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You need to read the whole story about the various remedies for dyslexia but the following passage struck me as very interesting:

Developed in the 1930s by Samuel Orton and Anna Gillingham, the Orton-Gillingham method teaches those with dyslexia to read in a systematic and sequential way.

Best one-on-one or in small groups, it employs multisensory techniques – words and letters that can be physically touched and pulled apart – to help children remember language rules that typical readers may pick up without thinking. But while the approach has been in use for nearly a century, like many interventions for dyslexia, there is no scientific evidence of its efficacy.

Likewise, scientific study is lacking on the effectiveness of the Arrowsmith Program, despite a 30-year track record and 5,000 case studies, said Howard Eaton, director of the Eaton Arrowsmith School in Vancouver and Victoria.

The program attracts students from all over the world. Base tuition is close to $30,000 a year.

As with Orton-Gillingham, there has yet to be a controlled study that offers evidence that it works. A randomized controlled clinical trial is where one intervention is compared with another, or to no intervention at all, and is proven to be more effective.

This evidence is necessary before the academic community at large will take the program seriously, said Mr. Eaton, who would like to see more children, including those in public schools, access the Arrowsmith Program.

There are a number of studies now in progress on the effectiveness of the Arrowsmith Program, including some at the University of British Columbia’s Brain Behaviour Lab. Data is to be published next year

We will be eagerly awaiting the results of the studies.

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