Evaluating the Efficacy of the Orton-Gillingham Intensive Reading Intervention Program

Learning Sparks Educational Services InterNET, or LSENSNET, is the blog associated with the LSES, based in Singapore.  (At the moment, the LSES site is down, so I cannot give you more information.  The blog is up.

A recent post, Evaluating the Efficacy of the Orton-Gillingham Intensive Reading Intervention Program is quite interesting.

The research reported in this EdD thesis (Graduate School of Education, University of Western Australia, Perth) evaluated the efficacy of the Orton-Gillingham reading intervention program over a period of one year with 77 Chinese Singaporean children aged six to eight years, formally diagnosed with dyslexia. In addition, the specific types of reading errors these children committed according to their rate of reading progress were also investigated.

Following formal standardized pre-intervention testing children completed the Orton-Gillingham reading intervention program. The same data were collected on completion of the intervention. In Singapore, however, all children diagnosed with dyslexia are automatically referred to an intensive intervention program, which precludes the use of control groups for meaningful comparisons. In most cases this has prevented empirical evaluations of interventions being conducted. In the present research this difficulty was overcome through the implementation of a pre-test/post-test experimental group design incorporated into a multiple baseline research design.

I'm hoping to find more information on this provocative study, such as the author's name and access information.

update:

This author of this doctorate dissertation is Dr Noel Chia Kok Hwee, currently the only board-certified educational therapist outside the United States to be registered with the Association of Educational Therapists. It was completed in 2006 for the Ed.D degree awarded by the University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, and the author was then under the supervision of Professor Stephen Houghton, a well-known authority in attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and related disorders, who is currently the director of the Centre for Attention and Related Disorders, University of Western Australia.

Comments

[Liza]

Interesting. I too woudl like to know more about this...

[Jeremy Lauw Joo Heng]

Attention to Dr Frank Woodmore.
Perth WA.

Remember Jeremy Lauw from Singapore 1982
you came for dinner at Changi Heights Singapore near the prsent Singapore airport.

I expect to come to Perth for a week on my daughters wedding
Jeremy Lauw
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[EILEEN VICENTE]

Hi!

I am presently living in Portugal, although I am an American. I used to use the "explode the code" series" along with 15 hours of training in the orton gillingham method for reading. All of the children I tutored, there were about 150 over a period of three years, became excellent readers. Now I live in Portugual, and I would like to use this approach of teaching with Portugese speaking students. Is it possible to teach these students to read using this method? Help!!

[Liz]

Hi Eileen, thanks for the comment. I found a website that seems to be the national association in Portugal on Dyslexia. (I don't read or speak Portugese, and only read a bit of Spanish, so I'm guessing here. There seems to be a bit of overlap between sensory issues and dyslexia in their mission statement. This is not unlike the British view, which views dyslexia as less of a language / reading issue and more of a global issue.

You could contact them and see if there's any texts similar to "Explode the Code" available in Portugese.

Alternatively, you could order "Explode the Code" -- from Amazon, and translate it into Portugese.

http://www.dislexia-pt.org/

Missão

O Apoio a crianças, jovens e adultos que revistam as características de dislexia, sobredotação, défice postural e outros, bem como o apoio às respectivas famílias na área médica, psicológica e técnica, promovendo e protegendo a saúde, quer física, quer psicológica, intervindo na área educacional, formação escolar e laboral. Cooperação com ensino, em qualquer modalidade ou grau de cultura, de educação ou formação integral.

[jeremy lauw]

Frank woodmore, of previously from the
Christmas Island Casino, Can you please contact me ?
Jeremy Lauw 65-96372581
This week in Perth WA

[frustrated]

Can anyone tell me if "Dyslexia" is recognised in all states and territories of Australia as a learning "disability" rather than a learning "difficulty" as it is in Queensland where these children are provided with no support or funding and their classroom teachers are left wondering exactly how to teach them? These children fail time and time again because there is no methodology behind the practice and no staff to support intervention programs for these very needy, at risk children. Our Education department logo is: "Queensland the smart state?!" Sorry - But I don't think so!

[Helen]

I am a primary teacher in Victoria and the word 'dyslexia' is not even mentioned. There is a 'no excuses' ideology prevailing at the moment where student failure is automatically blamed on the teacher. And this 'failure' to meet benchmarks is measured through obsessional national and state testing. But to answer the above writer's question. No dyslexia is not recognised nor are teacher's trained to help dyslexics.
I am currently surfing the net to find a suitable course for me to do to assist me with tutoring. I am also an experienced Reading Recovery teacher. But Reading Recovery is not effective with dyslexic children.

[jo]

helen, did you find a course? i would love to know what you could reccommend, I have three dyslexic children. your description of the education system is spot on!