The Difference

The Problem

In the United States 68% of our students do not read at the proficient level and three out of four special education students never recover enough to enjoy reading success. Although teachers are often blamed, this problem is rather the fault of defective reading instruction methods. Hard working and compassionate teachers bravely do their best to help struggling students, but they are gravely limited by the methods prescribed by our teacher training institutions.

The Solution

Even when other methods, programs and learning centers have failed, Academic Associates Reading Clinic consistently produces dramatic, life-changing results. Over the years, our graduates have gained an average of 2-5 grade levels in as little as 30-60 hours of instruction. Our distinctive and unique synthetic phonics-based program, developed over the last four decades, has become the world’s most effective reading instruction method. It generates exceptional outcomes for beginning readers and those who wish to excel, as well as for those experiencing reading difficulties.

Unique Method

The Academic Associates® unique instructional method cooperates with the brain’s own neural architecture. It streamlines the flow of data into the linguistic part of the brain, simplifying and accelerating the process of learning to read. This is one of the primary reasons Academic Associates Reading Clinic has been so successful in teaching children who have failed with other programs to read.

Many bright students become crippled in their reading abilities today by instructional approaches which “hardwire” their brains to read as if English were an ideographic or pictographic language. To read correctly, they need to be retrained to read phonetically. The Academic Associates® Reading Program accomplishes this without using the damaging analytic phonics taught in teacher training institutions.