Turnaround Leader, Academic Author, and Policy Strategist Announces Statewide Legislative Push, Neurodivergent Workforce Models, and Free Orton-Gillingham Scaling Across Maryland
Nationwide — Entering his second year at the helm of the Dyslexia Tutoring Program (DTP), Executive Director and policy strategist Dalbin Osorio, M.Ed., MSW, has launched a visionary agenda aimed at expanding access to literacy, implementing mandatory educational screenings, and building robust support frameworks for neurodivergent youth across Maryland. Building on a transformative freshman tenure that successfully optimized the organization’s operational core and generated exceptional community outcomes, Osorio is steering DTP into a new era of proactive legislative advocacy, regional academic scale, and equity-focused innovation.
Established in 1985 to remove economic barriers preventing low-income children from accessing high-quality reading interventions, DTP has reached a historic milestone under Osorio’s leadership. In his first year, Osorio executed a comprehensive operational upgrade, establishing the organization’s foundational infrastructure from the ground up—including modernized scholar tracking records, optimized standard operating procedures, and progressive internal workplace policies. This rapid modernization went hand-in-hand with unprecedented financial growth, securing $800,000 in first-year revenue and stabilizing a budget to fully sustain evidence-based Orton-Gillingham structured-literacy support for families across the state.
The imperative behind DTP’s expanded footprint is validated by deep systemic cracks in early childhood education. On the 2025 Maryland state assessment, a mere 31.2% of Baltimore City public school students demonstrated proficiency in English Language Arts—marking the single lowest baseline in the state. With dyslexia impacting roughly one in five learners nationwide, families facing private tutoring costs upwards of $100 per hour are systematically locked out of academic parity. DTP bridges this chasm, embedding over 60 extensively trained, diverse tutors directly within Title I environments to deliver elite 1:1 interventions entirely for free. Independent performance monitoring proves that DTP scholars unlock statistically significant gains in decoding and spelling within 30 hours, with the share of youth reading at or above the 25th age percentile more than doubling by hour 60.
“Our first year proved that our operational foundation is bulletproof and our direct-service model is highly effective,” said Dalbin Osorio, Executive Director of DTP. “Year two is about scaling that success into lasting, systemic change. We are stepping forward to champion universal, standardized early dyslexia screenings in every Maryland public school, while simultaneously building clear, collaborative pathways for neurodivergent young adults to thrive in the modern workforce. Literacy is a fundamental civil right, and we are fully committed to ensuring that every single child in our state is given the tools to unlock their limitless potential.”
A flagship pillar of Osorio’s equity design is the Literacy Brigade, a pioneering partnership with Morgan State University that trains and compensates Black and Brown collegiate students to deliver intensive structured-literacy support, driving a massive 40% enrollment spike in its first year alone [cite: 13]. Osorio is currently scaling this three-tiered delivery methodology regionally through expanding collegiate coalitions with Coppin State University, Bowie State University, Towson University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Howard University.
Osorio’s high-momentum strategy for year two is supported by a rich academic pedigree and deep expertise in bleeding-edge education issues. A published author and thinker, Osorio recently released his first children’s book, Leah & The 0% Match (E-Robotic Press), bringing representation and creative focus to diverse learners, alongside his newly published academic work, “AI in Color” (IGI Global), which critically analyzes artificial intelligence frameworks through an educational equity lens. An alumnus of Hunter College (MSW in Macro Organizational Management) and Boston College (M.Ed. in Educational Leadership), Osorio is in the final stages of his Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Education & Applied Learning Sciences at the University of Miami, where he is scheduled to defend his highly anticipated dissertation, “Unmasked & Unlocked: Scaffolding for Self-Determination and Social Justice,” in November 2026.
Osorio’s background spans critical structural roles, including Senior Advisor for Policy & Community Impact at the National Youth Employment Coalition and Managing Director of Public Affairs for the Montgomery County Education Association, where he engineered community campaigns that expanded full-service community schools from 7 to 43 and captured millions in funding increases. His unified, second-year legislative blueprint centers on three definitive mandates:
• Mandatory Statewide Screening: Instituting standardized, universal early dyslexia screenings across every Maryland public school system to break the cycle of zip-code-dependent learning outcomes.
• Neurodivergent Workforce Infrastructure: Architecting regional workforce pipelines and targeted corporate development partnerships to guide neurodivergent youth transitioning from school into the competitive economy.
• Expanded Tutoring Access: Maximizing multi-university network growth to bring free, multi-tiered Orton-Gillingham interventions into underserved urban corridors state-wide.
About the Dyslexia Tutoring Program
Established in 1985, the Dyslexia Tutoring Program (DTP) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in
Baltimore, Maryland, is dedicated to providing free, high-quality, one-on-one structured literacy tutoring to
low-income children and youth who struggle with reading, spelling, and writing due to dyslexia. By utilizing the gold-standard Orton-Gillingham approach and cultivating strategic institutional partnerships, DTP builds permanent literacy capacity within marginalized communities and ensures that financial hardship is never a barrier to academic and personal fulfillment.
MEDIA CONTACT:
Dalbin Osorio, M.Ed., MSW
Executive Director, Dyslexia Tutoring Program
Office Phone: 410-889-5487
Direct Mobile: 301-792-1623
Email: dalbinosorio@gmail.com / info@dtpnow.org