Company Profile
Learning Ally
Company Overview
Learning AllyTM is a sixty year old organization dedicated to serving people who ”learn differently,” helping them to understand their individual learning strengths and providing the educational tools, content and training needed to allow them achieve their full potential. The organization has recently completed a comprehensive strategic review, which highlighted several substantial growth opportunities to better realize its mission. Among these was the significant gap between the proportion of the population that is known to have difficulties with printed educational materials and the number of people who are aware of the tremendous success achieved by people who have used Learning Ally’s products and services. In parallel, improvements in technology, and the restructuring of the organization to better utilize its assets have increased its opportunities to sell products and services to parents, students and educators.
Learning Ally’s primary offerings include:
• Specially formatted audio versions of textbooks, which include a range of high-value features for people with learning differences, such as descriptions of pictures and figures that accompany text-based narrative content
• Professional development training for teachers, to help them learn how to incorporate non-printed materials into their lesson plans and classroom environments
• Education program design and implementation for state and local education departments, to help ensure effective administration of tools and training to achieve superior educational outcomes for their students with learning differences
• Community support tools for teachers, parents and students
• Production of audio versions of other commercial educational materials, such as standardized tests
• Resale of hardware and software solutions for distribution and playback of audio and audio/visual materials
Learning Ally has historically generated revenue from five distinct sources:
1) Large custom programs to states and school districts, typically including an integrated bundle of content, training and program administration support
2) Individual schools that have identified students who they believe can benefit from alternative instructional materials
3) Parents and students who have identified their own need for alternative materials, who purchase subscriptions to a content library
4) Federal and state grants
5) Philanthropic support, helping to enable Learning Ally to provide memberships to schools and individuals that are not able to afford services
Benefits
Learning Ally offers a comprehensive benefits program to all eligible employees. Employees are eligible to enroll in most plans on the 1st of the month following date of employment, or annully during the open enrollment period.