There are alternative reading methods currently being taught to ‘challenged-readers’ and others; however they teach phonemes and disjointed and disassociated facts requiring extensive memorization.
Many of the current methods are multi-program courses that can cost thousands of dollars and take years to complete. In contrast, the Universal Reading Method™ teaches just six (6) concepts and 300+ facts without memorization in just one hour and the exceptions to those six (6) concepts in the second hour.
Robin Perna (now a member of our Advisory Team) used the Universal Reading Method™ as the subject for her Master’s thesis. In her thesis Robin concluded that no other reading program: