Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation | Initial Teaching Alphabet, ITA Our Foundation Who We Are The Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation is a corporation organized under the Membership Corporation Law of the State of New York in March 1965. The Foundation was formed exclusively for educational and charitable purposes to promote maintain and advance education in all its fields and in particular but without limiting the generality of the foregoing by development standardization propagation dissemination teaching and use of the Initial Teaching Alphabet. Our Mission Statement The mission of the ITA Foundation is to promote literacy by providing independent funding for the development and dissemination of best teaching practices in the use and support of the initial teaching alphabet ITA. Our Research History Although substantial research in England and Australia validates the use of ITA for beginning reading instruction in regular classes it was not until the 1985 that our Foundation sponsored research on the use of this phonetic alphabet for remediation of dyslexia.