The Kingston Programme
"TEACHING READING THROUGH SPELLING"
FOR SPECIFIC LEARNING DIFFICULTIES
by Cowdery, Low, Morse, McMahon, Montgomery and Prince

This is a complete course, combining theory and practice, based on years of experience at the Kingston Reading Centre. It is a carefully structured multisensory programme and is widely used to give guidance to teachers who teach dyslexic pupils and other pupils with reading, spelling and writing difficulties. It is a total package, meeting the professional needs of such teachers in a practical manner. It is multisensory, structured, sequential, cumulative and thorough and meets the guidelines of the British Dyslexia Association. 

Lucy Cowdery, Paula Morse and Mary Prince were trained by Kathleen Hickey. The Programme is based upon the original Orton-Gillingham-Stillman-Childs method and is influenced by the work of Cox and Waites, but incorporates more in the way of systematic and cumulative structure from the authors’ experience with their pupils at the Kingston Reading Centre. 

This programme shows how a hierarchy of meta-linguistic skills may be built up from nothing, how the teaching of reading and spelling can be responsive rather than ritual, and how the programme may be entered at any stage or level.  It is a psycholinguistic remedial training programme which not only incorporates phonics, but also articulation and speech training, analysis of the structure of the language, the development of syntactic and semantic knowledge and the use of the knowledge of the historical roots of the language.
                                                         

£34.50 for the CDROM containing set of five books 
plus £1 for U.K. mainland post & packing.

The CDROM contains PDF versions of the following books, the contents of which can be viewed and printed using the free program Acrobat Reader, a copy of which is included on the CD. For information about each book, please visit 'book contents' above.