Dennis Brooks has been conducting reading research for over eighteen years and has developed a series of textbooks based on research from various sources. He has known for many years that the key to teaching dyslexic students to read includes phonics, multi-sensory-learning, pronunciation, enunciation, spelling, syllabification, and reading out loud. He put these elements into a single course that has proven to be effective for teaching basic reading skills. However, that course, Catch Up With Reading, was more effective for teaching non-dyslexic students to catch up to grade level. Some dyslexic students still had problems learning to read with this basic skills course.  
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In the process of working with dyslexic students, he found that most of them would read the first syllable of a multi-syllable word and then guess at the rest of the word. This happened mostly if the word was not part of their active vocabulary. This is when he introduced complete syllabification into the phonetic text.  With each word divided into syllables, dyslexic students showed immediate improvement in reading. By reading phonetically with kum.plet sil.u.bu.ka.shun in an interactive, multi-sensory manner, dyslexic students began to show continuous improvement over a period of time.  This seems to indicate that as long as dyslexic students study and continue to practice reading out loud phonetically with syllabification, their reading skills will continue to improve. Even though they see results right away, it may take up to twelve weeks of reading with phonics to get significant results.