Project Success

Project Success, Spanish Component

What is Project Success?

Project Success is an academic and social remediation program for specific language handicapped adults with dyslexia. These students are academically able and have determination to succeed in spite of a pronounced problem in one or more of the following areas: reading, spelling, arithmetic, writing, and/or speaking. Project Success students are mainstreamed into the regular university curriculum across all four colleges: Letters and Science, Education and Human Services, Business, and Nursing.

Dr. Robert Nash, Professor of Education and the first Director of Project Success, started the pilot program in 1979 with seven students. Today there are 220 students and 62 tutors. Academic remediation has expanded to include the areas of written expression, comprehension of written and spoken language, math, and the social aspects of dyslexia. Project Success has received both national and local recognition through television, radio, and the print medium.

The goals of Project Success are:

1. That each student become academically and socially independent.

2. That each student graduate from UW Oshkosh or another postsecondary educational institution.

Help offered to reach these goals includes:

1. Direct remediation of reading, spelling, and arithmetic deficiencies through the use of an adaptation of the Orton-Gillingham technique. The technique consists of direct instruction and other instructional practices that train the students across a summer program to simultaneously use their visual, auditory and kinesthetic senses in learning how to use the language’s phonemic (sounds) structure to decode and encode, perceive, with absolute accuracy, the graphemes. Our summer schedule is a prerequisite to the term program.

2. Tutoring assistance throughout each term.

3. Understanding the effects of dyslexia upon one’s life through an organized summer program which uses group dynamics and interaction to help participants come to an understanding of the social and psychological effects of dyslexia and to help them deal with those effects.
Prospective students must send a handwritten letter expressing interest and requesting a Project Success application. Please include:
Name of applicant
Address
Telephone number
Name of parent/guardian (if applicable)
Those interested should apply no more than two years prior to desired entrance. The completed application will be placed on the active list for the desired entry date. Approximately one year before entrance, the applicant, with parent(s), will be scheduled for an assessment and personal interview. Determination of the presence and/or degree of a language handicap will be made during this interview.

For more information

Contact: The Office of Admissions
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
800 Algoma Boulevard
Oshkosh, WI 54901
Phone: 920-424-0416

Contact: Project Success-Nursing/Education 27
Phone: 920-424-1033
E-Mail: Kitz@uwosh.edu