Dr. Walter Dunson,
Ph.D.
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Educational Consulting; Academic Language Therapy Expert

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- Dyslexia, Morphology, Phonology, Articulation, Visual Processing, Auditory Processing
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- Affiliation
- International Dyslexia Association, Learning Disabilities Association of America
Dr. Walter E. Dunson is an academic language therapist who has more than twenty years of experience working with students with dyslexia and other language-based learning differences in one-on-one and small group tutorials. He is recognized for his knowledge of learning disabilities, dyslexia, and English phonology and morphology.
Dr. Dunson received extensive Orton-Gillingham training and was mentored through a 2760-hour practicum by a founding Fellow in the Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators and has received additional training in: Lindamood-Bell's Phoneme Sequencing Program for Reading, Spelling, and Speech; Visualizing and Verbalizing Program of Concept Imagery for Comprehension and Thinking; Seeing Stars Program of Symbol Imagery for Sight Words, Reading, Phonemic Awareness, and Spelling; and Dr. Jane Fell Greene's Language! Program, a curriculum for at-risk and ESL students in grades K-12 and includes components for writing, spelling, reading, grammar, and vocabulary.
Dr. Dunson is a dyslexia researcher, former member of the Board of Directors of the International Dyslexia Association (Houston Branch), and the author of four books: School Success for Students with Dyslexia and Other Reading Difficulties, The English Code: A Forensic Approach to Mastering the Language, The English Code: Student's Manual, and The English Code: Grammar Directory.
Dr. Dunson is a member of the Weinfeld Education Group, LLC, a team of multidisciplinary experts, based in Maryland, who specialize in special needs advocacy, assessment, training, and related student services.
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The Development of Reading Skills
The development of reading skills obviously serves as the gateway to the world of printed information. Most, if not all, of the informal education that we received is accomplished without the use of printed material. Historically, the oral tradition was the foundation of the informal education ...
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The Instructional Ideal
The ideal form of instruction would be one where the student feels a sense of empowerment over the learning process. There are many roads which may lead to the development of the sense of educational empowerment, but the key is to create the educationally conducive environment that provides ...
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