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Parent Reviews of Easyread

Our most recent reviews:

We have reached the final codeword…

Jan 23, 2017

We have reached the final codeword and made huge progress! We had planned on this happening a month ago but Christmas and summer got in the way. We will take great care with the helicopter and ensure its used safely and will be our responsibility.

Thank you so much for the Easyread programme. Olivia has made huge progress in her reading and is now reading basic chapter books and is at the appropriate school reading level for her age. This is a completely different position to where we were a year ago when it was a struggle to even get through one sentence. She was a year behind in her reading.

The easyread system of doing 15 minutes a day has really worked for Olivia, as she was struggling to concentrate for longer than that when we started.

The other huge benefit of the easyread system is the help and support you receive and identifying other issues like the eyetracking. It is just not an online programme. We had tried those before and didn\’t work.

More people need this!

Jan 19, 2017

More people need this! I have shared it with several moms and will continue to do so. We appreciate your team and the program so much.

I have found her reading to herself in her room…

Jan 19, 2017

We are very happy with the system and the thing I am finding is the biggest change is Faith’s WILLINGNESS to read, in fact I have found her in her room reading to herself which was NOT happening at all before. So that is a HUGE step in the right direction.

Both my son and I love how…

Jan 19, 2017

Both my son and I love how short and fun the system is. He really enjoys the games and I can tell his confidence in reading is building. It still brings joy to my face when he asks me if he can log on for his lessons. He has finally found a reading program that he wants to stick with. He is on Lesson 43 and is still so excited about it. As a parent it is incredible to watch your child grow and the system is a huge part of that success. Thank you so much for this Outstanding program and INCREDIBLE staff.

– S

Glimmers of real progress!

Jan 18, 2017

We have been seeing glimmers of real progress. Lucy has to make up 10 sentences each week for her spelling homework. Previously they would be full of mistakes, including often the spellings themselves which are there for her to copy. Last week she wrote her sentences without help and there were only two spelling mistakes! We were all really proud of her!

I will continue to shout your praise!

Jan 18, 2017

Thank you so much for all that the programme has done to help Ben progress with his reading. We feel that we have gone as far as we can with it now as he has lost interest in doing the lessons now he is a bit older. His reading has come on I leaps because of your help and we are now concentrating on getting him ready for his SATS in May.  As always I will continue to shout your praise and recommend you to anyone I know in the same situation.

Nothing but good words for your company

Jan 17, 2017

You have been so gracious to me, I have nothing but good words about your company, and how you have helped our household, not only with customer service, but with an improved reading ability.  Thanks to everyone’s work at your place.  We appreciate you.  Happy new year…. this is the year we are going to succeed!!!
Sincerely,
Kathy (mother to 23 year old on the program)

This is the best start to the year…

Jan 17, 2017

Thanks for the info and exciting news about the snow. We are eagerly awaiting it in Leicestershire. Just wanted to say a huge thank you… Amelia has had a breakthrough and despite enjoying the programme confessed that yesterday was the first time that she really enjoyed reading. She is becoming much more fluid and had traded brown book band Enid Blyton for Gangster Gran which she even read in the car on the way home from school. Looking forward to seeing the same progress in her spelling and enjoyment of writing.

This the best start to the year.

– (age 8) Amelia’s mum

Gone up 5 levels at school!

Jan 12, 2017

He has literally gone up five reading levels at school, after being stuck on one level for a year and a half. Everything is starting to click now! He’s even putting his thoughts better together and processing everything more!

I feel like I’m not in this alone

Jan 10, 2017

I feel like I am not in this alone and that you are here to help and find ways that will improve Tanners reading and also help me motivate and keep things positive. I think we are both really excited to see his growth and confidence.

Reading… before she turned 4!

Jan 10, 2017

You should know that almost as soon as she started looking at Peter and Jane books (the key words edition) she was reading them. Before she turned 4. Amazing. In no small part to Easyread.

