For Knopf, a Winter Park, Florida attorney, community extends beyond Central Florida boundaries with her passion project, the REED Charitable Foundation, a nonprofit organization created to empower dyslexics like her son Reed and to end global illiteracy by spreading the gospel of Orton-Gillingham, a direct, structured, multisensory approach to literacy education that has proven effective with struggling dyslexic readers, according to Understood.
“I am driven by a mother’s love and instinct to protect coupled with a passion for justice,” Knopf told Orlando Magazine.
More than 1,200 teacher and parents worldwide have received free or low-cost Orton-Gillingham training courtesy of RCF.
You can learn more about Knopf, also previously saluted by “A World of Difference: Embracing Neurodiversity” as a Difference Maker in this segment.