Dyslexia Training Institute operates a training and remediation center at 7424 Jackson Drive, Suite 1B, in San Carlos, San Diego, founded in 2008 by Dr. Kelli Sandman-Hurley as the first organization to offer online certification courses in the Orton-Gillingham approach and dyslexia advocacy. Dr. Sandman-Hurley holds a doctorate in literacy with a specialization in dyslexia from San Diego State University and the University of San Diego, an MA in linguistics from SDSU, and a TESOL certificate from UC San Diego, credentials that anchor the institute's instructional authority in the 92119 corridor near Lake Murray. San Carlos's family-residential base near Cowles Mountain and the Navajo Road school corridor generates referral traffic from parents navigating IEP and 504 Plan processes, and the same Jackson Drive office strip serves early-childhood education families at Grow Smart Children's Academy where reading-readiness screening often identifies students for intervention. The San Carlos office provides one-on-one remediation and tutoring in reading, writing, spelling, and critical-thinking skills using research-based methods including Structured Word Inquiry, the Orton-Gillingham approach, Lindamood-Bell programs, and Read Naturally, with each student's instruction customized to their current skill level and diagnostic reading-assessment results. The institute's online course catalog trains educators, parents, administrators, advocates, psychologists, and speech-language pathologists, and a partnership with the University of San Diego allows students to earn graduate credit through the WASC-accredited institution for courses applied toward educator certification, salary enhancement, or degree-program transfer. The Dyslexia Certificate Program runs a supervised practicum requiring a minimum of 45 tutoring lessons with a diagnosed or at-risk student, graded through recorded sessions and mentor feedback that carries four graduate-level credit hours. Special education advocacy services help families build documentation for school-district accommodations, and the same San Carlos education network includes specialized K-12 instruction at Springall Academy K-12 for students whose learning profiles require smaller class ratios and individualized pacing. The institute's book, Dyslexia Advocate by Dr. Sandman-Hurley, walks parents through IEP document creation and meeting preparation, extending the clinical practice into a published resource with a national readership.