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Dr. Tim Conway & NOW! Programs® Launch LipLetter Land™: A 6-way Multisensory App Revolutionizing Early Literacy

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Dyslexic brain scientist releases LipLetter Land™, a groundbreaking early literacy app for children 3 to 6 years old, and is transforming how young learners build foundational reading skills. Created by esteemed neuropsychologist Dr. Tim Conway, a leader in dyslexia research and literacy development, the app blends engaging, science-backed activities with a 6-way neurodevelopmental multisensory learning approach proven to strengthen early literacy skills.

“Strong literacy skills empower every child for academic success.” –  Dr. Tim Conway

How LipLetter Land™ Works
The app is built around a unique 6-way multisensory learning approach, designed to help children connect letters, sounds, and mouth movements—key to unlocking strong early literacy skills.

Auditory & Visual – Accurately hearing spoken sounds, and seeing animated mouth movies or their own mouth moving for each sound.Tactile & Kinesthetic – Feeling & explicitly controlling different parts of learners’ mouth’s unique movements that create all letter sounds.Fun Names for Alphabet Letters & Sounds – Learning that all sounds also have fun names (e.g., ‘Lip Popper’ for b, ‘Tongue Tapper’ for d), and then linking each sound to its letter. This may seem odd compared to standard memorization of letters and sounds, but new learning is enhanced by the letter – sound – name & other specific details – memorizing is not needed.

What’s the Science Behind LipLetter Land™ 
Dr. Conway, who has dedicated his career to studying and addressing the root causes of illiteracy & dyslexia, developed LipLetter Land™ as an interactive, gamified learning tool that provides a peer-reviewed, evidence-based method in an interactive & fun app. This app helps teachers or parents guide young children to master learning alphabet letters, their sounds, their unique mouth movements and early reading skills.

Dr Conway’s decades of peer-reviewed, collaborative research, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), led to the development of the NOW! Foundations for Speech, Language, Reading, and Spelling® program. This neurodevelopmental program is delivered online by www.NOWPrograms.com and is internationally known for delivering “life changing” gains in literacy for thousands of children, teens and even adults – successfully closing the gaps and empowering strong literacy skills and academic success, including remediating dyslexia.

LipLetter Land™ provides the 1st stage of this proven methodology in a high fidelity, easily accessible app. The app also offers young learners an interactive experience that enhances early literacy development to actually prevent common early reading struggles before they start. LipLetter Land™ is the first early literacy app whose method has solid scientific evidence of preventing struggles with learning letters and their sounds, as well as building strong spelling and reading skills – early empowerment before children fall behind in reading skills is the hallmark of LipLetter Land™.

By training these powerful multi-sensory learning pathways, LipLetter Land™ helps prevent common letter reversals, such as mixing the sounds for letter b’s and d’s. By teaching a child the unique and specific mouth movements for each letter’s sounds, children learn sensory-based reasoning, ie “oh my lips pop open for the letter b!”

What Sets LipLetter Land™Apart?
Unlike traditional memorization techniques or “Sound Walls,” LipLetter Land™ is based on the Science of Reading, Piagetian concrete-before-abstract learning, and evidence-based, 6-way multisensory instruction. This provides a deeper and longer lasting learning experience for young readers.

LipLetter Land™ is designed for universal accessibility, ensuring families, educators, and schools can integrate it into early literacy programs at an affordable cost:

Schools: As low as $0.50 per student per monthParents, Tutors, Speech Therapists, and Child Development Specialists: As low as $1 per child per month14-Day Free Trial: Encouraging parents and educators to explore the app’s benefits firsthand

Empowering Early Readers Through Science
“Strong literacy skills empower every child for academic success,” said Dr. Tim Conway, neuropsychologist and NICHD & VA RR&D published researcher. “LipLetter Land™ is grounded in decades of scientific research and designed by the research scientists, educators and brain science professionals to help children develop essential reading skills, even before they enter school. By providing fun, interactive and evidence-based learning experiences that are well-grounded in developmental brain science and the Science of Reading, we are giving children & their teachers the tools they need for building lifelong literacy success.”

Start Your Literacy Journey Today
LipLetter Land™ is now available for parents, educators, and schools looking to support early literacy development. To learn more or start a free trial, visit www.LipLetterLand.com

About Dr. Tim Conway
Dr. Tim Conway is an empowered Dyslexic who is trained in lifespan neuropsychology and peer-review published in Neurorehabilitation, Neurodevelopmental Disorders assessment & treatment and Neuroimaging. Since the age of 19 he has been training and specializing in literacy and dyslexia research, clinical and edtech delivery of services. As a dyslexic man and father of two children with dyslexia, he brings both personal insight and professional expertise to his work. His NICHD funded research collaborations have led to the development of evidence-based literacy & Dyslexia remediation programs that have successfully helped thousands of children, teens and adults too. Dr. Conway is dedicated to making early literacy tools affordable, accessible, and effective for all children around the world. LipLetter Land™ is the first of dozens of apps that Dr Conway and his edtech company NOW! Programs® team will be releasing.

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Email: LLL@NOWprograms.com 

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Howard Hughes Holdings Set to Join S&P SmallCap 600

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NEW YORK, Oct. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HHH) will replace Arcosa Inc. (NYSE: ACA) in the S&P SmallCap 600 effective prior to the opening of trading on Wednesday, October 28. S&P 500 constituent CRH plc (NYSE: CRH) has acquired Arcosa in a deal that closed today, October 23.

