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Russell Van Brocklen
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Date Posted: 10:52:07 08/01/11 Mon
In reply to:
Cindy
's message, "Speed Reading for dyslexics??" on 12:30:43 07/24/11 Sun
According to Dr. Sally Shaywitz, The Audrey G. Ratner Professor of Learning Development at Yale University School of Medicine, the answer to your question generally is no, dyslexia and speed reading do not mix well. As Dr. Shaywitz stated on her website, http://dyslexia.yale.edu/Policy_ADA.html:
“Neural system (word-form area) for automatic, rapid reading is impaired in dyslexia; other areas provide compensation for accuracy, but not for speed.”
As you can clearly see from Dr. Shaywitz’s research, the front part of the dyslexic student’s brain is considerable overactive compared to a general education students brain. Therefore, since a dyslexic student cannot speed read anywhere near as well as their general education peer’s, the solution is to use this overactive part of the brain to processes the solution much faster than a general education student can.
For example, while attending law school students are required to read and answer extremely complicated multiple choose questions. The general education student will be able to read the questions much faster than a dyslexic student will; the dyslexic student can be trained to process the information much faster than the general education studentcan .
So have your son focus his efforts on processes information much faster, not trying to read faster. I developed a process to do this for myself while going through higher education, and I can show other dyslexic student’s to do the same.
I created http://www.dyslexiaconsultants.com/ to provide the best general information on dyslexia online. In order to support the website I am starting an online tutoring business for highly motivated dyslexic high school and college students, using an innovative new approach based on the latest research in neural science, which was presented at the International Dyslexia Association, New York City Branch, in 2006.
In order to get a better idea about the capability of the online tutoring service I am offering, please visit www.TutorFi.com/demo and take a minute to view the video.
Please give me your feedback regarding the video and if you know any motivated dyslexic high school or college student’s that could use my special assistance, please visit me at http://www.tutorfi.com/manhattan-tutor and fill out the form on the right side of the webpage, below my picture.
I would appreciate you visiting me at http://www.dyslexiaconsultants.com/.
Russell Van Brocklen
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http://www.dyslexiaconsultants.com/
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