About Us

Our Company

The roots of the HEC Reading Horizons product, Discover Intensive Phonics at Home, are grounded in an intensive, explicit, systematic phonics program crafted in the early 1970s by education professional Charlotte Lockhart. Ms. Lockhart, a former elementary instructor and principal, created the original Discover Intensive Phonics for Yourself curriculum in response to students’ poor reading performance in her school’s reading programs. By tutoring students in her office daily while employing Orton-Gillingham-based techniques that incorporated multi-sensory, high-kinesthetic / verbal / visual learning cues, Lockhart was able to teach her students quickly how sound and letter relationships create words. Young students learned to read and spell and lives were changed.

HEC Reading Horizons located in North Salt Lake, Utah, distributed Charlotte Lockhart’s instructional manuals for over 20 years. In 1984, HEC Reading Horizons created companion software, which provided individualized instruction and accompanying hands-on practice with Charlotte Lockhart’s product, for elementary aged students.

Our Products

The Discover Intensive Phonics at Home computer software program, along with corresponding direct instruction materials, has taught hundreds of thousands of children to read. In literacy programs nationwide, even non-readers have advanced several grade levels of reading ability while using this interactive, multi sensory software that deals exclusively with basic reading and word attack skills. Our products have been used successfully in hundreds of elementary schools; as well as for individual at home use.

We continue to improve existing products and add exciting new elements to our collection of effective literacy tools. We invite you to explore our Web site for information about how our products can benefit you or someone you know. Feel free to contact us with questions or comments.