What to Expect in the Way of Remediation Time and Reading Gains

Remediation time and reading gains vary greatly from child to child. At the Read America clinic in Orlando, Florida our average time of remediation is twelve hours. The shortest time in which we've remediated a client was six hours and our longest time to remediate a client was 36 hours. Our average gains are just over two years in real word reading and four years in nonsense word reading (decoding). Needless to say we do not guarantee gains, but rather we simply report these averages. We also want you to be aware of the results obtained in a clinical study of Phono-Graphix published in the Orton Annals of Dyslexia in 1996. This study included 87 children age six to sixteen, 44% of whom were previously diagnosed as learning disabled. In a twelve hour remedial course, 98% of the children reached grade level reading. The remaining 2% needed additional time in therapy. Although there is some argument for taking longer to remediate reading difficulties, we feel strongly that parents should be involved in this decision. The twelve hour remedial course is still going strong at the Orlando, Florida Read America Clinic today.

Many member therapists all over the world mimic the Read America format described above. Others allow themselves more time, especially if they are new to Phono-Graphix. We advise that you respect these individual differences in working format among Phono-Graphix therapists. And we advise that you accept and follow your therapists recommendations regarding your child. However, we also suggest that you avoid any therapist who reports that his average remediation time is longer than 36 hours.

In addition we warn against therapists who mix and match methods or reading remediation. The results reported above from the Orton Annals of Dyslexia study were obtained with Phono-Graphix alone. Mixing methods will result in reduction in the overall effect of Phono-Graphix.

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