James "Mike" Royer is President of Educational Help, Inc, the parent company of Reading Success Lab.
Mike was born in Pocatello Idaho, and grew up in Nevada and California. Shortly after graduation from high school he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and spent most of the next 3 years stationed in Frankfurt Germany, Samsun Turkey and Wakkanai Japan. After discharge from the Air Force he enrolled at Contra Costa College in San Pablo California and then transferred to California State University at Chico where he received his B.A. in 1967.
He then enrolled at the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana Illinois where he received his M.S. degree in 1969 and his PhD degree in 1970. Mike's first academic job was as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, beginning in 1970, and he has stayed there ever since, retiring as a Full Professor in 2007 but maintaining an appointment as a Research Professor. He has had visiting faculty appointments at the University of Illinois, Arizona State University, South China Normal University in Guangzhou China, and Queensland University and The University of New England in Australia.
