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In 1980, as a college student, I took a speed reading course and became convinced that speed reading could become a universal skill for all children if it were just made available in the right way to the general public. At that time the only speed reading courses available were those which costed hundreds of dollars per student. Also, these same courses were directed at adults, mostly college students and business owners.

I assumed that speed reading companies would, eventually, just automatically see the necessity of focusing on the children in order TO MAKE SPEED READING A UNIVERSAL SKILL for everyone. But by 1996, it became obvious that the speed reading industry wasn't changing. So I decided to take matters into my own hands.

In January, 1997, I launched the American Speed Reading Project to accomplish what nobody else was willing to do: Develop a SIMPLE method for TEACHING SPEED READING TO CHILDREN, and make it widely AVAILABLE to everybody at a very low cost.

I was looking for a NEW METHOD that was different than any other method in use, so that I could eventually make speed reading a universal skill for all people, both children and adults (but especially children).

This method is so simple that anyone can teach speed reading to children--even if the teacher can't speed read himself!

In early experiments, it didn't take me long to discover that children caught on to speed reading much easier and better than anybody ever expected.

On the second day of a 4-week experiment in 1997, one 9-year old girl could read 41 pages (of a book that I had brought) in 30 seconds, and she could tell me all about what had happened in the book. At first I thought I was in the presence of one of the world's few super-geniuses. But, the next day, when 5 more kids could do just as well, I realized that I had stumbled onto a normal, and natural phenomenon: Children can be natural, gifted speed readers, if they are just shown how, and if they are allowed to use the skill on a regular basis until it becomes second nature.

By the end of 4 weeks, the only kid in the class [of 18 children] who couldn't read at least 1,300 words per minute was the rowdy one who wouldn't cooperate anyway.

This is a taste of what SPEED READING 4 KIDS was written to accomplish!