Joanna Brown

Joanna Brown, founder and CEO of The Reading Guru, is a master Orton-Gillingham reading tutor with more than 15 years of experience providing personalized, one-on-one reading instruction. Joanna holds an M.S. in Elementary Education and Literacy from Bank Street College of Education in NYC, and a B.A. from the University of Colorado. Joanna is certified by the Center for Effective Reading Instruction (CERI) as a Structured Literacy Dyslexia Specialist (C-SLDS). She earned this certification through training at the Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators (AOGPE) as well as with the digital, multisensory training program, Lexercise. She also has completed training with the Orton-Gillingham based, multi-sensory program Preventing Academic Failure (PAF).

Joanna began tutoring children in reading in New York City in 2005. She has worked with hundreds of struggling readers, dyslexic readers, and readers needing enrichment. Joanna founded The Reading Guru in 2019 after developing a series of tools and techniques to allow her to bring her Orton-Gillingham-based literacy tutoring to students all over the world. She and her team of highly-experienced tutors now work virtually and in-person with students in every type of school, both in the United States and internationally, and help students who have a variety of educational differences including dyslexia, dysgraphia, ADHD, speech and language disorders, and executive functioning issues. Please schedule a free consultation with The Reading Guru to learn more.