About me
Elizabeth Kean is a special education teacher in St. Louis with 25 years of experience working in special education. After a decade teaching English in South Korea, she became fascinated by how Hangul's logical, phoneme-based writing system made literacy accessible in ways that English orthography simply does not. That question followed her home.
The result is PLORA, the Phoneme-Linked Orthographic Reading Approach, a bridge orthography that gives students a temporary, learnable code: one symbol per sound, no exceptions. Designed for students in grades 3 through 12 who have already tried everything else, PLORA separates the two problems that get tangled together in struggling readers: decoding and spelling. Most students need only 8 to 12 weeks before transitioning back to standard text.
If you work with students who shut down, avoid reading tasks, or have been through intervention after intervention without improvement, she'd love to talk. PLORA is free, and she's actively looking for teachers to join the pilot.
