Bessie Whitmore Stillman (1871-1947) was an educator and contributor to the Orton-Gillingham teaching method for students with disabilities in reading.
Stillman was a teacher at the Ethical Culture School in New York when she met Anna Gillingham.
[1] She began collaborating to further develop the teaching procedures of Samuel Orton, devised to help readers with dyslexia.
[2] Gillingham and Stillman completed a remedial program called "The Alphabetic Method," which taught phonemes, morphemes and spelling rules through multisensory techniques.
[4] During this time (1935-1937) Stillman worked and studied with Gillingham at the Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii.