Welcome to the Reading Wands
Your Cognitive Assistive Reading Tools for Neurodiverse Reader
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Your Unique Reading Experience Awaits
Is the Focus Wand Right for You?
Experience Comprehensive Integration: Cognitive, Visual, Emotional, Sensory, and Verbal
Struggling to maintain attention?
Solution: The Focus Wand integrates cognitive and sensory stimuli to enhance focus mechanisms.
Difficulty understanding the text?
Benefit: It integrates visual tracking with cognitive processing, boosting comprehension.
Re-reading passages or losing your place?
Fix: The Focus Wand integrates visual and emotional regulation to help you stay on track.
Choose the Focus Wand for Integrated Concentration and Reading Success!
Is the Peripheral Wand Right for You?
Experience Enhanced Integration: Visual, Cognitive, and Sensory Processing
Need better information retention?
Benefit: Integrates cognitive and visual cues to process text in larger chunks, boosting retention and understanding.
Struggling with visual stress and fatigue?
Relief: The Wand's ergonomic design reduces visual strain, promoting comfortable and sustained reading sessions.
Desire for an engaging and immersive reading experience?
Engagement: The Peripheral Wand's dynamic tracking encourages active reading, making it more engaging and enjoyable.
Choose the Peripheral Wand for Faster, Smarter Reading!
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What are the commonalities between the Wands?
The Science of Colour: How the Green Hue Makes Reading Easier
Why Green?
Attracts Attention: The vibrant green colour of the Reading Wands' Tracking Tips directs focus to the text. This is particularly beneficial for individuals with ADHD who might struggle with attention and focus, as studies suggest about 10-30% have visual processing challenges.
Reduces Stress: Known for its calming effects, green helps reduce visual strain and promotes relaxation, which is crucial for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC), of whom 70-90% experience sensory processing difficulties.
Enhances Energy and Focus: Bright green stimulates mental clarity and increases alertness, aiding Dyslexia sufferers (DS) who deal with phonological processing issues and can benefit from increased mental focus during reading.
Focus Wand
Peripheral Wand
Ergonomic Design for Effortless Reading
Ergonomically Superior: The design of each Tracking Tip in the Focus Wand and Peripheral Wand follows the natural motion of the eye and hand, which is essential for neurodivergent readers who may also struggle with fine motor coordination.
Decreases Effort: Designed to minimise the physical effort needed to maintain focus, especially beneficial during extended reading periods for those with ASC, helping manage the 20-80% who have visual processing deficits.
Cognitive and Emotional Enhancements for Lifelong Learning
Building a Strong Foundation to Mastering Reading Skills: The Tracking Tips facilitate the building of solid reading foundations, which are crucial for mastering reading skills. This is hugely relevant to Dyslexic readers, where up to 80% face visual processing challenges.
Versatile for All Readers: Whether tackling textbooks, digesting data, or enjoying a novel, the Tracking Tips adapt to personal reading needs, supporting the diverse cognitive processing speeds found in Neurodivergent individuals.
Designed for Engagement and Ease
Emotional Regulation: Features like embossed text, textured StimGrip, and fidget-friendly design help manage stress and anxiety, providing a tactile stimming tool for emotional regulation during reading sessions, which is critical for up to 80% of individuals with ASC facing emotional dysregulation.
Kinesthetic Learning: Engages multiple senses including touch and movement, enhancing motor skills and making the reading process more interactive and memorable for ADHD individuals who may have executive functioning challenges affecting their organizational and planning skills.
Empowering Diverse Readers
Support for Neurodivergence: Specifically beneficial for individuals with dyslexia, ADHD, and other reading challenges, enhancing reading fluency and cognitive processing. The Focus Wand with IRT and Peripheral Wand with RIRT are designed to boost reading confidence through improved reading fluency, comprehension, and retention.
Boosts Reading Confidence: Regular use of these wands shows notable instant improvements in reading skills, which is essential for all, especially Dyslexic readers who benefit significantly from enhanced visual and cognitive processing aids.
Why Choose the Wands?
Consistency in Use: Every aspect of the Tracking Tips is designed with the user in mind, ensuring seamless integration into daily reading practices, vital for building reading habits in Neurodivergent readers.
Research-Backed: The development of the Focus Wand and Peripheral Wand is grounded in extensive research, establishing them as premier aids in the market for addressing the specific challenges of ADHD, ASC, and Dyslexia.
Added Convenience ClipGrip
Always Ready, Wherever Your Books Take You: Our book clip (ClipGrip) ensures that your Reading Wand is always handy, clipping directly to your book. This added convenience is particularly beneficial for ADHD readers who may benefit from quick and easy access to tools that aid their reading focus. Choose from two stylish colours:
Vibrant green with embossed text or
sleek black with recessed text, enhancing your reading experience with a touch of personal style.
Holistic Cognitive Development:
Empowers Neurodiverse Readers: By improving visual and cognitive processing, executive function, and fine motor coordination, the Reading Wands make reading accessible and enjoyable for all readers, effectively addressing the complex needs of Neurodivergent individuals.
The Wands are built on holistic principles, enhancing sensory and emotional processing, visual perception, focus, concentration and attention.
Hear what our customers say:
A person Autistm
Fantastic quick postage and great instructions. The wand is great it just makes the page feel like I'm flowing through the words rather than thinking I've got ages to get to the end. I love the idea of the wand and feel it has encouraged me to want to read and try again .
