For those students with dyslexia or similar serious reading/language specific differences, Trinity School offers Alphabetic Phonics.  Alphabetic Phonics is an intense academic therapeutic approach offered in small groups no larger than 3 students or offered individually.  Alphabetic Phonics is offered for a fee in addition to tuition.

The Orton-Gillingham Alphabetic Phonics program is a comprehensive, sequential curriculum of multisensory instruction in reading, writing, and spelling.  Instruction focuses on:

* Phonemic awareness
* A structured, intensive, phonetic approach to teaching reading that
emphasizes word attack skills, accuracy and fluency, and linguistic patterns
* Remediation of handwriting difficulties
* A multisensory process-oriented approach to teaching spelling that emphasizes phonological awareness, basic sound/symbol relationships, spelling generalizations for base words, spelling formulas for derivatives
* Listening comprehension skills that lead to reading comprehension
* Multisensory approach to grammar, semantics, and syntax
* Sequential, multisensory strategies

Information is presented to the student through a process of introduction, practice, and review using three structured teaching methods: multisensory techniques, guided student discovery, and regularly scheduled review. The program also provides materials for evaluating and documenting students' progress and for planning and individualizing lessons and practice activities. Mastery of all material enables students to read and spell 85% of the most frequently used, phonetically regular English words.