Get Certified in Phono-Graphix!
Our practitioners make a difference in thousands of children's lives every day - in classrooms, clinics, pull-out and RTI programs, bilingual and ESL programs, Waldorf and Montessori schools, pre-schools, home-schools, speech and language pathology practices, volunteer literacy projects and adult literacy programs
Our Phono-Graphix certification courses are designed to show you exactly how to replicate the results achieved at the Read America Clinic in Orlando, Florida, reported in the Orton Annals of Dyslexia and other clinical studies. The Orton Annals of Dyslexia study included 87 children ages six to sixteen, 44% of whom were previously diagnosed as learning disabled. In a twelve hour remedial course, 98% of the children reached grade level reading. The remaining 2% simply needed additional time in therapy. Remediation time averaged only twelve hours. Average gains were just over two years in real word reading and four years in nonsense word reading (decoding). In subsequent work at the clinic, the shortest time in which a client was remediated was six hours and the longest time was 36 hours.
Our courses will prepare you to teach new and emerging readers and to remediate reading problems at any age or ability, clinically one-on-one, in small groups and in classroom settings.
As a certified Phono-Graphix practitioner, you will be eligible to join the professional Phono-Graphix Association of Reading Therapists, allowing you to get exclusive offers, network, interact, and reach out to thousands of potential clients through our website.
Train Online
Over 1.300 teachers and parents have trained online!
In our online course animated sample students provide you with composite personalities, constructed from the years of experience of the program developers. Real students come to life, with real personalities, real auditory processing deficits, poor code knowledge, and a mixed bag of bad strategies. Students Annabel, Donny, and Fiona make all the mistakes participants will typically need to handle in their clinics and classrooms. The program developers appear with appropriate outtakes so that participants get the most out of the students's errors and the Phono-Graphix error correction techniques. Imagine that you could peek in a window and watch one of the program developers giving a lesson. Now you can! You will feel like you know the program developers when you've completed the course, like they led you by the hand through the nature of the code, the nature of the learner, and all the subtleties that make Phono-Graphix the most effective reading program ever used.
Work at your own pace - log on from home, school, or work, and take as long as you wish to complete the course, or you can do it in as fast as ten days if your pace is quick and you have the time to dedicate to it.
It's affordable - our online course is affordably priced, you won't have to worry about travel and lodging, and do not have to miss work to complete it.
It's easy and effective: Online participants can review lectures and demonstrations over and over and at their convenience, and demonstrations are much closer-in than in a large training venue. Participants go through the entire program with a student or students of their own, and can easily ask questions in the course or email the instructor(s) or program developers directly.
Course fee is $830 per person and includes a full kit of instructional materials for working with your students, and shipping within the United States. Substantial discounts are available for groups of 5 or more!
To sign up for online training click here
Read what some of our online trainees have to say:
"The course was excellent. The child I have been working with throughout my training has made tremendous progress in his reading."
Vivian Harrison, Oceanside, CA
"My friend's daughter is finishing up 1st grade right now. The school's teachers, specialists, and her mother have been working with her since the beginning of 1st grade. In March, her mom talked to me about how they'd hit a brick wall. The mother was desperate. There had been little to no progress since the beginning of the year. I asked her mother if I could take a shot at it. I was just starting my PG course, and I offered the lessons for free. Her daughter was evaluated by the school in March and labeled LD. Immediately after, I starting working with her. After seven sessions, the school's reading specialist sent the mother an email in April expressing her surprise at the child's progress. She was already nearly reading at grade level. Her mother is now a paying customer of mine through the end of summer. :) And the little girl is soooo proud of herself. It was a truly sweet moment to listen to the child tell me about her school tutor's comments."
Nicole Ott, Blacklick, OH
"It was valuable to learn about the Phono-Graphix method after hearing about it for several years. The method seems especially useful as an intervention for students who are having difficulty "breaking the code" of reading, and the course offers ways to assess students and use the assessment to design an intervention for each student. It was useful to be able to do the course online. I believe I got just about as much, or perhaps even more, out of it by doing it online as I would have in an in-person class."
Catherine Lawler, Silver Spring, MD
"This course has been meaningful in learning, in a step-by-step way, how to use the method. It shows you how to teach in the classroom, small groups, or one-on-one in a private tutoring setting. What I love is that I have all of the materials ready to go. There is less prep time for me as a teacher, so I can focus more on the extension activities as I go."
April Boyle, San Diego, California
Live Trainings
Live certification courses, taught by our independent licensed trainers, provide personalized attention, practical experience, demonstrations and hands-on practice.
Courses are typically held over four days, preparing participants to then take the online certification exam.
Trainers are independently licensed and set their own training fees. Each course participant is required to purchase our Certification Kit, available exclusively through the Phono-Graphix Reading Company.
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Live Trainings
Sound to Symbol to Meaning Dual Certification CourseNovember 4, 2023 - November 25, 2023Puchong, Malaysia
Sound to Symbol to Meaning Dual Certification CourseJune 19, 2023 - June 23, 2023Odyssey School, Lutherville-Timonium, Maryland
Mentor Certification ProgramJune 2, 2023 - July 31, 2023Hybrid course - combines self-paced online content with live online meetings and job-embedded coaching with licensed trainer Michelle Cicotte, MEd.
Mentor Certification ProgramApril 23, 2023 - May 28, 2023Hybrid course - combines self-paced online content with in-person meetings in Houston, Texas and job-embedded coaching with licensed trainer Blythe Grossman
Sound to Symbol to Meaning Dual Certification CourseApril 8, 2023 - June 15, 2023Selangor, Malaysia
Mentor Certification ProgramApril 8, 2023 - May 20, 2023Hybrid course - combines self-paced online content with live online meetings and job-embedded coaching with licensed trainer Michelle Cicotte, MEd.
Sound to Symbol to Meaning Dual Certification CourseMarch 7, 2023 - April 18, 2023Northshore SD, Bothell, Washington
Sound to Symbol to Meaning Dual Certification CourseFebruary 20, 2023 - July 10, 2023Moon Hall School, Reigate, Surrey
Mentor Certification ProgramJanuary 21, 2023 - March 11, 2023Hybrid course - combines self-paced online content with live online meetings and job-embedded coaching with licensed trainer Michelle Cicotte, MEd.
Sound to Symbol to Meaning Dual Certification CourseJanuary 12, 2023 - February 2, 2023Arlington Public Schools, Arlington, VA