Orton Gillingham / Dyslexia Courses

Hi Lindsay,

I am adding your request to a list I am creating for the Support Team. While I can't  guarantee that this content will be added I am definitely greatful to listen to your story to see you doing everything you can to help your daughter. While I am not dyslexic I come from having my own health challenges and disability which often could affect the ability to learn so I definitely see your perspective having content that could improve others learning outcomes would help lower income schools etc. 

Should you ever have any questions I will be happy to answer them for you.

please do tjis. my 10 year-old son watches the 5th grade math videos and loves them . He is gping into 4th and is one of many 2e kids that could be helped by this.

Would love to see dyslexic courses as well as courses geared for those with dyscalculia (my 6th grader has both!).  Thank you!!

This would be a dream come true!!!! Such a great idea !!!! my daughter is gifted and dyslexic as well and so discouraged and disconnected from school because she can't get the help she needs and feels like a failure. She has so many amazing , creative ideas and stories and an advanced vocabulary but struggles with spelling the simplest of words and therefore can barely write. She had learned to read using compensatory skills and has managed to finally be on grade level, and that is all the school seems to care about. It's a non stop uphill battle to get them to understand that children with dyslexia need to be taught differently and they need to accommodate that. Until the school system changes we are on our own trying to find ways to help our children. And having classes such as these online would be an invaluable resource!!!!!!

Multi-sensory courses would help so many of our children with different disabilities. My child has Auditory Processing Disorder and ADHD. These kids are stuck in a school system geared towards one type of learning and are struggling to stay afloat. Multi-sensory teaching is not only great for those who learn differently, but can also be an asset to others that need a little push. Thank you for considering this!!

This is a wonderful idea. My 9 year old son has dyslexia. We pay for a private Barton tutor but that isn't an option for everyone. So many kids fall through the cracks as schools usually don't recognize dyslexia. In my son's case, the school kept telling me he was fine, but a private evaluation proved that he is dyslexic. 

Awesome idea! Please consider implementing this! Tutoring and intervention is so expensive. 

OG on Khan Academy is a BRILLIANT idea ! and I hope you would consult with the best online providers to do this. Go to the Orton-Gillingham Academy of Practitioners to research this idea. And also you all could have a screening app- one is being developed right now and is up for sponsorship by Dr Nadine Gaab - Boston Children's hospital. So you could have a screening app- and then an online Structured literacy program- This would be truly revolutionary. 1 in 5 of kids have some range of dyslexia. 

This would be a huge deal !!!!!! 

Adding my family to the list that would love to see this. We are lucky to be blessed enough to send our son to a school geared towards children with dyslexia but many do not get the help that they need. This would be wonderful.

I think this is a fantastic idea! I'm the parent of a neurotypical child who struggled with spelling, a 9 year old with severe dyslexia, and I'm a Barton Reading and Spelling System tutor. Neurotypical kids benefit along with struggling learners when literacy instruction is sequential, systematic and multisensory. Syllabication, decoding, spelling conventions, etymology, morphology, graphemes, structured word inquiry, vocabulary, mental imagery for comprehension....there's so much that goes into solid language arts instructions. Our public school children with learning difficulties are getting stampeded in our race to the top! While there will be some limitation in this format due to the inability to do individualized, diagnostic based instruction, all learners can benefits from improved, explicit literacy instruction!

Please add courses in Orton Gillingham to Khan Academy. There are millions of children all over this country not getting structured literacy in their public schools as most teachers are not trained in these methods. Dyslexia is one of the biggest drivers of reading failure, and research shows that dyslexic kids do best when learning to read via structured literacy (Orton Gillingham.) 95 % of all kids with reading failure can learn to read with these methods. Right now 62% of kids are below proficient in reading. Most don't have access to Orton Gillingham. Please help these families get what they need!

I know that this could be a true game changer.  I live in one of the largest school districts yet the ball is being dropped on so many dyslexic children.  This could be a game changer.  I have had to fight for each hour of instruction in school my child receives.  Outside tutoring and online programs just to work on catching up because of a dropped ball.  The ability for this to be used would be such a game changer for so many families.  I was one of the lucky ones I knew how to fight my school and could provide some outside help.  However there are so many who can not and they are falling behind at staggering rates.  There are so many children being retained because they can not read.  It should be said they are being retained because no one has taught them to read.  They truly can if you teach them.  Please  add an OG/multi-sensory instruction in reading.  Change the future for so many that other wise will  fall in the cracks.

