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Dcode Dyslexia

A simple and effective reading programme.
For parents and teachers of struggling students

About Us

Dcode demystifies reading for struggling students.

When the ability to read happens after a struggle, it is magical.

Teachers and parents struggle to make progress with dyslexic and struggling students because they can’t find an effective reading programme that is simple to teach and fun to engage with.

That’s why we created Dcode.

A new approach

Dcode combines the world-renowned Orton-Gillingham structured literacy approach with colour-coded phonics.

It’s an engaging and interactive reading programme to turn struggling students into confident readers.

With a step-by-step reading programme that’s easy to teach, you will experience:

Teaching struggling readers is hard

Whether you’re a teacher or a parent, you’ve probably tried lots of reading programmes but made little progress, which is soul-destroying when a child’s basic literacy is at stake.

As a teacher, it’s disheartening when dyslexia and literacy issues in your school continue to grow year on year.

And if you’re a parent, you worry every day because your child’s confidence and happiness is suffering.

We believe that parents and teachers deserve a simple, effective, and engaging way to teach struggling readers.

A brand-new approach for teaching struggling students to read.

A simple structured literacy reading system combined with colour-coded phonics.

Interactive, colourful lessons that are engaging for both student and teacher.

It's heart-breaking to watch a child struggle.

Picture of Mary Moran, creator & founder of Dcode  Dyslexia

Mary Moran, creator & founder of Dcode Dyslexia

Mary Moran was Orton/ Gillingham trained in the early 1980s. She has been teaching struggling readers and dyslexics for over forty years.

In 2022 she became a social entrepreneur after being awarded a place on Social Entrepreneur Irelands Impact programme.

Mary believes passionately that each child deserves the right to read. She educates teachers via in-person and online forums in how to teach through structured literacy.

She believes passionately that each child deserves the right to read. She educates teachers via in-person and online forums in how to teach through structured literacy.

She is the creator of the structured literacy programme “Dcode”. Dcode was designed for parents use. It is currently in well over 1/3 of Irish schools and is being used successfully by parents to teach their own children to read and spell.

Dcode is informed by the unique teaching style that Mary developed over the course of her career.

Having achieved consistent success with thousands of struggling readers under her tuition, Mary packaged her methodology into a reading programme that is:

so that every child can become a happy and confident reader.

It will work for you too.

“I understand how desperate you feel when you’re responsible for a child who is struggling to read and nothing you do is making a difference.”

“That is why I created Dcode. Based on the Orton-Gillingham structured literacy approach, and informed by decades of success teaching dyslexic students, Dcode is a unique reading programme that has worked for me over and over again. Professionals I have worked with agree.”

“An excellent resource for
struggling children”

Dr. Saoirse Mac Cartaigh, Chartered Educational and Child Psychologist.

Learning to read is complicated

The words we speak are made up of individual sounds called phonemes. Dcode simplifies it.

We link sounds to letters to programme the brain to read in this way.

Finally, we recognise whole words by sight as we see sequences of letters in our minds.

Dcode simplifies it

Dcode uses colour to help the dyslexic brain remember the long vowel sounds and also to recognise soft C and G in words.

Dcode lessons are easy to teach and fun to engage with so that students remain engaged and active.

With each Dcode module, the strugglling student overxcomes a particular reading challenge  so they are motivated to  keep learning.

Getting started is simple

Buy the books

Invest in the Dcode reading programme one book at a time.

Watch the videos

Watch a short instructional video on how to take your student through each lesson.

Invest 15 mins / day

And celebaret as your strugglilng reader overcomes a new challenge at each step.

May Moran Says...

"We are absolutely thrilled to be collaborating with Louise and Paul! Their unwavering passion for educating every child, no matter where they are in the world, perfectly aligns with our mission to ensure each child learns to read.


Together, we believe we can make an even greater impact and help unlock the joy of reading for children everywhere."

You are welcome to talk to Louise about Dcode Dyslexia in the first instance.