CUTV News Radio welcomes back Maryann Chatfield of Welcome Dyslexia

Centereach, NY – The most common learning disability affecting young students is dyslexia. Students with dyslexia have trouble reading words, spelling words and writing or composing using words.

Maryann Chatfield is the founder of Welcome Dyslexia, a specialized private tutoring practice for struggling readers and those with dyslexia.

“They must master the same basic knowledge about language to become competent readers and writers as everyone else, but they need more help recognizing and organizing the raw material of language,” says Chatfield.

Chatfield is a certified teacher trainer in the Orton-Gillingham Approach. Orton-Gillingham is based on the simultaneous use of multiple senses. Using auditory, visual, and kinesthetic elements, skills are developed and reinforced by having the student listen, speak, read and write.

“These phonetic concepts work and work so much better than what teachers use now,” says Chatfield. “There's something that happens when you have several senses working simultaneously,” says Chatfield. “You're seeing, you're hearing, you're feeling the word with your lips. If you put all these things together, the information goes to your brain in a stronger signal and will be more readily accessible.”

Chatfield is also the author of The Ultimate Guide to Teaching Phonics.

“The way those concepts are taught is so much more efficient than what teachers have used until now,” says Chatfield. “There's something that happens when you have several senses working simultaneously. The information goes into your brain as a stronger signal. When you go to retrieve that information, it will be more readily accessible.”

For more information on Maryann Chatfield, visit www.welcomedyslexia.com.