Author Phyllis Herzog is a Seattle School District special education teacher who now trains teachers all over the world how to use her well-regarded visual cueing system PhonicsQ to help students improve their reading, spelling and pronunciation skills.

Her experiences as a teacher for 25 years in self-contained and resource room classes in both public and private schools and as an individual tutor for children and adults were the catalyst for the development of PhonicsQ.

5th Grade Learning Resource Room

The program was developed in a Seattle School District K-5 Resource Room over three years with a culturally diverse group of special education students and ESL and ELL students.

Ms. Herzog received her B.S. and M.S. in Special Education at the University of Michigan and Hunter College respectively, and continued her education with Slingerland training (an Orton-Gillingham approach), ESL courses and a practicum in the ELL program of the University of California at Berkeley. more

Ruth Winter, illustrator of PhonicsQ, currently teaches art K-5 and recently completed her Master of Education with an ELL emphasis.

She studied art, languages and education at the University of Oslo, Norway and the University of Washington prior to receiving her B.A. in Art Education. Winter has taught high school art, reading and writing and formerly operated a school publishing center where she published over 2,000 books written by elementary school children.