His teachers have already noticed an improvement

Jan 10, 2017

My son has already benefited from the program. His teachers and tutor have noticed that his reading has improved and I am sure the spelling side will improve shortly. The games are fun and Reece doesn’t always realise he is improving/learning.

Now exceeding his reading goals in 2nd grade!

Jan 5, 2017

Jameson has shown great progress and now is keeping up or exceeding all of his reading/literature goals in 2nd grade this year. Thanks so much for the help, this program really got him through issues he was having learning to read!

We have a reader!

Dec 22, 2016

Without this program we would not have a reader in our midst and a kid who has grown with confidence! Please know our gratitude for what this program has done for our son.

Should have enrolled her sooner!

Dec 22, 2016

We are certainly seeing progress both inside and outside the program. We always have the subtitles on the TV to expose her to more words, but recently she has started reading the occasional word out loud!

I should have enrolled her sooner as it was recommended to us by a friend a year ago, but I was put off by the price, so continued to work on assorted other strategies. My daughter was continuing to make slow progress with other methods, but not at the speed at which she is now progressing. She had fallen to about 5 years behind her peers, so we bit the bullet.

We still can’t access any funding as nobody can agree on a diagnosis for her, but there comes a point where you are prepared to do anything to give your child a chance. At this point I am glad we took the risk.

She likes the prizes which provide good motivation.

More progress in 10 lessons than a whole summer tutoring!

Dec 22, 2016

We have decided that we would rather invest in this program, coupled with his school work as well as the work he does with me after school than pay his private tutor $40 an hour for 6 hours a week. To be honest, we have seen more improvement in the last month doing these 10 lessons than we saw all summer with his tutor. So thank you for that!

