Remediation Plus is a private corporation committed to the dissemination of information about methods that are 100% successful in obliterating reading and spelling problems in children and adults. Reading is a science and the research is undisputedly clear that phonemic awareness training, linguistic gymnastics and Orton Gillingham based reading programmes conquer reading and spelling problems even ones as severe as dyslexia.

Remediation Plus has perfected its own reading, spelling and writing system honouring the available scientific information! The system draws on training from a famous U.S. School, the study of language curriculums from other successful U.S. schools that treat dyslexia, the implementation of theories developed and researched by Harvard (Dr. Gordon Sherman), Yale (Dr. Sally Shaywitz), OISE (Dr. Keith Stanovich), Dr. Louisa Moats, “Reading is rocket science!”, Dr. Joseph Torgensen’s research, and the work of Dr. Reid Lyon, head of the National Institute of Health. He and his team of researchers have stipulated “how to teach people how to read” through the ongoing study of 36,000 students over nine years.

"Reading books and spelling books are no different than any pharmaceutical, no different than penicillin." Dr. Lyon states. The Remediation Plus System is available to any school as a solution for bridging literacy gap in students of all ages.
Three instruction videos or 5 CD ROMS will allow teachers to learn how to analyze reading and spelling problems, and as a direct result, learn to deliver the appropriate lesson plans in the Remediation Plus System. Students move up two to four years in spelling grades in as little as six months when attending twice-a-week as well as two to three years in reading...sometimes more!

Testimonials and concrete progress measured through scientific tests validate the successes of the students. The Remediation Plus System must be disseminated. It circumvents the debate on whole language and applies empirically proven research. It empowers children, parents and adults with language problems to attain the proper work that will make the significant difference.

As the president of Remediation Plus, I have walked the journey of a parent looking for the right help and watched the emotional devastation of an intelligent child who fell further and further behind his peers due to a difficulty with language. After attending the Gow School and finding out about research-based reading programmes, I remain aghast at the rarity of the implementation of this work as well as committed to its dissemination. In 1996, I formed a charity and a school whose mission was to deliver “the” work. As the project grew, educational rhetoric soon replaced science – it was a lesson learned.

In 1999, I formed Remediation Plus and have worked incessantly with my team to develop a programme based on research that would help children and adults alike, that was rigid, effective, structured, cumulative, multisensory and cognitive.

I care deeply about reading and feel passionate about circumventing philosophies that are entrenched but wrong.

Jo-Anne Gross, President
Remediation Plus