Sad Dog Literacy

Sad Dog Literacy is a low cost, high impact, small group intervention for children aged 5-9 who are struggling to make expected progress in literacy learning. Sad Dog Literacy uses the highly innovative technique of combining therapeutic stories with tried and tested methods of teaching literacy. This approach has been shown to engage and motivate the most disadvantaged children with additional needs including those with autism, ADHD, cognition and learning needs including dyslexia, speech and language needs and those who have had adverse childhood experiences. Research trials of Sad Dog Literacy have shown improvements in children’s attention and listening skills, handwriting, spelling and sentence composition and most notably, substantial gains in word reading and remarkable gains in comprehension.