"Mr. A. had dyslexia as a child and received help from Janet Rule, one of the founders of the Orton Gillingham structured phonetics movement. His tutor was actually the wife of the Dean of Students at MIT.

While at Harvard, Mr. A. found that structured phonetics fell far short of providing all the answers for reading well and quickly. He conducted a large number of reading experiments on himself over his college career, not always with ideal results. Nevertheless, he survived. He graduated in 1968 with a B.A. in American History and a desire to improve reading.

Mr. A. decided he would become a professional inventor and solve a number of educational related issues, applying his theory of creativity to education. In the mid 80's Mr. A. wrote a structured phonetics course to help his then young daughter and other people learn to read.

By 1990 Mr. A. saw that he could finish his dream of building a tool to process any text in a way that would enable troubled readers to read at grade level, fast and well, and also help average and good readers become excellent readers. For the last twenty-five years he has focused his creative energy on solving reading issues with this new technology. Proportional Reading is the name for this new approach and the software Mr. A. wrote to empower students to do these things.

Mr. A. has spoken nationally and regionally at a number of conferences and has worked with a number of schools in the U.S.A. He was flown to Washington, DC to receive the national award for helping Dyslexics. He has also been invited frequently to other countries as a reading consultant, most notably Canada, Ireland, Northern Ireland and Czechoslovakia.

Mr. A. also worked with The University of Massachusetts (Boston) and a major textbook publisher to improve student reading of nursing textbooks, using his software.

In the spring and summer of 2018 Mr. A. designed a new way to teach reading improvement, using video conferencing, specially designed for 1on1 teaching to both individuals and group clas" less...