Unlike supplemental tutoring programs, Horizon Academy is designed exclusively for students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, and/or dyscalculia.
Orton-Gillingham Approach
Specialized Expertise & Certification
Why Training Matters
Rather than reduce education for children with dyslexia to supplemental instruction, Horizon Academy offers full-day schooling for children with language-based learning disabilities. Gabi Guillory Welsh is our Fellow of Record for the Orton-Gillingham Approach, leading our faculty in understanding how students with dyslexia learn best. Together, they provide individualized support and help each child thrive academically and emotionally.
Proven Approaches, High Standards
Teachers customize lessons based on each student’s demonstrated strengths and learning gaps to better support students in small group settings.
Our faculty supports students during the school year, the Summer Academic Program, and the Jump Start Summer Program, promoting continuity and trust.
Students learn in an environment where they feel understood, supported, and encouraged to find confidence in their academics.
Reach Out to Horizon Academy
Our faculty are ready to help your child start training their superpower. Get in touch with our team, and we can begin the assessment and enrollment process.
Frequently Asked Questions
Horizon Academy prioritizes relationship-based learning, encouraging students to participate without fear of embarrassment or comparison. Teachers celebrate growth, effort, and persistence, helping students be confident while developing stronger self-advocacy skills and a positive relationship with learning.
Accommodations are built into the Horizon Academy approach. Every student receives flexible instructional support, such as guided note-taking, verbal processing opportunities, visual supports, movement-based learning activities, and adjusted pacing. These strategies help all students remain engaged and reduce unnecessary barriers to learning.
Families receive ongoing communication, progress updates, and opportunities to better understand how their child learns. Horizon Academy values collaboration and helps families gain practical insight into how they can support their child’s growth, independence, and confidence at home.
In addition, we offer seminars throughout the year to help parents understand language-based learning disabilities better. This includes lectures from experts in the study of dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia, plus our learning disability simulations.
At Horizon Academy, we’ve designed every aspect of the educational experience around how students with dyslexia learn best. Students don’t need to be pulled out for additional educational support. Instead, our highly qualified faculty design instruction with their needs in mind from the start.
Teachers monitor academic progress, classroom participation, organization, and confidence levels. As students grow, educators intentionally provide opportunities for independent thinking, collaborative leadership, and age-appropriate responsibility that encourage long-term academic and personal success.
Specialized training equips teachers to recognize patterns in student learning and respond with proven instructional methods. Our educators are experts in the Orton-Gillingham Approach, which supports decoding, fluency, comprehension, and long-term literacy development.
Our faculty encourages students to build resilience, critical thinking, organization, collaboration, and communication skills. Classroom experiences strengthen independence while helping students recognize and build upon their individual strengths and talents.
Parents should look for evidence of specialized faculty, research-based literacy instruction, individualized learning support, and a school culture that understands students with dyslexia. A strong foundation with certain methodologies, such as the Orton-Gillingham Approach, helps students receive consistent, informed, and effective instruction.
