The Reality of the Fast and Slow Route Reading Systems

If you have watched our video "Dyslexia, Reading, and Remediation" you will have heard us talk about the Fast Route and Slow Route reading systems. These terms relate to the two or dual routes of the Dual Route Cascaded Model extensively researched by Max Coltheart PhD of Australia.

Reading about this is interesting, but experiencing it is quite another. Try read this word... deos

Your Slow Route will kick in and phonologically decode it as 'dee - os'.

But let's access this self same word through our Fast Route reading system, where it is no longer isolated, but placed in contextual and syntactical accurate context. Just start reading and you will find you can (and will find our word after the phrase "the human mind").

To reinforce the need for grammatically appropriate language usage, try read the following.

Now read the same sentence in its proper syntax organization.

Fluent reading, with high levels of automaticity, requires accurate knowledge of a word's orthography, pronunciation, semantics, contextual role, and syntactical usage.

The scientific reality of this reality has been extensively researched and demonstrated by Dr. Coltheart. His article "Modelling Reading: The Dual-Route Approach" forms the opening article in the excellent publication The Science of Reading: A Handbook, edited by Margaret J. Snowling and Charles Hulme and published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1405114882. See also the Amazon link below.

This is just one example of how Dynaread uses current scientific understanding to help children succeed.