Dyslexic brain scientist releases LipLetter Land™, a groundbreaking early literacy app for children 3 to 6 years old, and is transforming how young learners build foundational reading skills. Created by esteemed neuropsychologist Dr. Tim Conway, a leader in dyslexia research and literacy development, the app blends engaging, science-backed activities with a 6-way neurodevelopmental multisensory learning approach proven to strengthen early literacy skills.
How LipLetter Land™ Works
The app is built around a unique 6-way multisensory learning approach, designed to help children connect letters, sounds, and mouth movements—key to unlocking strong early literacy skills.
- Auditory & Visual – Accurately hearing spoken sounds, and seeing animated mouth movies or their own mouth moving for each sound.
- Tactile & Kinesthetic – Feeling & explicitly controlling different parts of learners’ mouth’s unique movements that create all letter sounds.
- Fun Names for Alphabet Letters & Sounds – Learning that all sounds also have fun names (e.g., ‘Lip Popper’ for b, ‘Tongue Tapper’ for d), and then linking each sound to its letter. This may seem odd compared to standard memorization of letters and sounds, but new learning is enhanced by the letter – sound – name & other specific details – memorizing is not needed.
What’s the Science Behind LipLetter Land™
Dr. Conway, who has dedicated his career to studying and addressing the root causes of illiteracy & dyslexia, developed LipLetter Land™ as an interactive, gamified learning tool that provides a peer-reviewed, evidence-based method in an interactive & fun app. This app helps teachers or parents guide young children to master learning alphabet letters, their sounds, their unique mouth movements and early reading skills.
Dr Conway’s decades of peer-reviewed, collaborative research, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), led to the development of the NOW! Foundations for Speech, Language, Reading, and Spelling® program. This neurodevelopmental program is delivered online by www.NOWPrograms.com and is internationally known for delivering “life changing” gains in literacy for thousands of children, teens and even adults – successfully closing the gaps and empowering strong literacy skills and academic success, including remediating dyslexia.
LipLetter Land™ provides the 1st stage of this proven methodology in a high fidelity, easily accessible app. The app also offers young learners an interactive experience that enhances early literacy development to actually prevent common early reading struggles before they start. LipLetter Land™ is the first early literacy app whose method has solid scientific evidence of preventing struggles with learning letters and their sounds, as well as building strong spelling and reading skills – early empowerment before children fall behind in reading skills is the hallmark of LipLetter Land™.
By training these powerful multi-sensory learning pathways, LipLetter Land™ helps prevent common letter reversals, such as mixing the sounds for letter b’s and d’s. By teaching a child the unique and specific mouth movements for each letter’s sounds, children learn sensory-based reasoning, ie “oh my lips pop open for the letter b!”
What Sets LipLetter Land™Apart?
Unlike traditional memorization techniques or “Sound Walls,” LipLetter Land™ is based on the Science of Reading, Piagetian concrete-before-abstract learning, and evidence-based, 6-way multisensory instruction. This provides a deeper and longer lasting learning experience for young readers.
LipLetter Land™ is designed for universal accessibility, ensuring families, educators, and schools can integrate it into early literacy programs at an affordable cost:
- Schools: As low as $0.50 per student per month
- Parents, Tutors, Speech Therapists, and Child Development Specialists: As low as $1 per child per month
- 14-Day Free Trial: Encouraging parents and educators to explore the app’s benefits firsthand
Empowering Early Readers Through Science
“Strong literacy skills empower every child for academic success,” said Dr. Tim Conway, neuropsychologist and NICHD & VA RR&D published researcher. “LipLetter Land™ is grounded in decades of scientific research and designed by the research scientists, educators and brain science professionals to help children develop essential reading skills, even before they enter school. By providing fun, interactive and evidence-based learning experiences that are well-grounded in developmental brain science and the Science of Reading, we are giving children & their teachers the tools they need for building lifelong literacy success.”
Start Your Literacy Journey Today
LipLetter Land™ is now available for parents, educators, and schools looking to support early literacy development. To learn more or start a free trial, visit www.LipLetterLand.com
About Dr. Tim Conway
Dr. Tim Conway is an empowered Dyslexic who is trained in lifespan neuropsychology and peer-review published in Neurorehabilitation, Neurodevelopmental Disorders assessment & treatment and Neuroimaging. Since the age of 19 he has been training and specializing in literacy and dyslexia research, clinical and edtech delivery of services. As a dyslexic man and father of two children with dyslexia, he brings both personal insight and professional expertise to his work. His NICHD funded research collaborations have led to the development of evidence-based literacy & Dyslexia remediation programs that have successfully helped thousands of children, teens and adults too. Dr. Conway is dedicated to making early literacy tools affordable, accessible, and effective for all children around the world. LipLetter Land™ is the first of dozens of apps that Dr Conway and his edtech company NOW! Programs® team will be releasing.
