Susan Homan is a Professor of Literacy at the University of South Florida in Tampa.  Her areas of expertise include adolescent struggling readers, emergent literacy, and diagnosis.  She has co-authored several books and published over 30 articles in the literacy education field.  She is the Co-director of the Accelerated Literacy Learning Program (ALL), which she helped develop in 1991.  Together with Dr. James King, she now collaborates with 11 school districts in the state of Florida implementing the ALL program.  Each year, across the state of Florida, over 2000 at-risk children are taught to read by teacher’s trained in the ALL program.  Most recently she has been researching the relationship between music, singing, and elementary, middle and high school struggling readers.

The links below provide research abstracts summarizing the results of the most current studies utilizing the singing software with struggling readers.

Abstracts:

Abstract I Biggs-Homan Reading Study

Abstract II Elementary Study

Abstract III Grades 4-12