About Us

Melissa Duersch is a Certified Academic Language Therapist, or CALT, with over 15 years experience helping students with dyslexia and other language-related learning differences.

Melissa is graduate of Utah State University with a Master of Arts Degree in History. She envisioned spending her life doing historical research in a dusty library and publishing books no one ever wanted to read. Life has a way of redirecting our paths.

When her third child struggled desperately to read, Melissa's research led her to the field of dyslexia and related learning disabilities. Through professional education, she became acquainted with and trained in Structured Literacy and Orton-Gillingham methods of dyslexia remediation, including the Barton Reading and Spelling System, Take Flight, Lindamood Bell’s LiPS program, Equipped for Reading Success, and Sequential English Education.

Melissa completed a graduate-level program in multisensory structured language, approved by both ALTA and the IDA, that included over 200 hours of classroom instruction, the submission of teaching videos, and a 700-hour supervised practicum. She received her training in the Take Flight program.

Melissa is now a Certified Academic Language Therapist, or CALT. She has worked with dozens of students and their families over the past 15 years.