Red Wizard 🪄 to Self Improvement@hexbear.net · 6 months ago

Reading Speed and Comprehension

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Reading Speed and Comprehension

Red Wizard 🪄 to Self Improvement@hexbear.net · 6 months ago

(cross posting as this seems the more appropriate place)

cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3198573

I have ADHD, I think it’s possible I had some other form of reading disability when I was younger, but I’m not sure. Just a hunch, my therapist has. One thing I do all the time, that really slows me down, is subvocalizing. If I’m not subvocalizing, I feel like my retention and comprehension are almost nonexistent. For easier literature, it’s not a big deal, but wanting to read more theory, I find myself struggling.

I think, according to some reading tests I was taking today, I read at about 144 wpm which isn’t great. That’s me mostly subvocalizing. If I stop, I can get to 270, but my retention and comprehension goes down quite a bit.

Any advice, tools, websites, services, you might be aware of that can help me unlearn a lifetime of bad reading habits? Everyone wants to sell you a tool or service for STEM shit, but when you’re looking for adult assistance with reading, all I seem to be finding is stuff for Elementary and Middle School level reading.

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I will say that subvocalization literally is reading aloud to yourself. Your larynx flutters when you subvocalize and so iirc the current theory is that it’s a way of promoting comprehension and retention because you are processing it through both audio and visual centers of the brain

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