Wood, GRACEPOINT Head of School. “I am very proud of the teachers and staff at GRACEPOINT that are so dedicated to restoring hope to the brilliant dyslexic minds we serve each day. There is incredible reward in seeing realize they are not ”
This news comes in the wake of many recent initiatives and accomplishments of the company, including:
- Enrollment growth from 4 to 124 students since the school’s beginning in 2012
- Accreditation by the SAIS (Southern Association of Independent Schools)
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