Case Study: Three trilingual siblings in Norway

Dec 21, 2016

We are a family with 3 children of the ages of 17, 14 and 10. My husband is from New Zealand and I am from Germany. Our children were born in NZ where we lived until we moved to the north of Norway at the end of 2009. Our first language at home is English with German as the second language.
All 3 children were diagnosed with dyslexia within the first 3 years of school and all receive some ” special education” help of varying degree at school.
When we moved to Norway our children were confronted with Norwegian as a third language which provided a huge challenge to all of us but especially our oldest son who was 12 years old at that time.
Norway has a good system of supporting children with specific learning needs but getting into the system as a newcomer proved to be a very long and frustrating process. In the meantime I searched for alternatives in order to bridge the gap and to enable our children to continue with their learning while in process of applying for the help they needed.
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This is when I read about Easyread on the internet. What I liked about the program was the down-to-earth introduction by David Morgan, his positivity and his integrity towards making a difference to children who struggle at school. We did a one week trial and our oldest son who is classed as “severely dyslexic” liked the program instantly. His reading level at that stage was very poor, he had huge problems decoding words and often guessed the words instead of reading them.
He continued with the program and we never needed to encourage him to do the daily lessons because he was so inspired by the positive affirmations he received throughout the whole program and of course the reward gifts which arrived in the mail on a regular base. When he finished the course after approximately 1 year of daily lessons he was still a slower than average reader but had learned to decode and no longer needed to guess the text in front of him. His ability to read had increased hugely and this was evident in all 3 languages. Easyread had provided him with the tools necessary to decode and read and he was able to apply what he had learned in all 3 languages. What was interesting, was the fact that he found reading in German the easiest of all 3 languages, despite the fact that he had less opportunity to read in German.
Our oldest son is now 17 years old and was educated in Norwegian as well as English speaking schools during the last 5 years of study. The fact that he has mastered 3 languages both written and verbally is sensational given the fact that acquiring language for people with dyslexia is a huge challenge. For us and in our situation Easyread became a life saver and has contributed hugely towards our son’s success in learning at his level.
There are of course many contributing factors involved in overcoming a learning difficulty such as dyslexia and one has to realise that there will never be a “quick fix solution ” to such an issue.
Our son is still struggling with learning. He still receives extra help at school and has learned the use of assistant technology for his studies. He is an avid circus artist which I think has also helped him to access and connect some of the neurones in his brain necessary to further his ability to learn. He plays the piano and guitar at quite a high level and we were lucky enough to always find people who did not focus on his dyslexia as a problem. There is no doubt that his learning is slower than that of others but this does not matter to us or our son.
He was assessed by educational psychologists at varying stages during his childhood and we were provided with quite a clear picture of what we are dealing with from a relatively early stage onwards. To date he has excelled above all what was said and written about him by the experts over the years and I think that the key factors for his success are a strong and supportive family, the ability to focus on solutions rather than the problem, some wonderful and dedicated people on the journey of discovery, often during unexpected moments, and people like David Morgan and his team who have made it their business to provide real life help to people who struggle with reading and writing by developing programmes like Easyread.
Before I had children I barely knew the word dyslexia and had no concept of what it means. I still remember the despair and disbelief my husband I felt when we were confronted with the fact that our son ( and later all our children) were diagnosed with dyslexia.
My husband and I have had no problems achieving at school or professionally ourselves and it all was a real shock to us. However, we have learned a lot and not least through and because of our 3 beautiful children who we love and support in every way possible. All 3 of them have become experts on dyslexia and are not shy to describe to others their struggles in every day life. I feel that they have become strong individuals who have learned to problem solve by developing an ability to make the best of every situation.
Our 2 younger children both went through the Easyread program as well. Unlike our first child they did not complete the whole program for different reasons. Our daughter has a mild intellectual disability as well a dyslexia and found it difficult to sustain the daily rhythm of the program. Despite of this, she benefited greatly from Easyread because it helped her to automise the alphabet as well as decoding words. Her reading speed is still very slow which is associated with her general disability.
Our youngest son also did not finish the whole course because he learned to decode the words very fast and felt a bit bored with the lessons once he had cracked the code. His reading gets assessed at school at regular intervals and has progressed in big steps after doing Easyread. He now reads in English and Norwegian and prefers to read in Norwegian which is interesting proof of the fact that once learning to decode words has been achieved it can then be transferred into any other language as well.
It would be interesting to see whether non-English speaking dyslexic children would benefit from doing Easyread as part of their learning of English as a second language.
I recognise that different things work for different people and that there are different learning styles which may not be facilitated in every programme offered on the market.
Without wanting to sound like a sales agent, I can say that Easyread has been a great help and resource for our 3 children, especially because it is designed to meet the children at their level and interest and is so much fun to do. Our children did not notice how much they were learning during their every day lessons and often got a surprise when reading a text at school they had struggled with before. Our oldest son even thought at the beginning that David Morgan was really sitting at the other end talking to him during the lessons and felt very silly when he realised that this was of course not the case!!!!
Our children have the use of 3 different languages both written and verbally with English as their best language, followed by Norwegian and then German as least used language during their every day life. Their language learning has of course helped greatly by having a German-speaking mother, an English-speaking father, many international friends and the Norwegian speaking environment in which we live. Language in my opinion, cannot be seen in isolation and is connected to culture and environment. I find it remarkable what can be achieved even in the face of difficulty such as dyslexia.

You have made a real difference in her life

Dec 20, 2016

The system has been fabulous for Annalise and we are extremely appreciative of the system you have devised and all the effort you and Maddie put into the programme.  Annalise actually secured a B for reading in her end of year report with outstanding effort.
You have made a real difference in our daughter’s life and confidence as she now goes up to the big school next year with her head held high. Thank you.

I can’t tell you how much she has enjoyed doing Easyread

Dec 20, 2016

“Just to say a big thank you for sending Tilly the helicopter. As you can imagine she is thrilled with it and has already mastered flying it!

Tilly has made great progress with her reading through the system and the whole programme has helped her get into a really good work routine. I can’t tell you how much she has enjoyed doing Easyread and even this morning she said “I cant believe that I have finished it”.

We are now focusing on her spelling which has already improved and with SATS just around the corner we are also looking at practise papers so that the whole thing is not a shock for her.

