Lorna Simmons is a former special education teacher and author of Saxon Phonics and Spelling. Combining her years of formal training and classroom experience with her personal struggles to guide her own son to reading success, Lorna developed an immersive spelling and phonics program that has since helped over four million readers in all fifty states experience reading success. Lorna continues to work with schools to find ways to make the lessons more accommodating to the needs of teachers.