TeamQuest training and events raise awareness and money for dyslexia

TeamQuest combines endurance training and fundraising to raise awareness of the difficulties some people have with reading and learning and enables anyone to be a part of a greater cause by improving their own lives while improving the lives of others.

TeamQuest is an endurance training and fundraising program devoted to helping children and adults with dyslexia and other reading difficulties. With events held around the US each year, participants work to raise awareness and money for all people with difficulty reading. The International Dyslexia Association (IDA), the brainchild behind TeamQuest, believes that all individuals have the right to achieve their potential, and barriers that get in the way of their learning must be removed. Because reading changes lives, the goal is to help all people have better experiences with reading and learning.

Regardless of their fitness level, Team Quest participants get a customized training program and train for a rewarding endurance event at one of the many great destinations worldwide. This program enables anyone to be a part of a greater cause by improving their own lives while raising money and awareness to improve the lives of those with dyslexia. Volunteers and staff from the IDA assist in events and help raise awareness about the challenges of those who struggle to read. In part, IDA seeks to facilitate early identification of dyslexia through effective teaching approaches, intervention strategies for reading, and interdisciplinary research. By participating in these TeamQuest events, we are raising awareness and funds for dyslexia, one event at a time.

For those who are interested in lending a hand, there are upcoming events being held in 2017 in Cleveland on Sunday, May 21, and San Antonio on Sunday, December 3, and in 2018 in Arizona on Sunday, January 14, and New Orleans on Sunday, March 4. Participants can commit to a full or half marathon, or support a run by participating in another activity on their own. Through these events, TeamQuest is committed to spreading research-based knowledge and lending extra help with reading to all those who need it — Until Everyone Can Read.