Christine James, an outdoor girl from Wyoming, quickly became a world traveler after moving to Hawaii for college.  After graduating with an Associates in Science as a Physical Therapy Assistant, she met her husband. That set both of their lives on an adventure of moving and growing their family. Living in four different states and one foreign country, Christine’s love and curiosity for nature has been filled with opportunities.  As a military spouse and moving every three years, her career has constantly changed, yet she has given physical therapy assistance to so many people across the country. She has worked at Veterans Affairs, hospital settings, outpatient settings, and a Rehab Hospital. Being stationed in Hawaii twice, Christine achieved her Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology. Helping people regain their physical abilities has always been a passion of hers. 

Living overseas in Japan led to a completely different path for Christine. She dove into her family and became a homeschooling mom to her four beautiful children. As she took steps toward putting God and family first, Christine’s life turned into something she never expected. She is currently tutoring in her homeschooling co-op, and enjoys having all the children in class share the passion of learning.

Christine was loving and enjoying the uniqueness of each of her children. This past year, she discovered one daughter struggling with reading. Through the amazing reconnection of a hometown friend, she was introduced to Vision Reading Academy, which led to her daughter building her confidence in reading and self-esteem. Vision Reading Academy has opened a door for Christine to continue her passion to help people. Christine is blessed and excited to strengthen and share the joy of reading with children. 

Kennessa Malan has spent 15 years as a professional vocal coach. She graduated at the top of her class from Brigham Young University – Hawaii in 2005 with her bachelor’s degree in Vocal Study. She immediately set up her music studio and began her teaching and coaching career. When she met and married her husband and became a mother to his 5 yr old daughter, Kennessa scaled back to part-time as she prioritized her new role as a wife and mother. She and her husband, Joshua, added 5 more children to their family. She still found time to teach and coach students and worked at a local performing arts studio as their music director for their Music/Dance/Theater classes. Kennessa is an avid reader who deeply loves reading books with her 5 homeschooled kids. When one of her daughter’s was struggling with reading she dove in to learn all she could to help her daughter. That’s when she found Vision Reading Academy. Her daughter made such wonderful progress and Kennessa saw the light back in her daughter’s eyes! Understanding the great need for the Vision Reading Academy program to unlock the ability for others to see accurately and therefore be able to read and comprehend, which would unlock a whole new world, just as it did for her daughter, Kennessa decided to put her love of working with children and teenagers to a new coaching career.

In her free time Kennessa loves to read all genres that support all her passions – from natural health and wellness, to gardening, to exercise, to personal development, to classical fiction, historical fiction and a good romance story or two, you will also find her gardening in her yard or someone else’s, playing at a park with her kids, hitting the gym, hiking to the top of a mountain, traveling, doing arts/crafts, baking or meditating and journaling. Kennessa’s passion to help others unlock their potential and have the tools and skillset to do so independently of her makes her a wonderful coach with Vision Reading Academy.  

Leah Stine is a homeschooling mom of three, life-long learner, homesteader in the making, and writer. She has her Bachelor’s degree in Business Management and has been a copywriter for over eight years.  She is the author of A Boy and His Butterfly and is devoted to self-improvement, inspiring others, and creating a life that balances her desire to help others and create a happy home for her family.

When her middle son, who she thought was just a struggling reader like her oldest, couldn’t read when starting 5^th grade, she knew there was a problem. She went to the ophthalmologist to get his eyes checked and it was determined that there were no issues. She spoke with reading tutors and researched a lot of reading programs. After trying a couple of them, she realized there had to be an underlying issue. Speaking to her homeschooling coach was the turning point for him. She recommended talking to Vision Reading Academy for an evaluation. Five minutes into the evaluation and the problem puzzle pieces were finally coming together!

He immediately started with Vision Reading Academy and within 6 months went from a Kindergarten reading level to a 5^th grade reading level. It has made such a huge impact on their family that Leah is determined to help other families who can’t figure out why their child is having issues reading. She understands the struggles for the child, the struggles for the parents who feel like they did something wrong, and the support needed to keep moving forward and pushing until the issue is determined and resolved. Leah appreciates the moment when your child turns to you and says, “It felt really good to be able to read my own birthday cards this year!”

Nicole lives out in rural Idaho, where she homeschools 5 kiddos and enjoys the country life. Her family travels together all over and enjoys the rodeo life and anything outdoors. She has loved being close to her kids, and having the opportunity to teach them at home and help them develop their strengths and a love for learning.

One of her daughters did not pick up reading as the other kids have. She noticed things were much harder for her, and math became very difficult also. After having taught several other kids to read easily she knew there must be more to what was going on. She took her daughter to see an ophthalmologist several times to get her eyes checked and was told they were perfect and she had no vision issues. They took her to a specialist where at 8 years old she was diagnosed with severe dyslexia & dyscalculia. For several years, with lots of tutoring, and long stressful days, her daughter finally learned to read. But it was not fun, and she still had lots of learning issues. They were told she would need a scribe probably, and writing and cognitive things were not going to happen. Her mama heart was broken.

Nicole did not stop researching, learning, and talking to anyone and everyone she could about options, help, programs, anything she could that might help her daughter. Then.. a friend told her about Krystle and  her program at Vision Reading Academy. She was shocked. WHY in over 5 years of searching for new things and talking to people had no one mentioned something about other areas of the body affecting the eyes and reading? How is this not more well known? She text Coach K immediately and got her daughter an evaluation. Her prayers were answered. It was confirmed she had an issue with muscles that caused her eyes to be different when reading, and her mama gut had been right all along. There was more to her daughter’s story.. she just needed to find the answers.

They started the program immediately… and within 6 months her reading had improved drastically. Her confidence started to soar, she was able to read road signs and labels in the store. She was able to read scriptures when called on in church. She was able to start reading chapter books finally for the first time.

Now a year later, Nicole is excited to give the gift that was given to her daughter, to other children that need someone to show them they are so smart. They are capable and there is a whole new world waiting for them to be viewed. She believes everyone deserves the gift of reading, and she will never stop talking about how much dyslexia is misdiagnosed due to muscles causing muscles around the eyes to be affected not being educated about enough. She is excited to join Vision Reading Academy and be apart of change for children and people everywhere.