Carbondale

Advanced Yoshimoto Orton Gillingham Training 

OGI Advanced Training

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This Advanced Orton-Gillingham International training provides the knowledge that is essential for all students who have sucessfully gained decoding skills. These advanced skills enable students to effectively tackle materials in all subject areas and at all reading levels.

The required pre-requsite for this class is the Yoshimoto Basic Training (40 hours).  If you have taken a course from another organization or trainer please do not register for this class as it is the continuation of the Y - OGI basic class and as such requires previous knowledge and materails.

This class will include:

• Morphology

• Sorting & Sorting Rules

• Syllabication- advanced

• Syllable games

• Camel word building

• Consonant – le sheets

• Concept cards

• Morphology – practice and implement

• Activities and games to reinforce learning

• lesson planning

Note: All training course materials, including extensive teacher resources, are included in the cost of the course.

Meet Ron Yoshimoto, M.Ed, M.S.W., Fellow of AOGPE 

Ron is a Fellow of the Academy of Orton-Gillingham (OG) Practitioners and Educators. He has more than 30+ years’ experience in the fields of social work, education and dyslexia. He has been a social worker, counselor, teacher, educational diagnostician, principal, consultant and teacher trainer. Ron served as principal of ASSETS School, a private school for students with dyslexia and gifted children, for 18 years.  He also is director of OG therapy centers in Singapore and Hong Kong. A master trainer, he trains in Hawaii, Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Canada, and the continental U.S. He is a former president of the Hawaii Branch of International Dyslexia Association and former vice-president of the Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners.

Not only is Ron Yoshimoto the co-director of Orton Gillingham International, he is also our Master OGI Instructor. Ron has focused his expertise on developing the OG methodology for training public school teachers in the general and special education environments using OG, OG Advanced methodology, preschool literacy/numeracy, focused intervention, reading comprehension strategy (called “Connections”) and multisensory math. Ron's life has been dedicated to teaching Orton-Gillingham to both general and special education audiences for the past 30+ years.