For parents and educators whose bright children can talk better than they can read or write.
Teach the Way Dyslexic Minds Learn
My story
It’s 11 PM and you’re still up, still worried, still turning it over in your head. I know that feeling. I was the kid you’re worried about.
I was told I’d never read at grade level. I read at graduate level.
I’m severely dyslexic. When Dr. Irena Hulicka — a neuropsychologist and former dean at SUNY Buffalo — tested my reading and writing, it came back at about a first-grade level.
I interned with the New York State Assembly, in a program that counted for college credit. My work there earned a recommended grade of A-minus. But the university’s political science department refused to accept my accommodations. They threw the work out.
Later I sat in on law school classes — auditing, never enrolled. On day two of contracts class, the professor — dyslexic himself — called on me and grilled me for about fifteen minutes. Then he stopped and said, “Russell, I have to stop… You couldn’t be more correct.”
Within weeks, I was reading at the graduate level. The door in was my own speech, and the one subject I couldn’t stop talking about.
Here’s what that taught me.
Your child’s brain isn’t broken. The instruction is.
And you haven’t been failing them — the method was never built for a brain like theirs.
Everyone starts dyslexic kids where they’re weakest. I start where they’re strongest: their speech.
If you write, you will read.
I went on to become a New York State Senate–funded dyslexia researcher.
Why we exist
Why Dyslexia Classes Exists
We started this because a parent shouldn’t need a special education degree to help their own kid write a sentence.
Our first job is teaching you — the parent — to teach your dyslexic child to write. Writing comes first, because writing is what opens up reading.
We also train teachers and other professionals in the same method, so it reaches classrooms too. But you’re who we built this for.
The help has to work at your kitchen table, not just in a book.
The method
How the Method Works
We start where your child is strongest: their speech, and the thing they’re obsessed with — dinosaurs, Minecraft, horses, whatever they can’t stop talking about.
Your kid talks about what they love.
That talking becomes sentences.
Sentences become paragraphs.
Paragraphs climb, one step at a time, toward real academic writing.
Writing leads. Reading follows.
Talking
→
Sentences
→
Paragraphs
→
Academic Writing
→
Reading
If you write, you will read.
The approach is grounded in the Yale neuroscience of dyslexia — the Shaywitz research.
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Who teaches
Meet Angela
Angela is a certified K–6 elementary teacher with a two-year master’s degree and about eleven years in the classroom. She’s also a homeschooling mom.
She taught this method to her own dyslexic son first — and to her STEM-minded kid too.
Every lesson is held to her standard: a mom talking to a mom, no jargon, ever.
What we believe
What We Believe
Two things guide every decision we make.
Evidence Governs the Work
In plain words: we do the right thing and fix the real problem.
The evidence decides what we say, when we move forward, and what we change when we’re wrong.
We don’t fake progress to make anyone feel better.
The Learner Owns the Meaning
In plain words: we teach the structure.
Your kid’s ideas, their reasons, their words — those stay theirs.
Nobody, not a tutor and not an AI, gets to take over their thinking and call it progress.
Where this leads
Where This Leads
The goal is options. We call it two doors.
Door One
Four-Year Academic Path
Door one is the four-year route — a bachelor’s degree, maybe on the way to a master’s.
Your kid walks in already knowing how serious academic writing works, because that’s what professors actually want.
In the AI era, a machine can draft a paragraph for anyone. It can’t know what good writing looks like in your kid’s field. It can’t fix a draft when it’s off, or carry a rough thought into real structure.
That’s what we teach.
Door Two
Two-Year / Skilled Career Path
Door two is the two-year path — advanced manufacturing, auto mechanic, electrician — today’s head-and-hands careers, with enough reading and writing to clear college English along the way.
Neither door outranks the other. Your kid chooses. Our job is keeping both open.
We work to contribute to that future for your kid. Nobody can promise it, and we won’t pretend otherwise.
Why trust us
Why You Can Trust Us
I wrote If You Write, You Will Read.
One documented case: a signed 2003 evaluation memo from Dr. Irena Hulicka records a student moving from 1.5 to 4.5 on GRE Analytical Writing guidelines — the writing scale used for graduate-school admissions.
I share it because it’s real and documented, not because it’s typical.
Reed is a real student — his family gave us permission to use his name. He went through the early steps of the program and showed measurable, documented progress over eight months on MAP, the growth test many schools use.
I’ve done more than 300 podcast interviews, and I’m one of the most-reviewed guests on PodMatch, with a 4.98 rating.
Book
If You Write, You Will Read
Documented case
2003 Dr. Irena Hulicka evaluation memo — 1.5 to 4.5 on GRE Analytical Writing guidelines
Student progress
Reed — documented MAP progress over eight months
Media
300+ podcast interviews
PodMatch
4.98 rating
Start tonight
Ready to Start?
If you want to start tonight, here’s where: Dyslexia Classes for Parents, our online community on the Skool platform, where Angela teaches parents to run this method at home, step by step.
🏆 Founding offer — spots are capped
$147 a month — fixed. It never goes up for members who join.
- The founding group is capped.
- There’s a 30-day refund if it’s not right for your family.
Every Tuesday at 8 PM, I hold office hours. Bring any question — including the hard science ones.
Come meet us. Join the community, or just show up to office hours first and see for yourself.
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