What an awesome idea! I have a daughter in middle school who is dyslexic. In the summer, she meets with her OG tutor, but during the year, with her workload at school, and trying to get into the tutor's schedule, it has proved to be almost impossible. This would be a great option for her for added support and continued growth in her reading and spelling skills. Thanks for considering Khan Academy!

YES!  One could argue there's already quite a few online programs on the market - but I see a niche here that Khan could fill, at least initially, for the 2e crowd who were diagnosed late, and then move on to include more of the dyslexic population.  My child is 2e, and used his cognitive gifts to cope for years - such that he wasn't diagnosed early, and has already memorized many words, so he can "read".  That affects his comprehension - he has no working memory left for absorbing the content.  We need something that pulls words apart and forces kids to learn suffixes and the like - "gious", "tial" - etc. - in isolation, so they can successfully decode.  We need a program that assesses what kids know, and then adjusts.  Often the older kids are put through OG programs lock step - to ensure no important parts are missed - but it's hard to engage them initially, when they're teaching what the kids already know.  Kids run out of time and patience, and parents run out of funds.  Schools are not set up to tailor services either - if they provide them to the 2e crowd at all (so many do not - kids have to fail first to gain services - so detrimental, to the kids and society at large).  

This could be amazing! My son is in this category and has never received any support in school. Thank you for your consideration!

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to provide a quick update I have put your request in a special list for the Support staff to see. 

In the meantime I encourage everyone to keep voting up this post and providing feedback. Unfourtenly the Support team recieves allot of requests which can make posts difficult to sort through but the highest and most trending posts recieve attention.

I also wanted to Thank-you all for the positive feedback your providing often Khan Academy Help Centre does not recieve much feedback or details in the requests of content and feedback having more information on how students are benefiting from Khan Academy and the areas that can be improved on certainly help the team.

Should any of you have any questions I will be happy to help you all.

Dyselxic students are a vulnerable population offered few if any resources. Please help these students who struggle to learn and eventually only learn to dislike school. An Orton-Gillingham addition here would be be a noble challenge to your course designers.

@kat.RoseAngel You might consider some other creative way to get the support teams attention. This request will never get the amount of votes required to get attention since we're dealing with a disability that effects a small portion of potential students. :(

As a parent of 2 children with learning disabilities, in poverty level, they are not receiving the support needed to fulfill their potential. I'm doing my best homeschooling and would benefit greatly if Khan academy would put things in the works for these kids.

This would be an amazing resource for families. As a parent of several children with learning disabilities who already love Khan Academy, I know my children would love to the addition of Orton Gillingham teaching methods.

This would be a great way help with their specific challenges and to encourage them in their progress.

An OG-based program would be a huge help to dyslexic kids. Tutoring is expensive and schools often don’t treat dyslexia.

Please, there is such a need for accessible OG-type literacy courses. Students outside of population centers and students with limited financial resources have a hard time finding tutors. Every student would potentially benefit from this, and for a significant percentage it could be life-changing. For older learners who struggle with reading and writing, on-line instruction would allow them to improve skills in private, a first step towards accessing the rest of Khan Academy's on-line resources.

I strongly support this suggestion as well. In addition making sure there is an option to read the text on math problems aloud would make the site more accessible for all learners. My dyslexic kiddo does well with math but the written instructions can hold her back.

I strongly support this suggestion as well. In addition making sure there is an option to read the text on math problems aloud would make the site more accessible for all learners. My dyslexic kiddo does well with math but the written instructions can hold her back.

As a mother of a child with dyslexia who just started using Khan academy, I echo many of these requests. Please at minimum consider adding in the ability to hear word problems and consider adding in other areas to assist these diverse learners.

This would be huge a game changer for dyslexic students. Please add this support to your program.

Please consider! There is a great need for OG literacy! Unfortunately our public schools are not meeting the needs of these students.

I too would like to see a Orton gillingham literacy course considered. Kansas doesn't have a dyslexia law but is working on it with the passage of the creation of a dyslexia taskforce. Both my children have dyslexia. Our son's dyslexia journey was on the front page of the KC Star in August 2018 https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article215092575.html

Please please please add dyslexia content using OG method!

Please add OG to Khan Academy. There are many families who can not afford the hundreds of dollars required for private tutoring. Having this resource would be life-changing for so many.