Stefan Bauer and Emily Yudofsky both struggled in school before they were diagnosed with dyslexia. Once identified, both thrived, and both went on to study at Yale. The gap between struggling and thriving was a single thing - a proper evaluation - and for most families that evaluation is expensive, slow and hard to reach.
Marker Learning, founded in 2020 and based in New York, started as a direct answer to that gap. Rather than the traditional in-person route, which can cost thousands of dollars and take months, Marker brought the diagnostic process online. Licensed psychologists conduct initial evaluations and re-evaluations remotely for dyslexia, ADHD, dysgraphia, dyscalculia and auditory and language processing disorders, with early assessments priced around $799.
The clinical foundation was deliberate. Marker's approach was developed with input from leading experts, including from Johns Hopkins, and has been recognized by the International Dyslexia Association and the Learning Disabilities Association. States such as New York, Florida and New Jersey were early adopters, and availability has since expanded across the country.
Then Marker did the harder, sharper thing. It looked at where evaluators actually lose time - not in the testing, but in the writing. A single evaluation report can take a school psychologist the better part of a workday. So Marker built software for the people doing the work: an AI-assisted platform that drafts the report and hands the judgment back to the clinician.
