ADD/ADHD

Many students with ADD/ADHD find they can focus and read well with PR. This is because PR speeds up the presentation of material to match the rate needed by the student. Extensive research has shown that many students with ADD/ADHD are easily distracted not because they need a shot of medicine, but because they are bored. The reason they are bored is because the rate of input of material into their mind is normally much slower than the rate at which they can process this material. The result is boredom.

In PR silent reading the material is sped up to match the input processing speed needed by each student. Students also listen to Baroque music while they read silently with PR. The faster many of these students read silently with PR, the more they stop random physical motion and focus on what they are reading. These results are demonstrable within five minutes.

Unfortunately, many ADD/ADHD students in elementary school have been so bored for so long that they have not developed the necessary vocabulary to read without voice assistance. Often their decoding, automaticity and fluency are so bad that they simply can not read silently. On the other hand, these few students will not stand for hearing the voice read to them at normal speed and they will not stand to hear the sentence repeated. The result is that day after day there are a few students in each class who fail to stay on task. These students also frequently disturb other students. They greatly frustrate their teachers.

Many teachers mistakenly think the solution is to have these few students pulled out from the class and monitored closely by one-on-one human intervention. This idea will not work either in the short term or in the long term.

A very powerful and simple PR solution exists for these problems. One PR tool enables the text to be read out loud as fast as the student wants. The student moves his eyes over the text keeping just ahead of the sound. When the sound gets to the word the student is looking at, the student looks forward to the next longer word, or word next to a comma or period. The student gets excellent practice in voice and text correlation, pacing, hearing an inner voice and thinking about what was just read. The process is so engaging and so fast that the student stays focused and on task and quickly gets his or her work done.

For Further Information

Please read our introduction to PR. This article is called "Improve Reading Quickly". Click on the link here, or access this article from the center of our home page. This article describes our progression of seven separate steps for creating good reading habits. This article describes how the program is used and each of the specific purposes. It explains briefly how our software provides help for almost every possible reading difficulty, and describes how two of the seven approaches provide different methods for anyone to immediately read text with increased speed and comprehension.

This Introductory article also explains how ideally this seven step, interactive program is combined with initial evaluation and periodic consultation. Our 16 page paper describes in depth why this should occur and spells out in detail the specific approach used by the PR trainer in the classroom, or with individual students or adults. A detailed description of the eight step initial evaluation process is also available. Watch our Free Movies.

The introductory article on PR also explains how immediate reading improvement can occur by using specialized hardware which holds book pages open. By freeing up the hands, this tool allows the reader to sit back in a relaxed and supported position and to type notes while reading. It also enables one to stop turning ones head from side to side while typing. For many people, this tool immediately improves reading comprehension and enjoyment as well as productivity.

Please contact us to discuss your specific needs, or those of a family member or friend.