Young person aged 7 - 11
Thanks for making reading more fun again for my son Gabriel ..... He has read a full book in three weeks at school as he now likes to read . I do however wish there was a way of not loosing the wand as we can't find it at mo and miss using the wand at home
Primary school aged 7 -11
“easy to use and improve the students concentration, speed and flow”
A mature person
Encouraged more reading. Read more. Improved comprehension. Better accuracy. Increased speed. More fluent. More capable.
Young person aged 7 - 11
Encouraged more reading. Enjoys reading more. Increased speed. Confidence.
An adult
Easy to use. Increased speed. Enjoys reading more. Confidence.
Primary school-aged students with ADHD & Dyslexia
Better accuracy. More speed. More fluent. Confidence
Primary school-aged students with Dyslexia
Increased speed.
Primary school - aged 7 - 11 with Autism
Increased speed. Started using a finger tracker when forgotten Wand.
Which Wand is suited to your cognitive needs?
Focus Wand
Peripheral Wand
It’s important for neurodiverse individuals, parents, and educational professionals to understand how the Reading Wands are specifically designed to support diverse reading needs, enhance cognitive processes, and provide ergonomic benefits tailored to their unique challenges.
Our Reading Wands are more than just tools; they are partners in your reading journey. You are investing in a solution that adapts to your personal learning style and evolves with your reading skills.
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Who: Designed specifically for the neurodiverse individual (ADHD, Dyslexia, and Autism).
What: A Cognitive Assistive Tool for Holistic Skill Development.
Where: Utilised in homes, schools, resource provision, prisons and youth offenders institutes.
When: Our mission is that by 2035, the Reading Wands will be Synonymous with every reading stage.
Why: to overcome cognitive challenges, support diverse cognitive profiles, promote inclusion, challenge conventional approaches, and empower the individual to read and learn.
How: Through our innovative Reading Wand and Interactive Reticular Tracking (IRT) and Rapid Interactive Reticular Tracking (RIRT) techniques.
“Empowering Neurodiverse Readers Everywhere”
FAQs
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Ideal Age Range:
The Focus Wand is best suited when you start reading a story to your child to them starting to read all the way to an an adult.
Peripheral Wands for individuals aged 8 and above, including teenagers and adults, who have a basic understanding of text but struggle with traditional reading methods.
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Attention Issues: If maintaining attention while reading is challenging, the Focus Wand stimulates focus mechanisms to improve concentration.
Understanding Text: For those who find it difficult to comprehend text, the Focus Wand enhances visual tracking and boosts comprehension.
Re-reading Passages: If you often lose your place or re-read passages, the Focus Wand helps keep you on track and engaged.
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Reading Speed: If your goal is to read faster, the Peripheral Wand expands your field of vision to process text more quickly.
Information Retention: The Peripheral Wand helps retain information by processing text in larger chunks, enhancing absorption.
Academic/Professional Efficiency: If you aim for efficiency in academic or professional reading, the Peripheral Wand accelerates reading pace and improves retention.
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Ergonomic Design: Both wands are designed to follow the natural motion of the eye and hand, reducing physical effort and visual strain.
Visual Tracking: They aid in visual tracking, helping to maintain focus and engagement with the text.
Emotional Regulation: Features like textured handles and fidget-friendly designs help manage stress and anxiety, which is particularly beneficial for neurodivergent readers
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Attracts Attention: The vibrant green directs focus to the text, aiding those with ADHD.
Reduces Stress: Green has calming effects, reducing visual strain for individuals with Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC).
Enhances Focus: Bright green stimulates mental clarity, helping dyslexic readers with phonological processing.
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ADHD: Quick access tools aid in maintaining reading focus.
Autism: Structured visual cues maintain engagement and reduce anxiety.
Dyslexia: Helps with visual closure and cognitive speed, making reading more enjoyable and less frustrating.
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Cognitive Processing: Enhances reading fluency and cognitive processing.
Motor Skills: Engages multiple senses, improving motor skills and making reading interactive.
Emotional Regulation: Provides tactile tools to manage stress and anxiety during reading sessions.
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Regular Use: Consistent use improves reading skills, boosting self-esteem and confidence, especially for dyslexic readers.
Research-Backed: Both wands are developed based on extensive research, addressing the specific challenges of ADHD, ASC, and Dyslexia.
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Step-by-Step Guide: Follow our step-by-step guide to select your tracking tips, choose the colour of your book tip, pick your design and worksheets, and finalize your order.
Personal Assistance: Our support team can help you make the best choice. Contact us via phone, email, or live chat for assistance.
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Stage 1: Engage (Eyes): Enhances peripheral vision and reduces eye strain.Stage
2: Immerse (Mind): Increases reading speed and boosts memory.
Stage 3: Excel (Self): Reduces cognitive load and supports emotional well-being.
Holistic Integration: The Peripheral Wand is a vital component of RIRT, supporting a comprehensive reading enhancement strategy tailored for neurodivergent individuals.
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Holistic Development: Enhances visual and cognitive processing, executive function, and fine motor coordination.
Convenient and Stylish: Includes a book clip for easy access and is available in vibrant green or sleek black.
Our customer service team is here to help! Feel free to contact us through live chat, email, or phone for personalised assistance.