What is Amira Learning?
- Founders: Mark Angel (CEO) and Pete Jungwirth (CTO)
- Launch: 2017
- Use Cases: Early literacy support, oral reading fluency assessment, dyslexia risk screening, classroom differentiation, and at-home tutoring
- Technology: AI-driven children’s speech recognition and reading-science engine, enhanced with advanced language models for comprehension support
Amira Learning is an AI-powered, neuroscience-based reading solution with the purpose of accelerating literacy growth while supporting differentiated instruction. The Amira Reading Suite integrates authentic, real-time assessment, personalized tutoring, and instructional planning, all while operating within a school's existing literacy curriculum. As students read aloud, It uses natural language processing (NLP) and advanced speech recognition to determine fluency and reading challenges. Amira conducts continuous scoring on students as they read aloud, layering on targeted, individualized "micro-interventions," as needed. Teachers receive detailed dashboards to yield actionable insights and an intuitive AI-powered lesson planner, making teachers more effective at adapting instruction to close reading gaps.
Research on Amira Learning (independent-impact studies) indicates that students using Amira can achieve significantly faster reading growth—in a single school year, on average seven additional weeks of reading development—while needing only 30 minutes or less of practice each week. Amira is trusted by millions of students and thousands of schools around the world—students use Amira for remediation and enrichment, all within the same program with a scalable model.
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