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While my daughter is babbling a blue streak-- sometimes I think I hear the ”pop” of her neurons expanding--I can feel my brain atrophying. Since Jane was born, I’ve read a total of one book (OK, three if you count books I’ve read for work). It took me six months to plod through Jane Jacobs’ “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” the 1961 ...

Growing up with deaf siblings, I became accustomed to watching most television programs and movies with closed captioning. Of course, by the time closed captioning was standard on all television sets I had been reading for years, so I’m not sure if it really helped my reading ability as a kid or not. Follow Along DVDs from Fox Home Entertainment ...

I've been using a technique that I found very helpful since junior high, and that was almost twenty years ago!  Slow readers often focus on one or two words at a time.  Teach him to start focusing on an entire paragraph at a time (literally, focusing the eye on the paragraph, not the word).  He can start out by focusing on a line or ...

I might suggest, as a parent of a child with reading difficulties, though on the comprehension end, checking out Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes.  They work to develop the sensory-cognitive skills necessary to  both decode the word and comprehend the word.  Through both aspects, reading fluency is increased.  You can check ...