Anna Gillingham (1878–1963) was an educator and psychologist, known for her contributions to the Orton-Gillingham method for teaching children with dyslexia how to read.
She spent much of her childhood living on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where her father was the local Indian agent.
[5] With Bessie Stillman, she wrote what has become the Orton–Gillingham manual: Remedial Training for Children with Specific Disability in Reading, Spelling and Penmanship.
Along with the help of Stillman, Gillingham developed a "sequential, alphabetic-phonetic multisensory program" as a tool with which students could easily create meaningful syllables.
Alongside the practicing and development of her techniques, Gillingham began working with Dr. Henry Goddard – known for his adaptation and translation of the French Simon and Binet tests for use in determining superior intelligence, thus becoming the first school psychologist in the country.