Remediation Plus is a company committed to training teachers how to teach Reading and Spelling explicitly using the empirical research evidence of best practices.95% of students can succeed with this sequence of lesson plans.The obsession with teaching reading comprehension before a student knows how to read and spell is somewhat irrational and years of research have still not found their way in the classroom..Oral language comprehension exercises and storytelling that enhance vocabulary growth will occur at the same time students are learning their phonemes and learning to blend for Reading and segment for Spelling.

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 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 proving to be a vital standardized solution that puts all the teachers on the same page and trains them so they can teach all at risk children to read,spell and write.Most Universities are not teaching them this process explicitly and because it is a specific skill set framed around very important research the R+ curriculum provides the reality for change versus a debate on ideological views.The training is only 2 days,the teachers are grateful for the systematic curriculum that empowers them to do their best work.

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 balanced literacy and applies empirically proven research through the hands of the teachers.

As the President of Remediation Plus Systems I have walked the journey of a parent looking for the right help and watched the emotional frustration of not only my child but hundreds of students and families since then who did not have access to research based multisensory explicit systematic instruction on phonological awareness,phoneme grapheme, correspondence, phonics, blending and segmenting work and fluency building exercises.These are the characterisitics of a program that leads to reading comprehension because students learn HOW to read and spell fluently. 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