We have often been asked to compare the 3D Learner Program, including UFLI, with Orton Gillingham, a well-accepted systematic phonics-based program. Below is what ChatGpt offered. The only two changes we made were that we identify and address visual processing issues, and we provide parent training.
Now that the 3D Learner Program includes UFLI (University of Florida Literacy Institute), it has incorporated a structured, research-backed phonics approach alongside its visual-spatial learning strategies. This changes the comparison with Orton-Gillingham (OG) because both now include systematic phonics instruction but still differ in delivery, philosophy, and additional skill-building focus.
Why Would a Parent Choose One Over the Other?
Choose 3D Learner + UFLI If:
✅ Your child is a visual learner, a kinesthetic learner or visual-spatial learner and struggles with traditional phonics-based approaches.
✅ Your child has attention issues, processing challenges, or executive function deficits that need support.
✅ You want a faster, more immersive approach that also develops comprehension, memory, and confidence.
✅ You want phonics instruction (via UFLI) but also a whole-child approach.
✅ You want parent coaching to be the coach and advocate your child needs.
Choose Orton-Gillingham (OG) If:
✅ Your child needs explicit step-by-step phonics instruction with lots of reinforcement and repetition.
✅ Your child struggles primarily with decoding, spelling, and phonemic awareness and does well with structure.
✅ You want a long-term, proven, research-backed program focused solely on reading and spelling skills.
✅ Your child thrives in a predictable, highly structured learning environment.
Which works best for a student with dyslexia, who is a visual learner or a kinesthetic learner, with problems with reading comprehension, attention, visual processing and anxiety.
