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Curriculum
This is an overview of the Neuhaus Educational Center Program, called Basic Lanugage Skills, which is used to instruct dyslexia and/or reading disabled students.
Language Skills in three Books
LANGUAGE SKILLS: BOOK I
Introduces and develops the foundation for decoding and comprehension. It also introduces patterns and rules for spelling. It addresses phonemic awareness, letter recognition, the alphabetic principle, and the six syllable types; reading and spelling practices, oral language and listening comprehension; grammar and sentence writing.
Letter Recognition
Spelling Practices
Listening Comprehension
Language Skills: Book II
Is designed to automate students reading and writing skills through the introduction of additional information and through a variety of sustained practices. It addresses sound symbol correspondences and syllable division patterns; prefixes, suffixes, roots and combining forms; reading and spelling practices; rules and sentence dictation; analyzing spelling words; fluency and metacognitive strategies; grammar and paragraph writing.
Sentence Dictation
Metacognitive Strategies
Paragraph Writing
Language Skills: Book III
Reading Independence
Sentence Dictation
Grammar Composition
Daily Lesson Plan
The program I use is Basic Language Skills (Orton Gillingham). It is a systematic, sequential, intensive comprehensive literacy curriculum for use with students who are dyslexic or reading-disabled. It consist of a rotation of activities that develop the necessary skills for reading, spelling and writing. Each class meets four days a week for one hour each day. The following are included in the program:
Alphabet Awareness Activities
Handwriting (cursive)
Reading of sounds
Spelling Deck
Concept Introduction
Reading Practice
Spelling Practice
Oral Language
Simple/Complex Writing
Reading Aloud
Grade Levels
Public K-12
1st - 5th Grade
Middle/High School
What Does “Neuhaus-Trained” mean?
Online Tutoring
Neuhaus-trained refers to dyslexia specialists who have completed Neuhaus Education Center’s Dyslexia Specialist Preparation Program (DSPP). Each year about 25 – 30 teachers enter the three-year program to become a Neuhaus-trained dyslexia specialist. Most of these dyslexia specialists work with students in the school setting, but a few of them work with private students. This training qualifies an individual to teach the Basic Language Skills curriculum to students who need it. The program involves 200 classroom hours and 700 hours with students. It is to these experts that referrals are made for students who need to be taught literacy skills using the BLS curriculum.
About 5,000 teachers a year come to Neuhaus Education Center. The Center offers a variety of classes to classroom teachers who want to develop their skills in teaching reading, writing, and spelling. Some teachers take one 3-hour class and others complete many classes, but do not enroll in the DSPP. These teachers have training in certain Neuhaus curricula, but are not Neuhaus-trained dyslexia specialists..
The accredited Neuhaus Program was created exclusively to teach students with dyslexia
Class Hours
Teaching Hours
Families Served
What are Basic Language Skills
Tutors
BASIC LANGUAGE SKILLS
Is This Program Right for My Child?
After your child has been tested by a professional for learning difficulties, the evaluator will make recommendations about what remediation is needed. Basic Language Skills (BLS) would be appropriate if the recommendations included such things as: working on decoding skills; using an Orton-Gillingham-based curriculum; learning Alphabetic Phonics; using a multisensory curriculum or strategies; learning with a strong phonetic approach to reading, etc. BLS is appropriate because it integrates all the above with comprehensive instruction in decoding, handwriting, spelling, fluency, reading comprehension, composition, and vocabulary.
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