My name is Saysha Woeste.

I am a Structured Literacy Dyslexia Specialist (SLDS), am certified through the Center for Effective Reading Instruction (KPEERI), and am certified through the International Dyslexia Association (IDA).

I provide those who are dyslexic and/or are illiterate the tools they need to become successful readers, writers, and spellers. I do this through weekly online, one on one, direct, explicit, systematic, structured literacy therapy sessions.

While these weaknesses do not vanish and, in most cases, cannot be “cured” — they can be aided and empower a floundering student to become confident in their abilities.

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I’m sure you’ve been there: you send your child to public school, trusting that they will provide your child with the tools necessary to have foundational literacy skills… to quickly find out, they don’t.

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My story begins with a girl in first grade. She was struggling to read, write, and spell, but the teachers kept telling her she would get “better”, allowing her to pass along through the public school system, hoping for the best.

Then COVID happens. Schools are shut down, those forgotten within the system are now lost, and illiteracy is at (what seems to be) an all-time high in the United States.

Then we discover that this young, beautiful girl is highly dyslexic.

We were fearful at first, believing that dyslexia (or really any reading difficulty) was something to be ashamed of... when, in reality, it is an unwelcomed intellectual superpower.

Click here to learn more about dyslexia and the brain.