Ordinary kids
Spontaneous Reading™ is intended for ordinary children. Children need not be “gifted” or advanced, though the kinds of things I’ll recommend you do with your child certainly may make him more advanced than other children his age.
Savants, Prodigies, and Your Child
Some children read spontaneously when quite young (age two, for example) and understand what they read and retain and improve their reading ability as they grow. These children are prodigies, in the same way that Mozart, who at age eight was composing music we still play today, was a prodigy. These are not “ordinary kids.” But your child does not need to be a prodigy to learn to read spontaneously.
Some children read spontaneously at a very early age but don’t understand what they read and cannot retell what they just read. This ability is really a deficit, called hyperlexia. Children who exhibit hyperlexia are savants, usually autistic children with extraordinary ability in a single skill but without the accompanying understanding that makes this skill useful. Spontaneous Reading™ does not develop a savant-like skill but develops true reading ability that increases over time.
To learn to read, your child needs only attentive parents, working sensory equipment (eyes and ears), and opportunities to explore the print world. I’ll show you how.
Contact me at Patricia@PatriciaNanAnderson.com