I will certainly recommend the programme to others and I know that Tilly was keen to show her teacher how it works!

I hope you all have a lovely Christmas and enjoyable New Year.
Many thanks
Lucy (mum of 10yo Tilly)”

No progress… then turned a huge corner!

Dec 19, 2016

I thought we hit a roadblock as we weren’t feeling like there was progress. And, Andrew was fighting the lessons for about a week. In particular, he didn’t like the reading section. Of course, that’s probably the most important.

But, he’s turned a corner!

Last week, he was moved up two reading levels at school. And, his is again pretty happy to do the Easyread lessons. I think getting extra affirmation at school was helpful. I do think he’s selected an Easyread book that is “easy” for him. But, it goes quickly and he is not fighting doing it now.

Last thing – the prizes are great. He was THRILLED to finally get a new codeword. Things are moving forward positively. Thanks!

Arlo won the most improved reader award for boys in year 8

Dec 14, 2016

“Hello

We haven’t been part of the Easyread programme for several months, but I have some good news to share. Last night at the school prize giving Arlo won the most improved reader award for boys in year 8 (he’s 13) and a $100 book voucher!  Very exciting!

Arlo also had three movies in the DigiAwards recently and won best actor. That bit seems like it’s not relevant… but it actually is, because he writes a lot of his scripts. When we started the Easyread programme (I think he was 11) his writing was totally phonetic and almost nothing spelt correctly. What a massive change from then to now!

I know I’ve sent you so many thank you emails and messages, but I thought you’d like to know about those awards 🙂

Have a fabulous Christmas!

Sonya”

What an amazing end to the year for Arlo!

Arlo was actually our Breakthrough Reader for December last year. You can read all about his story here.

So simple, yet so effective!

Dec 8, 2016

Max’s reading is coming along nicely, so much so he is getting an award at school for his reading perseverence and positive attitude towards it! He is trying hard to read road signs and billboards, newspaper headlines etc. He always says ‘what does that say?” so I ask him what he thinks and he gives it a go without hesitation – a major positive step. The eyetracking exercises we did really helped as once we started I noticed that when reading left to right he ever so slightly moved his head so the exercises were the right course of action to strengthen those eye muscles….so simple yet so effective!
And as all your research shows, there was a definite plateau of progress where everything seemed very challenging and processing things took a very long time, however now he seems to be on an upward trend and rocketing along.

"I like everything about Easyread!"

Dec 7, 2016

I asked Betsy what she liked and didn’t like about Easyread and she said: “I like everything and there is nothing I don’t like”.

I am happy with the programme in that I have seen great improvement already in 6 weeks in terms of her approach to reading outside of Easyread (she is happy to do it and has stopped guessing and instead sounds out new words) and her accuracy (the silly mistakes on short words seems to have stopped almost completely).

Betsy is still enjoying all the games and activities – even ones she found harder (name game and rhyme time) she is getting the hang of and enjoying more.

In terms of concerns: the main (actually only) concern is that the actual reading part of the lesson seems very short. In that she has one word per page (so no need to re-read phrases yet as such) and it is over and done with very quickly. When will she see something more like a page of text?

I still haven’t gotten to grips with the eye tracking – and it is my fault for not getting the 10-10 done. Maybe the school holidays will be the best time to really get on top of this?

I have recommended Easyread to a number of people now as I think it is a great programme. I have seen good results just in 6 weeks and am encouraged to continue with the programme. Betsy has already moved up a couple of reading levels at school and has just been picked to read aloud in the school carol concert 🙂

Improved with his phonics…

Dec 7, 2016

Lucas still enjoys the program. The games are still entertaining and he doesn’t mind doing them. He has improved with his phonics. He uses the pictures to help him if needed, and it has helped a lot. There are times he tell me that he read the word without looking at the pictures. That is good news to me. I have not seen a lot of progress in his independent reading, but I know it will take some time. We are pushing through and waiting for the light bulb to come on and stay on!!  – (written at 1.5 months in)

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