“Unlocking the Secrets of Literacy.” Miami Times

According to MDCPS, over 40% of students who attend public school in Miami-Dade read below grade level. Despite this, many children with learning disabilities, particularly ones of color, struggle to get the help they need.

The Lucy Project is helping to turn this statistic around.

“I feel like this is my calling,” said The Lucy Project’s chief executive, Sandra Bermudez.

Bermudez started the nonprofit in 2020. The organization is named after Bermudez’s daughter, Lucy Sellinger Bermudez, who was diagnosed with and remediated for dyslexia when she was in elementary school. Although Lucy is now a rising junior in high school and reads two grades above her grade level, the road to success was not easy.

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