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Reading still isn't clicking? Let's find the solution.
Welcome to Dyslexia Rescue®!
Private, individualized reading intervention, four days per week, with our Structured Literacy expert—a dual-certified, graduate-school-trained specialist • more than 25 years of experience. Scottsdale • Zoom
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Learn to help your own child for just $200 per month in our parent + child online course! First month–just $1.
Does This Sound Like Your Family's Experience?
You've Already Tried "More Reading."
You've Already Tried "More Reading."
She guesses words.
She uses pictures/context instead of decoding.
You've Given It "More Time."
You've Already Tried "More Reading."
He forgets words he knew yesterday.
Reading never seems to become automatic.
She's Already Had School-Based Intervention Services.
She's Already Had School-Based Intervention Services.
She struggles to sound out unfamiliar words.
Even simple words can stop her.
You've Had a Neuropsychological Evaluation Too.
She's Already Had School-Based Intervention Services.
He reads slowly and laboriously.
Reading takes far more effort than it should.
She's Worked With a Reading Specialist at School for Years.
Spelling, writing and homework are a constant struggle.
Words rarely look the way they sound.
You've tried private tutors, private reading programs and private schools. Nothing works.
Reading ends in frustration, exhaustion and defeat.
Confidence is dropping along with progress.
Tutors, Reading Programs & Expertise Are Not the Same Thing
The Difference in Results Can Be Astounding
When your child is struggling to read, it can be difficult to know what kind of help they actually need. Tutoring, a reading program and expert reading intervention are three very different things.
Tutoring helps a child get through today. Intervention changes what they can do for a lifetime.
A tutor typically sits beside your child and helps them manage the work they are struggling with right now — tonight’s reading assignment, this week’s spelling words or tomorrow’s test.
That support may help your child survive school.
But survival is not the same as success, which, for many, comes only through expert-lead intensive intervention.
If your child has an underlying reading difficulty, helping them complete today's homework does not change their future. It does not identify why reading is difficult. It does not systematically rebuild the skills that failed to develop. And it does not necessarily move your child toward becoming an independent reader who no longer needs someone sitting beside them. It does not set them up for lifelong success.
The goal of effective reading intervention should be much bigger:
Find out why the child is struggling. Teach what is missing. Build the underlying reading system. And give that child the skills to read, write, study and succeed independently — now and for the rest of their life.
But a reading program alone isn't enough either.
Many reading programs are designed so that someone can complete a relatively short training and then follow a prescribed sequence or script.
A program can provide structure. It cannot provide expertise.
Knowing how to deliver a program is very different from understanding why a particular child is struggling, what that child's brain needs in order to learn and how the English language needs to be taught so that reading finally makes sense.
The program is a tool. The expertise is knowing what to do with it.
I have spent more than 25 years developing expertise at the intersection of psychology, neuropsychology, dyslexia, structured literacy and the structure of the English language.
My background includes a degree in psychology, extensive graduate-level training, internship and supervised practice in Orton-Gillingham, graduate-level Reading Recovery training and certification and decades of direct work teaching hundreds of struggling readers. I was awarded a presidential appointment as a federal-level school reformer due to my startlingly successful innovations in reading program design and implementation in the public school system. And I know dyslexia personally: I was a struggling reader myself and was taught by an Orton-Gillingham practitioner as a child.
Over 27 years, I have brought those disciplines together to do something a tutor or a script cannot do: observe how an individual child is processing language, identify where the learning is breaking down and change the instruction accordingly.
If a child doesn't respond as expected, I don't simply move to the next page or repeat the same lesson.
I figure out why.
Is the child having difficulty holding sounds in working memory? Hearing the internal structure of words? Connecting sounds to letters? Recognizing spelling patterns? Retrieving previously learned information? Understanding meaningful word parts? Generalizing a skill into actual reading and writing? Are attention or executive-function difficulties interfering with learning?
The answer determines what I teach next and how I teach it.
That is why families sometimes come to me after years of tutoring or reading intervention and are stunned by how little their child has actually learned.
Time spent getting help is not the same as receiving effective intervention.
If you want your child to become an independent reader, set up for a lifetime of greater success, don't just look for someone who can deliver a scripted reading program.
Look for direct access to a Structured Literacy expert who has the depth of expertise necessary to understand your child, understand the English language and know how to bring those two extraordinarily complex systems together.
That's what Dyslexia Rescue does.
