Touch-type Read and Spell (TTRS) was established in 1992  as the result of a research degree and with the kind help and assistance of The Rev. Dr. Jessica Aidley, The British Dyslexia Association Computer Committee - Jean Hutchins, London Borough of Bexley Advisory Service - Marjorie Lishman, Irene Heskett, The North Kent Dyslexia Association and Pam Morley, Br Matthew Sasse,  Dr. Beve Hornsby of the Hornsby International Dyslexia Centre. 

TTRS is based on the word lists of the text book Alpha to Omega by Dr. Beve Hornsby, Frula Shear and Julie Pool, available from Heinemann Press. Alpha to Omega acknowledges "the roots of the ideas that form the basis of this programme lie in the work of Anne Gillingham and Bessie Stillman, who, in conjunction with Samuel T. Orton, began to devise a phonetically based scheme for the teaching of dyslexics in the 1930's. This was later expounded in the UK by Sally B. Childs."

October 1994
The first TTRS Independent Centre in Croydon, England was officially opened by former Speaker of the House of Commons, Lord Weatherill with Richard Ottaway MP, Member of Parliament for Croydon South.

Picture of Lord Weatherill cutting the tape