Russell Van Brocklen

Russell Van Brocklen is a New York State Senate–funded dyslexia researcher and the founder of DyslexiaClasses.com, where he has spent over a decade helping students transform from hesitant writers into confident communicators.

His groundbreaking approach, The Writing Method, was developed by combining the brain research from Overcoming Dyslexia by Dr. Sally Shaywitz with the practical classroom strategies from Strategies for Struggling Writers by James Collins. This blend of neuroscience and pedagogy became the foundation for his research, later owned by the SUNY Research Foundation.

Russell’s students—many diagnosed with dyslexia or other language-based learning differences—have achieved remarkable progress, often improving their writing by seven to eight grade levels in a single academic year.

He has presented his work at the Everyone Reading Conference in Manhattan (2006, 2014–2019) and the Learning Disability Association of New Jersey Conference (2018), sharing his mission to make literacy instruction brain-aligned, empowering, and practical.