~Diana Finch, M.Ed., M.Sc., Founder of Dyslexia Rescue®
Private, Individualized Services by Dyslexia Rescue
Private Reading Lessons
Private One-to-One Literacy Intervention
Individualized, intensive literacy intervention for children with dyslexia and other significant reading, writing and spelling challenges. Each student receives highly targeted instruction based on their unique learning needs, with lessons designed to strengthen the underlying skills and strategies necessary for accurate, fluent reading with full comprehension. Our program uses Orton-Gillingham-based Structured Literacy curriculum and methods, aligned with the science of reading. All lessons are provided by our founder, Diana Finch, M.Ed., M.Sc., who has taught hundreds of children to read during the past 25+ years. Our results are consistently phenomenal. Please see our Testimonials page. The lesson schedule for the program is four days per week, 45 minutes per lesson, via Zoom. Please click the button and submit the application form for more information and enrollment.
Comprehensive Literacy Skills Assessment
Comprehensive Literacy Skills Assessment
This comprehensive assessment of foundational literacy skills identifies the specific skills and underlying difficulties contributing to a child’s reading challenges. After the assessment, parents receive a private conference explaining the findings, along with an optional detailed written report outlining the student’s strengths, areas of need, and recommendations for appropriate instruction and intervention.
Our Flagship Family Online Course
Helping Your Child Overcome Severe Reading Challenges—Dyslexia
THIS COURSE IS CURRENTLY OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT!
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This course is appropriate for families of children with dyslexia who experience severe reading challenges, which in the Dyslexia Rescue® program refers to significant cognitive processing delays and significant memory deficits that interfere with learning to read.
In this online course, you and your child will follow a third-grade student as she makes 3 to 5 years' worth of academic growth in just a few months—from struggling to understand how words and reading work to reading successfully with full comprehension.
Learn alongside her as you discover exactly how to help your own child make sense of reading and to become a successful, confident reader.
The program teaches both you and your child. Through step-by-step video lessons, you’ll watch me teach the skills, learn what to do and then practice those same skills with your child.
SPECIAL OFFER FOR FOUNDING FAMILIES
For a limited time, your family can experience the Dyslexia Rescue® Family Program for just $1 for the first month.
Your first month: $1
After your first month: $200/month
No long-term contract. Cancel anytime.
If you continue after your first month, your membership automatically continues at $200 per month until you cancel.
*Dyslexia Rescue® does not diagnose or clinically classify dyslexia. Terms such as "severe reading challenges" describe Dyslexia Rescue® program placement categories and are not clinical diagnoses.
Find the right support for your child
Helping Your Child Overcome Severe Reading Challenges—Dyslexia
Helping Your Child Overcome Moderate Reading Challenges—Dyslexia
NOW OPEN FOR ENROLLMENT!
This course is appropriate for children with severe reading challenges who need more intensive support with reading, memory, and processing.
Follow a real student's journey from struggling with words and reading to becoming a successful, confident reader - while learning exactly how to support your own child along the way.
Helping Your Child Overcome Moderate Reading Challenges—Dyslexia
Helping Your Child Overcome Moderate Reading Challenges—Dyslexia
For families of children ages 5–12 with dyslexia who do not experience significant cognitive processing delays. This course will teach you how to help your child develop the foundational skills and strategies needed to become a successful, confident reader.
Helping Your Child Overcome Mild Reading Challenges—Dyslexia
For families of children ages 5–12 with dyslexia who do not experience significant processing delays or significant memory deficits. This course will teach you how to help your child strengthen reading skills and develop the strategies needed for increasingly successful, independent reading.
Helping Your Adolescent Overcome Reading Challenges—Dyslexia
Helping Your Adolescent Overcome Reading Challenges—Dyslexia
For families of adolescents ages 13–18 with dyslexia. This course is designed specifically for older students who continue to struggle with reading and need targeted instruction appropriate to their age and learning needs.
Helping Your Child Overcome Reading Challenges—ADHD
Helping Your Adolescent Overcome Reading Challenges—Dyslexia
Helping Your Adolescent Overcome Reading Challenges—ADHD
For families of children ages 5–12 with ADHD who experience reading challenges. This course will address the literacy and learning needs of children whose attention, executive-function, and processing differences can interfere with successful reading.
Helping Your Adolescent Overcome Reading Challenges—ADHD
Helping Your Adolescent Overcome Reading Challenges—Dyslexia
Helping Your Adolescent Overcome Reading Challenges—ADHD
For families of adolescents ages 13–18 with ADHD who continue to experience reading challenges. This course will provide age-appropriate literacy instruction and strategies designed around the learning needs of adolescents with ADHD.