ENTRY 4. Am I fast or a slow reader?

Maybe I’m a slow reader too if two minutes is too long. People are all different—we aren’t robots. Some people are better athletes, others are better at math and science.

If you think you have reading issues and don’t like to read, look into vision therapy. My son never liked to read, nor did I. People told him to simply read more, but I knew how he felt and knew that reading more wouldn’t help him enjoy it more. We didn’t find out about visual therapy until he was 18 when an acquaintance told me that her daughter completed visual therapy and thereafter, couldn’t put down a book. My son’s eyes weren’t tracking well (he would re-read and have difficulty focusing on the lines), so he went to vision therapy where he did easy eye exercises and then at home did these every day for only 15 minutes. He is 21 and still needs to do exercises on a computer program for 15 minutes and it helps for the rest of the day. If he’d had vision therapy when he was a child, he would have overcome it without having to do maintenance. I was so disappointed that no teacher even mentioned vision therapy. His eyesight was 20/20, and that’s usually what people think of when people have reading issues. 

Vision therapy is very expensive but totally worth it but find a reputable one. You might be able to find programs online that are cheaper, being that it’s the appointments that cost so much.I realized after that I had his same problem (I hated reading but it was never really obvious why—there were no floating letters or anything) but it wasn’t until age 40 where I got hooked on being on the computer every day for 10–12 hours that it trained my eyesight, like visual therapy, and my reading improved tremendously. I was able to realize this after we found visual therapy.

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