Peter Gallo – Director and Instructor
Orton-Gillingham certified instructor with over 30 years of experience in and out of the school systems and hospitals
New York State certified school psychologist with over 20 years of experience
New York State certified school counselor
Specifically trained counselor and psychotherapist for educational purposes.
Specializing in the support for individuals of all ages with developmental dyslexia and their families.
We at the Adirondack Reading Center are parents ourselves. We understand the time to attend to our families and their needs is always in short supply. We acutely understand as well, that when serious needs arise, we want and need answers and solutions in a timely, effective manner.
To that end, we want you to know that our training in education came from the medical model to help students with all the effects of mild, moderate, severe, and profound dyslexia. This is a very important difference in treatment for dyslexia than the purely educational model.
Peter was trained and educated at the graduate level for over 2.5 years, typically twice as long as an educational master’s degree, by medial doctors who were also practicing psychiatrists and psychoanalysts. These doctors taught very exactingly how to help the student and their family, how to effectively help the student at an intellectual level, literacy level (reading, spelling, writing) and most importantly, the student’s emotional level.
Dr. Howard Rome, MD at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN ,was Peter’s academic advisor for his entire graduate school experience from 1979 -1981. Dr. Rome made it possible for Peter to learn from many other medical doctors from the Mayo Clinic including the Mayo Clinic’s head neurologist at that time, Dr. Drake Duane. Peter’s training and education also included being instructed and certified by Paula Rome, Dr. Rome’s wife and granddaughter of Samuel Orton, the pediatrician who created the Orton-Gillingham methodology.
We hope that you will read, learn and enjoy our website that has been solely created and dedicated to concretely helping individuals to become literate with dyslexia. We realize that the speed of life these days precludes reading as much as we want to or would like to for many of us, so we are providing brief concrete examples of success based on three cornerstones of our approach to remediating dyslexia.
Remember, any individual, even with the most severe forms of dyslexia, moderate or slight can learn to read if
- the best method is chosen and used over time,
- the individual and family are included, consistently in the education and the work for remediating dyslexia and the emotional behavioral characteristics are thoroughly learned about, understood and managed.
Adirondack Reading Center
Queensbury, New York
12804
518-745-7323 (READ)
adkreadingcenter@gmail.com
