Reading Changes Lives
Cascade Reading was founded on the principle that reading is fundamental to positive educational and professional outcomes.
Our vision is for a world filled with more people reading, learning, and expressing their talents. A world where more human potential is realized, and where better reading leads to better understanding.
Cascade Changes Reading
Cascade’s format visualizes sentence structure, cueing readers to better understand the meaning in sentences. This format reveals structure without requiring a deep knowledge of syntax. Learn how the Cascade format is structured to improve comprehension.
See the Research
Cascade Reading is committed to research with an emphasis on controlled studies of the impact of the Cascade format on reading comprehension. Research has been, and will always be at the forefront of our work.
Leadership with broad experience
and a common passion
This diverse team of professionals has come together to
change the world of reading
Co-founder
Co-founder
Founder or co-founder of 8 companies at the intersection of Technology, Marketing, and Accessibility. Awarded the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year and Minneapolis/St Paul Magazine’s “Best Brains”. Dad to two college girls who are the loves of his life. Determined to change the world before he leaves it. MBA, University of St Thomas.
Chief Scientist
Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories, now part of the Yale
Child Study Center, for 20+ years. Ph.D in Cognitive Psychology, University of Pittsburgh; M.Sc., Computational Linguistics, Carnegie Mellon. Expertise in memory and language processes that support comprehension. Taught high school English/History for 5 years. Parent to 4 girls, one with autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and dyscalculia. Driven by a desire to help every child reach his or her full potential.
CTO
Serial tech leader growing large ideas into valuable technology businesses. CTO of EBureau, acquired by Transunion, and CTO of RiskWise, acquired by LexisNexis. Committed to ensuring every reader and learner can have access to great reading technology.
Director of Research
Data scientist and reading psychologist with extensive experience in Bayesian inference and machine learning methods. Ph.D.; M.Sc. in Educational Psychology and B.A. in Linguistics from University of Illinois. Affiliated Lecturer at University of Illinois, teaching language development to future teachers. Research expertise in comprehension failure and the role of context and working memory during reading.
Director, Sales and Business Development
Reading Changes Lives,
Cascade Changes Reading!
Join us as we introduce Cascade as the way to both improve comprehension and increase your joy of reading. We will keep you posted on all relevant news.
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Welcome to Cascade Reading!
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