Tools for Reading
Evidence-Based Tools for Kids & Adults
Evidence-based reading tools help readers improve their reading skills. Joan M. Brennan has spent 20+ years teaching, investigating, and developing the best ways to help students focus and read better.
Evidence-Based Tools Help Readers with Reading Disabilities
Evidence-based tools help all students develop good reading skills over time. However, for students with ADHD, dyslexia, autism, low vision, stroke recovery, TBI or other issues, reading and learning can be especially difficult. Participating in regular classroom and homework activities without supportive tools and strategies can make reading and learning even more daunting. Parents and teachers may find one particular strategy or a combination of strategies and tools may be most effective for some children. This can often be an empirical process to discover which strategies, tools and other resources achieve the best outcome. Patience and persistence on the part of all involved will be key, with parents and teachers offering as much encouragement and motivation as possible. In the end, the outcome will be “sweet” and the victory will be well worth it for everyone, especially for the learners!
The Need for Effective Evidence-Based Tools to Help Readers
To be effective, assistive tools should help individuals manage the symptoms of their reading and learning challenges. With the right evidence-based tools, readers will be better able to improve skills like focus, decoding, tracking, fluency, comprehension and retention.
The evidence-based Reading Focus Cards (U.S. Patent 7,565,759) provide this needed support. These reading aids utilize years of professional educational experience in working with a variety readers and learners. The result is better reading and comprehension skills development for persons of all ages.
For more information about the 2 studies of the Reading Focus Cards, please click here.
The Importance of Learning to Read
Reading is the foundation of all learning and success in life. So, it is essential that parents begin reading to their children at an early age. Family trips to the library help little ones learn the importance and enjoyment of reading. When parents read aloud to them, great things happen. Modeling critical reading skills and parent-child bonding are just some of the benefits.
Effective Tools for Reading & Learning
Children and adults with attention issues need the right tools and strategies to help improve reading success. It can be difficult for them to FIRST focus to read a full sentence and THEN begin to PROCESS its correct meaning. However, evidence-based reading tools help readers do just that.
Evidence-Based Tools Help Readers with Needed Support
Many educational methods fail to meet the 3 basic needs for effective support of challenged readers:
- Help readers focus more easily on text lines or part of a page.
- Allow readers to concentrate on individual words or lines, as needed.
- Encourage eye movement from left to right & from 1 text line to another.
- Should be evidence-based.
The Reading Focus Cards are evidence-based tools helping readers focus and read better. They are particularly helpful for kids and adults who need more tracking, comprehension and retention support for content they read. Consider using them with children and students of all ages needing more focusing and comprehension support. As a result, the Reading Focus Cards will provide the support needed to help persons of all ages experience more reading success.
