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Myrna McCulloch's America's Spelling & Reading with Riggs phonics, spelling & "integrated" language arts teaching aids adapt and extend Romalda Spalding's The Writing Road to Reading This phonetic system teaches letter formation and the 70 "Orton" phonograms which are the commonly-used correct English spelling patterns. The Riggs Institute traces its roots to the methods of Dr. Samuel T. Orton. Oma Riggs, for whom the institute is named, studied under Romalda Spalding, a student of Dr. Orton's who used his multi-sensory methodology when she authored The Writing Road to Reading (published in 1957). Oma Riggs used the Spalding method during 17 years of teaching children and teachers. She trained Myrna McCulloch in 1976 and Mrs. McCulloch, in turn, founded the Riggs Institute for the specific purpose of making others aware of the potential benefits of the Spalding method as adapted and extended by the Riggs Institute. The Riggs foundational skills method uses MULTI-SENSORY, DIRECT & SOCRATIC INSTRUCTION that quickly establishes the necessary auditory, verbal, visual and motor developmental sub-skills to both accelerate the learning process and prevent or correct learning disorders.