Greenhills Orton-Gillingham Literacy

Greenhills School, Inc., is for students with average to above average intelligence who have a diagnosis of developmental dyslexia or a Specific Language Learning Disability. Greenhills was founded in July of 1990 to meet a longstanding need in this region for a non-profit corporation with programs for teaching and teacher training for dyslexic individuals. Each dyslexic individual is required to have a psycho-educational evaluation by a licensed psychologist given within the last three years. Greenhills will screen students whose parents suspect may be dyslexic for a $100 fee, if they have not had public school or private specific learning disability testing.

Students attend Greenhills from surrounding counties within an hour's commute, including Davidson, Rowan, Iredell, Stokes, Guilford, Catawba, Davie, Surry, and Yadkin in addition to Forsyth. Greenhills is a member of the North Carolina Branch of the International Dyslexia Association.

Our reason for being is LITERACY. Our students have either not learned to read, or read at a level many years below grade level, many despite receiving L.D. services. We can teach these students to read close to or above grade level and at the level of their abstract thinking ability. However, their speed of reading is usually slower than that of a student who never had a reading problem.

The academic program is especially designed to use the teaching techniques that Dr. Samuel T. Orton and his colleagues developed for intelligent students with dyslexia and related language learning disabilities. His wife, Mrs. June L. Orton, used these teaching techniques at The Orton Reading Center in Winston-Salem for over twenty years.