Children Learn To Speed Read Easier Than Adults
Speed reading trainers have observed that children learn to speed read far more easily than grown ups. Children are found to master the skill of speed reading far easier than adults. It becomes a natural activity for them if they are taught to speed read before entering adolescence; something like speaking. It becomes a natural part of them.
In fact, recent discoveries show that children learn to speed read so easily that nearly anyone can teach them to speed read even if they themselves are incapable of speed reading. Seems impossible, doesn't it? Many school teachers and full time moms were asked to train their children for speed reading. They did just fine. None of them knew how to speed read themselves.
Scary, but one home schooling mother could make her 12 year old son read a comfortable 1500 words per minute, where most adults read at about 250 to 300 words per minute. A teacher at a local high school could make 75% of her class learn to speed read within a month, reaching an average speed of about 2300 words per minute. Others giving this concept the acid test ended up with similar results.
So why cant these instructors just learn to speed read themselves first, before imparting it to the children? Well they can, but tests have revealed that it doesn't happen that way. It's nearly 10 times harder for the adult brain to adapt to speed reading than that of a child. By the time an adult mind struggles and finally masters the act, it becomes so weary that it tends to become a serious doubt whether children are capable of learning it at all. Teaching it directly is the easier way. Its sad but a number of commercially available speed reading courses don't allow children below the age of 11- to 13-years to enroll. But studies have proved children to be better speed readers than adults. 70-80% percent of the very best students of speed reading are somewhere around 12 years of age. Older kids seem to need a little bit more hard work to achieve the same speed in reading as their junior counterparts. Speed reading experts don't seem to take notice of the capacity children have with respect to speed reading. Speed reading is generally promoted only amongst adults. That could be because adults have the spending power, kids don't. The other reason may be that the methods employed to teach speed reading in these courses are made so rigorous (since it is difficult for the adult mind to adjust to changes) that they are not made available for the flexible young brain. Simply, children can't concentrate long enough to complete them. There are even speed reading courses that require hours of homework per day in the form of written notes also known as "recall patterns." No kid can ever keep up with that much paperwork!!! Most people don't realize that it is easier to teach a child to speed read or how important the skill could be to the child in the future. It is up to each parent to discover the importance of teaching there child speed reading and to impart this knowledge to there kin.
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