4.11 Orton-Gillingham Academy Founding Fellow, Helaine Schupack
To follow up on our interview with Tiffany Solomon in episode 10, we brought her back with another special guest, Helaine Schupack. Helaine has played an instrumental role in Tiffany’s life as she navigated her education with dyslexia.
Helaine Schupack is one of the founding Fellows of the Orton-Gillingham Academy (OGA), which was founded in 1995 and now has over 3,800 members. Her mission to help individuals with dyslexia receive the interventions they need to thrive eventually expanded to her joining forces with the Orton Society (now the International Dyslexia Association) when it formed its Teacher Training Initiative. She’s been the recipient of the Massachusetts Branch of the International Dyslexia Association’s Alice Garside award.
Helaine is one of Rhode Island’s abiding champions in the field of dyslexia and was awarded the first Decoding Dyslexia Legacy Award.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Orton-Gillingham Academy
- Decoding Dyslexia Rhode Island
- Orton-Gillingham Founding Fellows
- Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz M.D.
- Teaching to Read: Historically Considered by Mitford M. Mathews
- Reversals: A Personal Account of Victory over Dyslexia by Eileen M. Simpson
- Dyslexia over the Lifespan: A Fifty-Five Year Longitudinal Study by M. Rawson
- Dyslexics of Brown (limited print)
- 1.5 How Dr. Samuel Orton and Anna Gillingham’s Work Support Social-Emotional Learning
- 1.6 The Orton Prescription and the Connection to Social-Emotional Learning
- 2.6 Q&A About OG
- 4.4 The Foundational Principles of Orton-Gillingham (part 1)
- 4.5 The Foundational Principles of Orton-Gillingham (part 2)
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