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 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: developing a deeper understanding of the data that would suggest 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 full evaluation. 

Melody has worked in public and private education for over 20 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 through 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 (QI). As a CALT, she is trained to provide diagnostic, explicit, systematic, multisensory structured language interventions, which builds 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 training in Take Flight: A Comprehensive Intervention for Students with Dyslexia, BUILD: A K-1 Early Reading Intervention, Jet: A Fast-Paced Intervention, and Turbo Start: A Dyslexia Curriculum for Newly Identified Students, developed by staff at the Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disorders at Scottish Rite for Children (SRC) in Dallas, Texas. She completed her CALT and QI training through McKinney Christian Academy - Multisensory Teacher Training (MCA-MTT), where she is currently contracted as an instructor.