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As a child, Bill Allen experienced great difficulty in learning to read and struggled to be successful in school. He worked hard to earn his BBA from Georgia State University. Facing continued learning difficulties in his adult years, Bill moved through 42 different jobs in 20 years, always moving on when his dyslexic reading and writing limitations produced overwhelming stress as he advanced in a job. In his 40s, Bill learned how to solve his own learning and reading difficulties with the techniques of a popular and successful learning program of the time. He then began to tutor children and developed tools to empower them to learn to read.

During the next 8 years, Bill personally tutored more than 150 children. They and their parents traveled - often great distances - to work intensively with Bill for five days, one child at a time. The program he used were costly and required months of lengthy follow up at home. Therefore, the program’s results were available only to those who could afford it.

Intuitively, Bill knew that an easier and more cost effective way had to be created to help every child who has difficulty learning to read - and he was committed to finding the solution to this dilemma. Bill’s creative, dyslexic mind went to work solving this problem and designing multiple solutions.

Ultimately, "The Learning to Read Program" was created so that every family could stay home and teach their children to read. Bill, it has been said, has unlocked the code and, plainly, he can give you (even if you’re a parent yearning for help for your struggling child) the keys you need to enable your own child!


Bill and I will discuss his personal history, the challenges he has had, how he developed his company and the successes his program has had.

DJ Gregory is a great guy. I had the oportunity to meet him a few weeks back and his witty story telling is wonderful. I have also had the opportunity to read his book about his year on the PGA tour. This is a wonderful book about the game of Golf and the athleets DJ walked with. DJ actually did something on the PGA tour that not other athleet has done. He walked every round of every match in the 2008 season. That's over 900 miles in 47 weeks. While that walk would be quite an accomplishment for anyone DJ did this walk with CP.

I looke forward to talkeing with DJ tomorrow night. We'll discuss the challenge from start to finish and what he's doing now. Come join us at 8:30 PM Tuesday Night July 21, 2009.

Noreen Scott, M.A., P.T.
Noreen graduated from New York University’s Physical Therapy School in 1988. She later returned to New York University to obtain her Masters degree in Pathokinesiology, which she completed in 1995. She has since had various experiences working with the multiple handicapped, developmentally disabled and neurologically impaired.

Noreen began her career working with the profoundly mentally handicapped and developmentally disabled at a New York State Developmental Center in Melville, New York. She acquired her acute care experience at Montefiore Hospital, Bronx N.Y., working in the neonatal intensive care unit, pediatric inpatient units and pediatric outpatient clinic.



Noreen relocated to New Jersey and was promoted to Physical Therapy Clinical Specialist of Neurology at The Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation were she began working as a home care Therapist treating pediatric patients exclusively in 1995 after having her first child.


Noreen has attended multiple continuing education courses covering NDT, Myofascial Release, Sensory Integration and various courses on developmental therapy approaches and the use of the TheraSuit™ and the Universal Exercise Unit by Izabela Koscielny.



Currently Noreen lives in Dacula, Georgia where she formed Tender Ones Therapy Services, Inc. and has purchased the FDA-approved TheraSuit™ and the Universal Exercise Unit.


Tender Ones Therapy Services, Inc. now offers two and three week intensive therapy programs.

Noreen and I will be talking about the intensive program Haley just finished and possibly touch on a few other topics such as Rhizatomy and HBOT

Jared N Miller, a long time business developer, marketing consultant and philanthropist, is a former partner of The Incubator Group, a private equity firm based in his home town of Nashville, TN. He believes in the power of “ubuntu” and has committed his life to perpetuating the philosophy that we are all interconnected and not fully human alone. We were created for community.

Miller is the founder and President of KEZA, a non-profit “People Inspired Fashion” consulting agency. KEZA helps develop women’s cooperatives in Africa by turning them into sustainable and profitable businesses for the women that own them. Miller says, “The women of Africa are just as capable of running a successful business and creating luxury fashion products as the best fashion companies in Milan”. His first success is BURANGA Women’s Cooperative, currently creating the KEZA beaded jewelry seen in such magazines as “O”, and featured in high end boutiques across the US.

He is also the creator of Ubuntu Revolution, an “African Gender Equality Movement” of media, culture and sports. The purpose of the movement is to target the male role in gender disparity and combat violence and oppression towards women and girls. “It is time we get to the root of gender based violence; and that is the men that are carrying it out. And we must inspire them to change their ways, not demand it”, says Miller. He is currently working with a number of gender equality focused organizations and individuals to implement the program in East Africa.

On top of all this Jared has dyslexia. In this Friday’s interview at 8:00 AM ET we’ll be discussing how Jared went from a dyslexic kid with all the problems that are associated with dyslexia to the CEO of this world changing organization.

Before his son Samuel was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, photojournalist Dan Habib rarely thought about the inclusion of people with disabilities. Now he thinks about inclusion every day. Shot and produced over four years, Habib's award-winning documentary film, Including Samuel, honestly chronicles the Habib family's efforts to include Samuel in every facet of their lives. The film also features four other families with varied inclusion experiences, plus interviews with dozens of teachers, young people, parents and disability rights experts.

Including Samuel has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, Good Morning America NOW and in the Washington Post and the Boston Globe. Exceptional Parent magazine said “Including Samuel is a must see film.” The film won the Positive Images in Media award from TASH, an international group committed to the full inclusion of people with disabilities. The film was also screened at the Sprout Film Festival at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC) and named “Best Documentary” at the Somewhat North of Boston Film Festival.

The Including Samuel Project is part of the Institute on Disability/UCED, a non-profit 501(c)3 organization at the University of New Hampshire. The project’s mission is to build more inclusive schools and communities through curriculum, training, and outreach.

Including Samuel was edited by Rikk Desgres of Pinehurst Pictures and Sound.




Dan and I will be discussing inclusion and the impacts his movie has had in places it has been viewed.