LumiraWho we are
The Lumira Reads team brings together two kinds of expertise that rarely sit in the same room: educators who have spent years teaching children to read, including children for whom reading does not come easily, and technologists who build the kind of software that has to work reliably for a child mid-lesson, not just in a demo. Every feature in Lumira passes through both lenses — is it grounded in how children actually learn to read, and does it hold up in the messy reality of a real reading session.
Why we built Lumira
Lumira started with two sons with dyslexia and a parent living in a different country from them — a shaky video call, guessing which word on the page they were stuck on, and both sides getting frustrated before they had really started. That gap between wanting to help and not being in the room is the reason Lumira exists.
What began as one family's workaround became a shared project once the wider team — the educationalists and technologists who now make up Lumira Reads — recognised the same gap in their own classrooms and families. Distance, timetables, and under-resourced support should not decide whether a struggling reader gets the practice they need.
What we believe
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Reading difficulty is not a character flaw
Dyslexia is a difference in how the brain maps sounds to letters. It has nothing to do with intelligence or effort, and it responds well to the right kind of teaching.
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Evidence over guesswork
Lumira's curriculum is synthesised from structured literacy frameworks across the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, Kenya and the Philippines — the same evidence base behind the Science of Reading movement.
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Built for the reader in front of you
Dyslexia-friendly typography, generous spacing, high-contrast and reduced-motion modes, and one thing on screen at a time — designed with the people who will actually use it, not around them.
You can read more about the approach behind the curriculum on the reading levels page, what Lumira looks like day to day on how it works, or jump straight into a phonics pattern a child you know is stuck on.