SCDL was created due to a lack of resources for students with reading difficulties in Southwest Missouri. Our Executive Director, Noel Leif, struggled to find tutoring help for her children when they were falling behind in early elementary school. Because there were no programs that could help, she sought out training and home-schooled. In a single school year her children were back to grade level, and she began tutoring other local children. This single effort grew into a non-profit organization that employs 24 staff, trains teachers throughout Missouri and Arkansas, and provides dyslexia therapy to students in southwest MO and nationwide.
Mission Statement
Provide educational, charitable, and supportive services to individuals with dyslexia. Delivering research-based multi-sensory teaching methods in a positive learning environment that ignites the student’s inner strengths and inspires them to be engaged lifelong learners building foundations in literacy (reading, writing, spelling).
