About

Hello, my name is Marta Fischer and this is an important part of my world.

I share my home with a very busy, Shih Tzu named Annabelle Squeak,  who occasionally challenges me for the supremacy of my home.  

I have two sons, two amazing granddaughters and a remarkable daughter in law. 
I am a widow. 

The story of me teaching struggling readers begins with the story of my Super-Hero older brother, Mike.  
Mike was brilliant.  He was talented and creative and so many things wonderful.  But, Mike couldn't read.  He had severe dyslexia.  He struggled to read his entire life.  

Way back in the 1990's, my principal brought a program into my first grade classroom and told me that she wanted me to learn it and put it in my classroom.  That program was the Lindamood Bell LiPS program.  I thought she was crazy.  But, because she was my boss and I truly loved and respected her I learned that program and used it in the classroom.  My first grade students began to read earlier and more successfully. And, I began to tutor after school and in the summers.

I shared the Lindamood Bell LiPS program with my brother Mike.  Together we researched it and made plans for him to go to California one summer to go through the clinical program.  Mike died in January before the summer he was planning to go to the Lindamood Bell Clinic in California.
My heart broke and my passion cemented.  No one should ever have to struggle to be the best version of themselves!

After my husband died, I searched for focus and purpose.  I substituted at the high school in a reading intervention class.  I was shocked and got a whole new education about the realities of struggling readers at the high school level.  That's when I went back to school to learn to teach Special Education.  

I am a certified EC-6 Teacher and a certified K-12 Special Education teacher.  I have taught Pre-Kinder through 12th grade in the classroom.
I am trained in LETRS, IMSE Orton Gillingham, Lindamood Bell Lips, Visualizing Verbalizing, Seeing Stars, Really Great Reading, Texas Reading Academies and many other reading programs.  

Teaching people to read is one of my greatest passions.


A former student, I taught and tutored, graduated with a double major from A&M University. He learned to read with the The Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program for Reading, Spelling and Speech (LiPS) and the Nancy Bell Language Comprehension Program, Visualizing and Verbalizing. 
He became a successful, independent, learner for a lifetime, which is what I wish for all my students to become. I believe in my students and I believe they will become lifetime, successful, independent learners.