BrainScience Works — Neuroscience Driven Education

Reading isn’t only seen and heard. It’s built, letter by letter, in a child’s own hands.

BrainScience Works™ Literacy is a supplemental reading program for struggling readers and children learning to read.

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One hands-on approach. Three steps towards stronger readers.

Our supplemental literacy programs combine explicit digital instruction, visual-spatial learning, writing, and clay-based activities to help students build foundational reading skills.

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See learning take shape

BrainScience Works™ Literacy Suite

Across Learning Letters, Seeing Words, and Knowing Words, students follow the same "Say, Build, See, Write" sequence as they move from individual letters to decoding common spelling patterns, to high-frequency word recognition. Together, these three programs give more learners a way to master the foundational literacy skills that set them up for lifelong reading success.

Flexible for your needs

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I’m an Administrator

Screening and legislation alone do not guarantee better student outcomes. Across 47 states studied, 43 did not see significant reading gains for students with identified learning disabilities after dyslexia laws were enacted. BrainScience Works help close the gap between policy and practice with low-lift, neuroscience-based programs, educator training, and clear progress tracking, giving schools tools to turn literacy goals into meaningful student growth.

Source: Hu et al., Annals of Dyslexia, via The Conversation, Feb 2026

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I’m a Teacher

Teachers are expected to respond to screening data, yet only 44% of educators surveyed said their school had a formal process for turning results into intervention plans. BrainScience Works provides a clear next step through ready-to-use programs that combine hands-on learning and writing practice with guided digital instruction. Learning Letters, Seeing Words, and Knowing Words make difficult literacy skills visible, memorable, and engaging without adding to teachers’ workloads.

Source: Ozernov-Palchik, … & Gabrieli (MIT), Annals of Dyslexia, Oct 2025

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I’m a Parent

You know your child best. Parents often recognize that their child needs help long before meaningful support is implemented. In a decades-long study, about two-thirds of children identified with dyslexia never received intervention. BrainScience Works gives families a practical way to act with research-informed, multisensory programs that help children learn letters, connect sounds, and master essential vocabulary, all while reducing frustration and building reading confidence.

Source: Shaywitz’s Connecticut Longitudinal Study, via EdWeek, Jan 2024

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Research-backed

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ESSA Level III - Promising Evidence

BrainScience Works demonstrated significant gains in letter recognition, and subsequent school pilots have shown continued growth in foundational literacy skills.

33%

improvement in lowercase letter recognition

when compared with an 11% improvement among students who completed the school’s curriculum alone.

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Its platform, assessment tools, progress monitoring, student-facing design, and teacher support all make the program more feasible for broader adoption by schools and districts.

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