Gina Underwood, M.Ed., LDT, CALT Licensed Dyslexia Therapist Certified Academic Language Therapist, ALTA Structured Literacy/Dyslexia Interventionist, CERI Gina@SanAntonioReadingCamps.com www.SanAntonioReadingCamps.com Gina creates Phonics Readers, based on systematic phonics principles, to encourage the struggling reader to finally have success with reading. These readers are published on Amazon. Gina works with adults and children who struggle with reading, writing, and spelling. After spending countless hours helping hundreds of failing students, Gina knows that employing all the senses is integral in developing a life-long love of learning. Reversing the spiraling downward trend of low self-esteem due to repeated learning failures is possible through multisensory learning. Gina knows that every person can succeed with the right tools and curriculum that engages the senses. She has a Masters of Education in Dyslexia Therapy from Mississippi College. She is a Licensed Dyslexia Therapist (LDT) with the state of Texas and a Certified Academic Language Therapist (CALT) with Academic Language Therapy Association (ALTA). Gina is a Dyslexia Practitioner, certified by the International Dyslexia Association. She is a Structured Literacy/Dyslexia Interventionist with Center for Effective Reading Instruction. She holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in the College of Education from the University of Texas at Austin. In her Masters program, she provided dyslexia therapy to students in a private practice setting for more than 1,000 clinical hours. She used the Alphabetic Phonics curriculum which evolved directly from Orton-Gillingham because it was scientific, universally successful, specific, and combined all three learning modalities (auditory for spelling; visual for reading; and kinesthetic for handwriting). Alphabetic Phonics was developed by Dr. Lucius Waite and Aylett Cox in the Language Laboratory in the inter-disciplinary setting of the Scottish Rite Hospital in Dallas, Texas over ten years (1965-1975).
