[nabs-l] Speeding Up Reading?

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello,
Practice makes perfect if done right. Guidance helps a lot.
What do you mean? Just read my pathetic 1 page in one minute then run my 
fingers along the lines, grabbing the occasional the and whatnot to do 2 
pages in one minute?
How often should I do this?
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs
-----Original Message----- 
From: Cynthia Bennett
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 6:59 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Speeding Up Reading?

Practice makes perfect. Also, one of the techniques used at BLIND,
Inc. was the following. Time yourself and record how many pages you
can read in one minute. Then, time yourself for another minute, and
double the amount of pages you read. Don't try to comprehend the
material, but just get in the habit of moving your fingers faster.
Then, continue to practice and try to get yourself into the mind set
of reading more quickly.

Cindy

On 9/17/12, Brandon Keith Biggs <brandonkeithbiggs at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm wondering if anyone has any articles, books or advice for speeding up 
> my
>
> Braille reading? I'm at the point to where no matter how much I seem to
> read, my reading is not getting any faster...
> At the moment I'm reading with my left index finger and my right finger
> takes over when lines don't have any really complicated words... I'm 
> getting
>
> down the two hand split, but I'm wondering if there is anything else I can
> be working on?
> I've read that sighted people tend to see words in pictures and they don't
> actually read the whole word. In fact they look at a paragraph and get the
> picture in their head and hardly notice any particular words at all.
> I'm wondering if there is some way to do this with Braille?
> The TVIs that I've talked to have not worked with their students to go 
> past
>
> letter by letter reading. I'm really looking for a Braille reading 
> technique
>
> book if anything exists on that...
> Reading Braille doesn't feel like understanding speech at faster speeds
> which is something I have been able to do with no guidance :) so I'm kind 
> of
>
> at a loss.
> Thank you,
>
> Brandon Keith Biggs
>
>
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B.A. Psychology, UNC Wilmington

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