Following is a summary of the changes that will take place prior to the open of trading on the effective date:

Effective Date

Index Name  

Action

Company Name

Ticker

GICS Sector

October 28, 2026

S&P SmallCap 600

Addition

Howard Hughes Holdings

HHH

Real Estate

October 28, 2026

S&P SmallCap 600

Deletion

Arcosa

ACA

Industrials

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S&P Dow Jones Indices is the largest global resource for essential index-based concepts, data and research, and home to iconic financial market indicators, such as the S&P 500® and the Dow Jones Industrial Average®. More assets are invested in products based on our indices than products based on indices from any other provider in the world. Since Charles Dow invented the first index in 1884, S&P DJI has been innovating and developing indices across the spectrum of asset classes helping to define the way investors measure and trade the markets.

S&P Dow Jones Indices is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies, and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/. 

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Chelsea FC announces multi-year sleeve partnership with Sokin, the business payments and FX platform

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Chelsea FC name fast-growing fintech platform as Principal Partner

LONDON, Oct. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Chelsea Football Club has today announced a multi-year partnership with Sokin, the embedded finance and payments company used by businesses worldwide. Sokin will be named a Principal Partner and Official Business Payments and FX Partner of Chelsea FC and Chelsea FC Women.

As a Principal Partner, Sokin will be represented on the sleeves of the Chelsea FC men’s, women’s and academy home, away, and third kits from the 2026/27 season.

The partnership brings together two ambitious London-headquartered organisations with worldwide reach – a club with millions of fans across the world and a fintech platform through which businesses move more than $11 billion a year. A club of Chelsea’s scale works in many currencies every day, with partners, competitions and supporters around the world, and needs a financial partner built to handle that.

Sokin gives finance teams business payments, multi-currency accounts, foreign exchange, checkout and treasury in one place, so they spend less time juggling banks and providers and keep more of what they move.

As Official Business Payments and FX Partner, Sokin will simplify how Chelsea FC sends, receives and manages money in the currencies the club operates in.

The Sokin logo will feature on the sleeve of the Chelsea shirt for the first time [when the men’s team host Tottenham Hotspur at Stamford Bridge on Saturday 24th October.]

Jason Gannon, President at Chelsea FC said:

“At Chelsea, we seek to partner with organisations that share our ambition and innovative mindset. Sokin’s expertise in business payments, and their focus on making both simpler for the businesses they serve, makes them a natural fit for the Club. We are pleased to welcome Sokin to the Chelsea family and look forward to working together in the years ahead.”

Vroon Modgill, CEO and founder at Sokin said:

“Chelsea plays on the biggest stage in world football, and its business runs in dozens of currencies. Sokin was built for that with regulated, multi-currency payments and foreign exchange for organisations that operate internationally. We’re proud to be the platform behind the business payments and FX of one of the most iconic teams in football. Sokin’s platform serves businesses in more than 170 countries. We’re thrilled to be partners for the season ahead. An organisation as sophisticated as Chelsea doesn’t leave its finances to chance.”

About Sokin

Sokin is the financial layer global business runs on. Businesses can transact, convert and hold money in 70+ currencies across 170+ countries. Some businesses use Sokin to manage global finance in-house. Others build it into their products to power financial experiences for their customers. Businesses move more than $9 billion a year on licenses Sokin holds in 36+ countries and infrastructure Sokin owns. Founded in 2019, Sokin has raised over $100 million from investors including Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and Prysm Capital.

About Chelsea Football Club

Chelsea Football Club is one of the biggest, most successful football clubs globally and our men’s team are reigning world champions, having won the four-yearly FIFA Club World Cup in 2025. Our women’s team, Chelsea Women, are also multiple trophy winners.

Founded in 1905, Chelsea is London’s most central football club, based at the iconic 40,000-capacity Stamford Bridge stadium. Nicknamed the Blues, the club lifted the Champions League for the first time in 2012 and domestically has won the Premier League five times, the FA Cup eight times, the Football League Cup five times and the Football League Championship once, in 1955.

The Chelsea Women’s team have enjoyed a huge amount of success and in 2025 won the FA Women’s Super League for a sixth consecutive year and the eighth time overall. The Women’s FA Cup has been won on six occasions. We have also captured the FA Women’s League Cup four times as well as reaching the UEFA Women’s Champions League final in 2021. In two seasons, 2020/21 and 2024/25, a domestic treble of trophies was secured.

The Chelsea Foundation boasts one of the most extensive community initiatives in sport, helping to improve the lives of children and young people all over the world.

Media Contacts:

Taina Biggs
taina.biggs@sokin.com 

Nerissa Chesterfield
nerissa.chesterfield@chelseafc.com 

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Amy Johnson Appointed President of GDIT

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RESTON, Va., Oct. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — General Dynamics (NYSE:GD) announced today that Amy Johnson has been appointed as president of GDIT, effective November 3.

Johnson is a 27-year veteran of General Dynamics Mission Systems, where she held increasingly senior roles in engineering, engineering management and business leadership across cybersecurity, defense electronics, space and intelligence systems, most recently as vice president and general manager for Space, Cyber and Intelligence. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science and computer systems engineering. 

“Amy has a proven track record of leading teams to solve complex and highly technical challenges for our customers,” said Phebe Novakovic, CEO of General Dynamics. “I am confident that her dynamic leadership, operational rigor and deep commitment to our values and culture will deliver value to our customers, employees and shareholders.”

GDIT delivers digital modernization, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and software development solutions to the U.S. federal government, defense, intelligence agencies and other customers. It is a business unit of General Dynamics, a global aerospace and defense company that offers a broad portfolio of products and services in business aviation; ship construction and repair; land combat vehicles, weapons systems and munitions; and technology products and services. General Dynamics employs more than 120,000 people worldwide and generated $52.6 billion in revenue in 2025. More information is available at gd.com.

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