Welcome to Behavioural Reading

99% of all programs used to teach reading, whether at school, in books or online, are actually just variations and re-naming of the same theme. Behavioural reading is completely new and strongly challenges the status quo of traditional reading methodologies. In the words of Fletcher, Lyons, Fuchs and Barnes 2007,'...most interventions involve... encouraging to practice....repeated readings....guided reading and simply trying to increase the amount of time.... in independent reading.'

It is a sad situation to think that in this day and age, these primitive techniques are still the status quo for teaching reading fluency and where the focus of academia is.

Behavioural reading was conceptualized on state of the art training and coaching techniques that have exposed a breakthrough in how reading can be taught rapidly, predictably and captures the bottom 20% who usually fail.

Unlike conventional methods, Behavioural Reading actually creates correct behavioural and neurological sequencing and leads the child to correct and effective reading, quickly and predictably.

A world first and challenging the 'establishment' we post all of our raw data on an excel spreadsheet for all to see. Our results are impressive and unparalleled.

Behavioural reading also exposes flaws in traditional teaching methods, that by their very nature often cause failure for the lower 20% of readers. It is able to rapidly address these problems, repair  and  create reading fluency. Most children can become fluent within a single week.

In our clinic the average client will have become a quality reader incorporating all of the critical aspects of fluency, comprehension and spelling in 4 to 6 sessions (one hour) and utilizing 10 minutes of homework daily. Read more...

BR does not specifically address the root causes of Dyslexia. Dyslexia is a real disorder and includes very significant atypical brain functioning. Though many programmes make claims to assist with this disorder, there is one that stands alone in its 'gains for effort' ratio. (see Cellfield). In our clinic, Cellfield is used in conjunction with BR to produce great results. (see Tyquin Data).

With a view to the future...., making pedagogical changes in the lower grades incorporating BR methods, will further assist the high achieving reader, resolve most problems for the 'struggling' reader, improve teacher productivity and reduce costs to the school by reducing demand on learning support services.

This is a genuine revolution - be part of it!   Read more..

                     Features:

DIY Teaching method for parents

Rapidly creates a correct model of reading sequencing and  behaviours

Creates the 'efficient' neurology typical of proficient readers

Focus is on building the 'processes' needed to read, recall, decode, remember and comprehend rather than the individual words

Accesses the thousands of words in the 'language bank' of the child and integrates them into the decoding and 'reading bank'

Recognizes and deactivates over dominating modalities such as visual, auditory, or memorization when they impact on the reading process

Acts to integrate and activate all modalities concurrently including: visual, auditory, motor, visualization, colour,  receptive language, expressive language, working memory, ROTE, executive planning

Alters the sequencing and organization of the brain by strategic external exercises

Rapidly removes emotional and preconditioned 'stress' and 'failure' responses caused by unpleasant experiences at school

Able to be easily adjusted to reflect individual nuances

Reading fluency is usually initiated in one session

Visual separation from word being spoken

Corrects sequencing when 'parrot' recall (Auditory memory)  dominates the reading effort.

Breaks the "85 words per minute" neurological threshold

Breaks the slow 'word by word'  type of reading

Breaks the slow or rapid 'word by word'  type of reading

Breaks the monotone and lack of expression in reading

Initiates and optimizes working memory and expansion

Accurately locates exact working memory ceilings

Trains Short term memory to Long term memory transition

Fatigue tolerance is improved to within normal limits

Assists Eye fatigue and pain when vision is not impaired but where cramping of muscles occurs in the eyes as a stress response to decoding fatigue and working memory limits

Spelling via Behavioural reading incorporating, ROTE, visualization word families and multisensory method

Rapid 3 minute Spelling method  

'Vocabulary Circles' for easy rapid vocabulary expansion utilizing expressive and receptive language resources in the brain

Adding 50 - 200 reading words per week

Reading accuracy created quickly and predictably

Decoding made easy

Decoding improvements without instruction on individual words

Deactivates the negative aspects of 'Sight words'

Creates the neurological aspects of 'sight words' without the need to learn the 'lists'

Creates the sight word 'effect' predictably, controllably and rapidly

Automaticity in reading recognizing decoding as the primary behaviour and comprehension as the targeted secondary behaviour

Comprehension initiation via visualization and verbalizing (Bell, Nancy1986)

Creates the essential neurological sequencing required for simplistic  'recall' based contextual comprehension through to the complex 'abstract' non contextual comprehension

Undo and rectify the 'sight word' defects

Undo and rectify the "Look say cover write check" spelling method defects

Maths times tables via Rote + Working memory optimization

Maths times tables using "Perfect" technique and incorporating motor planning