
Mother of dyslexic child gives back to struggling readers in St. Joseph
Occasionally when a parent helps their struggling child learn to read, a dyslexia advocate is born. Certainly this is the case with Fundamental Learning Center co-founders Gretchen Andeel and Jeanine Phillips, who worked to remediate their own children’s reading, writing and spelling skills before establishing FLC in 2000. Dana McDowell of St. Joseph, Missouri, has a similar tale, with a flair of drama and fate that gives it the feel of a movie script. At the end of a long jo