Langsford is the first chapter in your student’s new story

Your school cares about your child and wants to help them succeed. The problem is they have lots of students who need help, and sometimes a child may need help beyond what the school can offer. 

Langsford isn’t a replacement for classroom instruction. We collaborate with our students’ schools the whole way to ensure your child gets the comprehensive, personalized help they deserve.

In short, Langsford will help your child catch up with their fundamentals so they can then keep up with the instruction your school provides.

Absolutely! We’re able to do everything online that we’d do in person, including our research-backed teaching methods, interactive learning activities, and multi-sensory instruction. Plus, your student will be too busy having fun to realize they’re actually learning.

We test all of our students at the beginning, throughout and at the end of their time at Langsford. The results data is clear—online is equally as effective as in person.

Our services begin with a comprehensive evaluation of your child’s strengths and challenges. From there, we put together a customized, step-by-step plan. As we work the plan together, we continually monitor progress and make adjustments along the way. 

Finally, we include a wrap-up assessment so you can see your child’s transformation. (Although you won’t need a piece of paper to notice the difference; you’ll see it in their attitude and behavior!)

Don’t worry—we handle all official instruction. You may have some tasks at home, such as reading assignments along the way. Our team will equip you with the tools you need. 

When asking parents about their experience with Langsford, many do not even remember having any role at home in the process. When your long, painful nights of doing homework become easy because you have a confident reader, it’s apparently easy to forget a few reading assignments along the way.

Until we understand your child’s unique strengths and challenges, we can’t predict their plan length. After their evaluation, we’ll be able to give a time estimate, and we’ll give you weekly updates so you’ll never be surprised by a change of plans.

While many parents are amazed to see how quickly their young learners improve, we move at the pace each student requires. Typically a student will take between 50 and 150 hours of instruction, but again, every student is different.

Nope! We have a no-strings-attached policy. We don’t require contracts, and you can cancel services at any time without penalty.

There isn’t a one-size-fits-all answer to this question because we don’t provide one-size-fits-all programs. Your investment in the program will be hourly on a no-strings-attached policy (you can stop at any time). How much instruction your child receives will be based on their exact needs. Typically a student needs between 50 and 150 hours of instruction, but again, every student is different.

To properly address the question, you must consider the expensive alternatives of other programs or the cost of inaction.

Tutoring will often not help a child catch up—a child who needs a tutor today will often fall further behind because of an undiagnosed underlying difficulty. They may always need a tutor, which is a large investment.

Many parents who have evaluated Langsford vs. specialist schools find that these programs are much more expensive, less effective and also remove the child from their established school community. 

Finally, many Langsford parents have come back around to say the best way to think of this is an investment. Just recently a parent told us his investment into Langsford helped his child not only catch up, but go on to get an academic scholarship to college, which would have never been possible had he not become the confident reader he is today. 

Many reading programs have some evidence-based elements, but they usually operate with only one or two of the Science of Reading’s five pillars (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension). These programs focus on phonics and sometimes phonemic awareness, but also include material many children may already know. The program therefore spends much of the student’s time reviewing content the child already knows instead of acting on the underlying problem. 

Langsford implements all five pillars of the Science of Reading. This approach is grounded in a large research portfolio of nationally recognized studies, showcasing and utilizing the statistical significance of education tactics and processes. 

We use adaptive instruction combined with personalized learning to help students improve their silent reading fluency. As a Science of Reading program, we use research-based practices (word repetition, scaffolding, and engagement, as examples), proven to help the student advance. Finally, Langsford is using differentiated instruction, addressing unique learning profiles, interests, and readiness levels of each student to optimize their learning outcomes in reading and beyond.