Unlock the 9Cs of Reading Competence: Your Pathway to Mastery
Embrace the transformative journey of reading with our 9Cs of Competency Framework, meticulously designed to address the unique challenges neurodivergent individuals face. Each step, from Clarity to Confidence, is crucial for building a solid foundation, enhancing comprehension, and fostering a love for reading. Mastering these competencies ensures a seamless transition from struggling reader to confident learner, opening up a world of possibilities and success.
Clarity (C1) in Reading: Essential for transforming texts into clear, understandable messages, much like focusing a blurry lens to reveal sharp details.
Focus Wand & Peripheral Wand: Tools designed to enhance focus, reduce cognitive load, and improve anticipation in reading. They act as navigational aids, ensuring words and sentences are seen with precision, and upcoming text is anticipated, minimizing distractions and enhancing comprehension.
Outcome: With the wands, reading evolves from a challenging task to an engaging journey, where texts become vibrant landscapes of knowledge, easily navigated and understood.
Cadence (C2) in Reading: Likened to a figure skater's fluid movement, Cadence represents the seamless flow and rhythm in reading, ensuring words and sentences connect smoothly for an engaging narrative journey.
Focus Wand & Peripheral Wand: Act as guides to enhance smooth eye tracking, aid in word grouping, and improve field of view, mimicking a skater's graceful, uninterrupted performance on ice.
Outcome: Mastery of Cadence eliminates choppy, disjointed reading, replacing it with fluid comprehension and joyful engagement, akin to being absorbed in a flawless skating routine.
Celerity (C3) in Reading: Evokes the image of a high-performance race car, symbolizing the ability to read quickly while maintaining control, ensuring comprehension isn't sacrificed for speed.
Focus Wand & Peripheral Wand: Serve as essential tools, akin to a race car's steering wheel and rearview mirror, guiding precise, focused navigation through texts and expanding peripheral vision for better anticipation of upcoming textual "turns."
Outcome: Mastery of Celerity means conquering vast texts with ease, maintaining high reading speed without losing grip on understanding, akin to a race car driver expertly navigating the track to victory.
Concentration (C4) in Reading: Symbolizes the harmonious flow of information at a pace that matches the reader's cognitive abilities, akin to driving on a smooth, efficient superhighway.
Focus Wand & Peripheral Wand: Act as precision tools to enhance concentration, akin to a navigator and an advanced vision system, ensuring the reader maintains an optimal pace for deep engagement and comprehension.
Outcome: Achieving Concentration (C4) means transcending mere reading speed to reach a state of profound connection with the text, where distractions fade away, and every word and concept is fully absorbed and understood.
Comprehension (C5) in Reading: Symbolizes the harmonization of information into a cohesive and engaging narrative, akin to orchestrating a symphony from individual notes.
Focus Wand & Peripheral Wand: Serve as the maestro's baton, guiding the reader through the textual composition with precision and grace, enhancing focus, and expanding vision for a richer understanding.
Outcome: Mastering Comprehension (C5) transforms reading from a disjointed assembly of facts into a captivating narrative, enabling readers to engage deeply with the material, visualize vividly, and retain knowledge effectively.
Cementation (C6) in Reading: Signifies the process of solidifying newly acquired knowledge into long-term memory, akin to fortifying a structure with strong mortar.
Focus Wand & Peripheral Wand: Serve as essential tools in this process, enhancing the precision of information placement and the expansion of contextual understanding, facilitating deeper connections and the embedding of knowledge.
Outcome: Mastering Cementation (C6) ensures that reading transitions from a temporary activity to a lasting acquisition of knowledge, building a durable and accessible knowledge base that supports ongoing learning and application.
Consistency (C7) in Reading: Embodies the principle of maintaining a regular, steady pace in reading activities, analogous to practising an instrument daily to achieve mastery.
Focus Wand & Peripheral Wand: These tools act as the metronome and map, respectively, ensuring a rhythmic flow of reading and visualizing progress, aiding in the establishment of a persistent reading habit.
Outcome: Achieving Consistency (C7) transforms the reading process from sporadic attempts to a sustained journey of growth and understanding, paving the way for enhanced reading proficiency and lifelong learning habits.
Control (C8) in Reading: Symbolizes the mastery of directing one's mental focus and energies towards productive and efficient reading, likened to a skilled rider taming a wild horse.
Role of Focus Wand & Peripheral Wand: Serve as tools that provide the necessary grip (bridle) and awareness (lookout) to navigate the reading process, akin to the reins and the rider's proactive adjustments.
Impact: Establishing Control (C8) transforms reading from a potentially chaotic and distracted endeavor into a focused, purposeful, and enjoyable experience, enabling deeper understanding and engagement with the material.
Confidence (C9) in Reading: Symbolizes the transformative belief in one's own reading abilities, likened to ascending the final rung of a ladder illuminated by the sun's radiance, dispelling doubts and fears.
Role of Focus Wand & Peripheral Wand: Serve as supportive tools that guide and affirm one’s journey through textual landscapes, reinforcing self-assurance and the courage to tackle any reading challenge.
Impact: Achieving Confidence (C9) transforms the reading experience from a hesitant engagement to a bold, self-assured exploration of knowledge, enabling readers to embrace the vast universe of literature with enthusiasm and self-belief.
