What's New

New Visual Skills Assessment test added to help parents and teachers identify ICS.

May 13, 2001 - Completed treatment of 13 students at Algood School. Treatment was funded by the Cookeville Noonday Lions Club.

April 3, 2001 - N2Reading applied for Department of Education grant to fund more research and treatment.

" Identifying and Reversing Intermittent Central Suppression in Students with Low Reading Comprehension as a Method of Improving Student Performance in Reading." Published Winter 2000, in the Journal of Optometric Vision Development by Dr. James Miller.
 
September 24, 2000 - Article about ICS and N2Reading covered in Herald-Citizen.

November-December 2004 - Research conducted in a local middle school indicated that students with poor reading skills who diligently train for at least twenty hours using the N2Reading Vision Training Program administered via the Internet, improved their reading skills significantly. In one instance a student improved from a grade level in reading of 4.2 to 8.4. In another, the improvement was from 2.6 to 6.5.

Although the sample was small (8 students) and included students from grades 5 through 8, it became clear that regular attendance and diligent use of the program tended to produce positive results. The supervision was provided by a trained volunteer with extensive experience in working with reading-disabled students however it was soon evident that an authority figure (teacher or parent) is required in order that the students pay attention to the task at hand rather than "goofing off" during training sessions.

January-February 2005 - Having learned the problems relating to proper supervision, another research effort was conducted, again via the Internet, at a local elementary school. The 14 subjects ranged from the first grade to the fourth grade. This time a teacher from the school was in attendance during all training sessions as well as one or more of the parents augmented by the same volunteer who conducted the middle school research.