Dear Parent, Thank you for your interest in Phono-Graphix reading therapy. As you may know from your search for the best possible reading method for your child, Read America, Inc. has been in the business of clinical reading therapy since 1993 when my husband Geoffrey and I developed Phono-Graphix and opened the original Read America Clinic in Orlando. Since then the popularity of Phono-Graphix has spread beyond our greatest expectations. Read America began training teachers and publishing curriculum in 1996 when our research was published in the Orton Annals of Dyslexia. With the 1998 publication of our book 'Reading Reflex' Read America's focus became more teacher training, publishing, and reform of literacy instruction. Finding it difficult to divide our time and energy between these endevors and reading therapy, we began the process of finding the right person to take the name 'Read America Clinic'. We found that person in Erin Duncan, one of our oldest and most experienced therapists, and in April of 2006 we sold the rights to the name 'Read America Clinic' to her so that we might focus our energy on Read America's teacher training and publishing endevors. Although the original clinic in Orlando no longer exists, Erin continues the important work of Read America Clinic in Santa Cruz, CA where she lives and works. 
Erin is a PG2 Master Therapist, Teacher Trainer, and Certified Language Wise
Therapist. Her twenty years of one-on-one clinical reading remediation experience,
along with ongoing implementation in the classroom in small group and whole class
instruction, make Erin uniquely qualified to take over Read America Clinic. Erin
has taught at all grade levels, from preschool through university, including regular
and bilingual classrooms, reading assistance projects and home schools. She works
with a wide range of students, including those with learning disabilities and special
needs, gifted students who need a challenge, brand-new readers, troubled teens, and
dyslexic adults. As a linguist, with formal language training Erin has been a regular
contributor to Read America’s ParenTeacher eZine, and she was among the first to have
her innovative Phono-Graphix techniques granted a BLUEPRINT for Literacy stamp of
approval. In short we chose the best possible person to carry on the important
clinical work we began so many years ago, and we are very fortunate that she
accepted the challenge.
Although Geoff and I are leaving reading therapy to focus Read America's resources on the other facets of reading reform, clinical work holds a special place in our history and hearts, and we remain available for parents like you who expect and deserve so much for their children. Best Wishes, Carmen McGuinness |