Orton-Gillingham
(OG) Training
To make best-in-class
literacy instruction accessible to all.
Implementation Support
To help support educators who are committed to providing the very best in literacy education and ensure dyslexic students reach their full potential.
Community Events
Free, accessible events that offer exceptional content and meaningful fellowship.
Empowering the
Dyslexic Community
RCF is committed to unifying and empowering the diverse global community on the dyslexia journey.

Our Story, Mission & Vision
Our Mission & Vision: RCF’s mission is to make an immediate meaningful impact by empowering the dyslexic community and ending the global literacy crisis by ensuring Orton-Gillingham training is financially and geographically accessible to all while also providing exceptional content and a meaningful community to those on the dyslexia journey. At RCF, we envision a world where we have fundamentally changed the education system so that all dyslexic students, as well as their peers, are truly literate and empowered to learn, identify their inherent strengths and reach their fullest potential.


Community Education Events

Dyslexia & Dysgraphic Simulation
September 1st, 2022

Q&A with a Child Psychiatrist: ADHD and Learning Differences with Dr. Brady Bradshaw
May 9th, 2022

Dean Bragonier:
Founder & Executive Dyslexic NoticeAbility Inc.
October 24, 2020 @ Inaugural Dyslexia Gala: The Artists

Kelli Suding:
Assistive Technology Supports for Students with Dyslexia
January 29th, 2020 @ The Christ School

Elisheva Schwartz from
The Dyslexia Quest Podcast
April 22nd, 2020 @ The Christ School

Jonathan Mooney:
Normal Sucks Book Tour
October 16th, 2019 @ The Christ School
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Why RCF?
The REED (Reading Education Endowment for Dyslexia) Charitable Foundation (RCF) is committed to actively pursuing our mission to immediately make meaningful impact for dyslexic students and the global literacy crisis by hosting affordable and geographically accessible Orton-Gillingham (OG) training for teachers, professionals and parents and providing scholarships for teachers in OG training when possible; providing essential implementation support and Teacher University sessions after training to ensure teachers feel supported and are proficient in providing OG instruction in the classroom; creating and hosting free community education events to provide exceptional content of best practices in dyslexia and general literacy education while facilitating meaningful fellowship for families impacted by dyslexia; and raising awareness about dyslexia and the literacy crisis and creating events with a focus on highlighting the inherent gifts that come with neurodiversity.
What is Dyslexia?
According to the International Dyslexia Association, dyslexia is “a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the phonological component of language that is often unexpected in relation to other cognitive abilities and the provision of effective classroom instruction. Secondary consequences may include problems in reading comprehension and reduced reading experience that can impede growth of vocabulary and background knowledge.”
What is the Orton-Gillingham Approach?
According to the Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators, the Orton-Gillingham Approach (also known as “OG”) is a direct, explicit, multi sensory, structured, sequential, diagnostic and prescriptive way to teach literacy when reading, writing and spelling does not come easily to individuals, such as those with dyslexia. To learn more about OG, please visit the Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators website.
To ensure that the standards set by the Academy of Orton Gillingham are being upheld, all training RCF hosts are overseen by an OGA Fellow or Fellow-in-Training.
https://www.ortonacademy.org/
What are Dyslexic Strengths?
While dyslexia does create difficulty in learning how to read, write and spell – dyslexia also comes with some incredible strengths. While supporting reading remediation for dyslexic students is extremely important – equally important are identifying and acknowledging a dyslexic child’s strengths. Some commonly recognized dyslexic strengths include, but are not limited to:
- strong memory for stories
- excellent problem solving skills
- tremendous spatial reasoning (three-dimensional thinkers)
- incredibly creative and imaginative
- high levels of empathy
- brilliant conversationalists
- excellent big-picture thinkers
- great at connections between seemingly unrelated things
- excellent abstract thinkers
- gifted at thinking “outside the box”
- strong critical thinkers
- uniquely observant
Common professions of successful dyslexics include: entrepreneurship, innovation, science, technology, sports, music, architecture, construction, design, advertising, culinary arts, marketing, artists, lawyers, film makers, writing, acting, and engineering – just to name a few. Dyslexics make up some of the world’s greatest innovators, entrepreneurs, celebrities and millionaires and billionaires. With the proper academic and emotional support – the sky is truly the limit for dyslexic kiddos.
What is “Structured Literacy”?
The International Dyslexia Association explains that Structured Literacy is considered the most effective approach to teach reading, writing and spelling to students who experience unusual difficulty learning to read and spell words, including dyslexic students. The term includes teaching students phoneme awareness (individual speech sounds that make up words), sound-symbol correspondence, patterns and conventions of print, morphology (the meaning of language), syntax (system for ordering words in sentences so meaning is communicated) and semantics (meaning). Because OG is considered a form of Structured Literacy, Structured Literacy also follows the same principles and methods of OG, including: explicit, systematic, cumulative, multi-sensory, diagnostic and responsive instruction.
What is meant by the term the “science of reading”?
The National Council on Teacher Quality refers to the science of reading as explicit, systematic instruction that encompasses all five essential components of early reading instruction, which are: (1) phonemic awareness, (2) phonics, (3) fluency, (4) vocabulary and (5) reading comprehension.


Books Recommended for Children with Dyslexia

Our Team
RFC Helps
2022
Raised Over $1,000,000
To train and support teachers in OG
Sponsored 2 FREE Community Education Events
Featuring: Dr. Brady Bradshaw & starting the 2022-2023 school year with a dyslexia & dysgraphia simulation.
Trained 561 Teachers
Teachers trained in OG
Created 4 OG Model Schools
Schools created in Orange County Public Schools
2021
Raised Over $500,000
Through RCF’s Dyslexia Experience & Gala: The Culinary Artists
Sponsored FREE Community Education Events
Featuring: Dr. Shawn Anthony Robinson “Doctor Dyslexia Dude” and Dr. Ned Hallowell
Trained 448 Teachers
In Orton-Gillingham from 22 different states
2020
Sponsored FREE
Community Education Events featuring Kelli Suding, PATINS Project, Specialist in Assistive Technology and Elisheva Schwartz, Creator of The Dyslexia Quest Podcast
Raised Over $220,000
Through RCF’s Inaugural Dyslexia Experience & Gala: The Artists
Sending 496
Teachers to Orton-Gillingham Training in January 2021
2019
Sponsored FREE
Community Education Event
Featuring Jonathan Mooney,
Author of Normal Sucks
Raised Funds
Through the HighLIGHT
Dyslexia Fundraiser
Provided 10
Classroom Educator Scholarships
through the Academy of Orton-Gillingham
Practitioners and Educators