Russell Van Brocklen has over 10 years of experience in teaching students with Dyslexia techniques to overcome their current struggles and recognize the superpower they’ve been given.

Today he explains:

• His background with dyslexia
• How his methods developed
• Client examples – they were so insightful.
• What a warrant is and how to use it.
• Advice for us as grandparents reading with dyslexic grands

Russell’s classes are for youth but he trains a parent or a grandparent who aids the dyslexic youth.

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Russell Van Brocklen has over 10 years of experience in teaching students with Dyslexia techniques to overcome their current struggles and recognize the superpower they’ve been given.

Dyslexia touches as many as 15–20 % of all learners, yet most families still hear “wait and see.” He flip that script. As the Dyslexia Professor, he translates structured-literacy methods proven most effective for struggling readers into bite-size actions parents can use tonight. Listeners will know exactly why multisensory routines beat generic worksheets and how to start seeing progress before the next report card.

His programs were developed when he combined the brain research in Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz with the three default writing strategies in Strategies for Struggling Writers by James Collins while in graduate school.  As a result, his initial research program was funded by the New York State Senate and is owned by the SUNY Research Foundation.

He found that motivated high school students with dyslexia increased their writing skills by 7 to 8-grade levels in one academic year. His approach is called The Writing Method.

Russell presented at The Everyone Reading Conference in Manhattan in 2006 and from 2014 to 2019.  He also presented in November of 2018 at a conference run by The Learning Disability Association of NJ.