About Us
Reading Assist Mission
Reading Assist provides intensive services for young, at-risk children with the most significant reading challenges so that they achieve reading progress and proficiency.
The Problem
For students with significant reading challenges like dyslexia, traditional classroom reading instruction often isn’t enough.
- Additional factors, such as being a minority or an English language learner, or coming from a low-income household, can make it even more difficult for students to reach reading proficiency.
- Students with a language-based learning disability are more than twice as likely to drop out of high school.
- Students from low-income backgrounds are more than five times as likely to drop out of high school.
The Solution
Reading Assist works in partnership with schools to identify and serve children in grades K-3 who are in the lowest 10% in terms of reading proficiency.
We recruit, train, and embed Reading Assist Fellows to provide our accredited, one-on-one reading intervention program to students from low-income backgrounds, English language learners, and students with dyslexia.
