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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.
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