Dr. Louis Gates

Dr. Louis (Lou) Gates, an educational consultant to schools and school districts, provides in-service opportunities that showcase the elegance of the English letter-sound system. He then guides teachers in the application of this elegant code to help dispel illiteracy, to assist dyslexic learners, and to support student comprehension and its subset, vocabulary. Dr. Gates served as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, principal, school superintendent, and as a member of the faculties of four colleges and universities. He wrote numerous research and curriculum-related articles, which he published in a number of journals, such as The Reading Teacher, Instructor, Annals of Dyslexia, Reading Horizons, and Reading Improvement. He also folds his research and new discoveries into the book, The Elegant Code, which he wrote as lead author with invaluable input from Dr. Alicia Roberts Frank.