The author of this program has discovered more than 100 English spelling rules. Camilia Sadik is a college professor, who earned her BA in philosophy from Wayne State University, Michigan, in 1985, and a Master’s certificate in linguistics from San Diego State University, 1995. During the past decade of Professor Sadik’s teaching experience, she became intensely involved in the subject of spelling and completed the workshops offered by the San Diego County Adult Literacy Program to become a volunteer tutor. Moreover, Sadik earned a teaching certificate in the essential elements of ABE (Adult Basic Education) from San Diego City College in 1996. As an observer, Sadik attended literacy classes daily for more than a year. She read hundreds of books on phonics and realizes that the core of the adult illiteracy problem is in spelling.

Every question that can be asked about spelling, including questions about the apparent exceptions to the rules, can be answered. In Sadik's approach, it is as if the people who originally wrote English were still living and available to answer every question that anyone could ask about the structure of English letters and their relationship to spelling. It is about time that we, as the teaching community, rise to the challenge of defending English spelling. It is only reasonable to say that words truly are spelled the same way that they sound. We can make that statement only after learning each English letter, its changes, its spelling pattern, and the justifiable reasons behind those changes.

A brief example of a spelling rule is the one that asks when and why we should use the word endings "-cial" or "-tial," as in words like "facial" and "substantial." The answer to this type of question may not have much value to someone who has learned to spell as a child by memorization. However, to someone who is having difficulties remembering the spelling of words the answer enables him or her to learn to spell correctly approximately 25 words at once. In addition to discovering the spelling rules, Sadik developed two new learning methods called the UBMA and the RAA.