The Reading Lab

This lady is a quack and a fraud. After 6 months and $ 5k, there is no noticeable difference in my child’s ability. I should have realized she was a charlatan when she refused to show me samples of the program she uses. (I wasn’t even allowed to see the computer room.)
Conversely, going to this program has significantly LOWERED my child’s grades because it consumes almost 2 hours immediately after school M-​Th, leaving little time or energy for my child to do real school work. Ms. Macaluso only works between 3 – 6, M-​Th.
There have been at least 3 other similar students who started at the same time as mine, all 3 dropped out within the first month because it is a time suck and didn’t even begin to help. In comparing the «scores» with the those students, the other students had almost the same scores with the same basic information. Even students in elementary had similar scores as students in high school.
In the initial meeting about the Reading Lab program, she presented herself as a doctor/​psychologist. Now, after searching online, I don’t see any such credentials, although she closely associates herself with doctors on her website. This helps explain why she does not accept credit cards even though she charges a huge amount.
In summary — save yourself the time, the money, and frustration. This doesn’t help students, it’s just them sitting in front of a video game for an hour.