Melody Herring, M.Ed., LDT, CALT-QI, RPED

Melody Herring is the Founder and Executive Director of R.E.A.D. Evaluation and Dyslexia Center in McKinney, TX, where she conducts comprehensive psychoeducational evaluations for specific learning disabilities, specializing in but not limited to dyslexia and related disorders. She offers professional development and training on the identification of dyslexia, including developing a deeper understanding of the data that suggests the need to consider dyslexia, the test instruments that specifically evaluate the core features of dyslexia, and the decision-making process within the context of a comprehensive evaluation. 

Melody has worked in public and private education for 25 years, serving as a special education and general education teacher, an elementary and middle school campus administrator, a dyslexia therapist, and an educational diagnostician. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Master of Educational Administration degrees from Texas Woman’s University. She completed the credentials for certification as an Educational Diagnostician through Midwestern State University and is a Registered Professional Educational Diagnostician in Texas, as recognized by the Texas Professional Educational Diagnosticians. 

Melody is a Licensed Dyslexia Therapist in the state of Texas, a Certified Academic Language Therapist (CALT), and a Qualified Instructor of Therapy (QI). As a CALT, she is trained to provide diagnostic, explicit, systematic, multisensory structured language interventions, which build a high degree of accuracy, knowledge, and independence for students with written-language disorders, including dyslexia. A QI has earned the credentials to teach professionals to become Certified Academic Language Therapists through an accredited International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council (IMSLEC) training center. She is approved to offer the following trainings, all of which were developed by staff at the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders at Scottish Rite for Children (SRC) in Dallas, Texas.

• Take Flight: A Comprehensive Intervention for Students with Dyslexia

• Bridges: A Dyslexia Intervention Connecting Teacher, Avatar and Student (Bridges)

• BUILD: A K-1 Early Reading Intervention

• Jet: A Fast-Paced Intervention

• Turbo Start: A Dyslexia Curriculum for Newly Identified Students