Designed by Nurses, for Nurses
My Literacy is associated with "Fantastic Phonics", a foundation phonics program helping more than 600,000 children and adults to learn to read English.

Fantastic Phonics has been researched by the United States Government, and shown to produce a 480% improvement in reading ability. Hundreds of charities and aid agencies use the program to assist communities in crisis, particularly refugees, in Africa, India and the Middle East, as well as emerging communities around the world, from Gaza to Ethiopia, Sierra Leone to South Africa, India to China, throughout the Pacific, and in Haiti and the Caribbean.

My Literacy is an literacy site for adults who are employed in the health care industry, particularly Aged Care. It was designed by nurses, for nurses, and for the residential facilities and retirement homes that employ Aged Care workers.

Literacy Changes Lives
My Literacy believes that literacy, particularly English skills, is essential for economic improvement. Estimates vary, but nearly 200 million people live in relative poverty because they are illiterate. They do no have the money to become educated, and often, they are in remote regions where teachers are non-existent, and the internet does not reach.

My Literacy builds systems for literacy, whether they are paper-based (for areas without any technology) or offline digital (for communities who do not have internet) or online digital (for communities who have internet).

For emerging  communities, the programs are donated. Our company has a team of international training experts who conduct workshops to train teachers and agency staff how to teach the programs, how to test for outcomes, and how to rapidly grow the programs within communities.

Phonics and Phonics Syllable
The secret of successful reading is learning to "decode" written text. Without formal training, people try to memorise each word by its shape, or letters, or some other visual cue - this is called "sight reading".

Unfortunately, sight reading has been shown (by 30 years of research) to be a failed method - generally, sight readers achieve a reading vocabulary of 5000-8000 words, mostly of 3 and 4 letter words. An average workplace requires approximately 28,000 words.

Phonics, and Phonics Syllable, teach people how to "sound out" smaller words, and then progressively sound out multi-syllable words, with the aim of matching the "sounded word" to a word they have heard before. This is called "decoding".

All our systems are built around Phonics, explaining to students how the letters create sounds, and letter combinations also make sounds (called digraphs) which form the words which we speak. For adults, trying to deal with multi-syllable words, we have developed Phonics Syllable, which teaches how to "sound" words based on their syllables.

Helping Adults Teach Themselves
Adults who cannot read find it extremely difficult to improve their reading. There are millions of literacy pages on the internet, and thousands of books, but these are totally useless for a person who cannot read.

In this respect, we use multimedia and video to help adults to gain a basic reading knowledge, giving them the TECHNIQUE of phonic decoding (sounding out) and from there, they can develop their skills rapidly.

More than 97% of the language can be decoded using phonics - if we give people the ability to decode, we unlock a rapid expansion of vocabulary and increased comprehension.

Research by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) shows that Fantastic Phonics produces a reading improvement of some 485%.