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Cecil Adams’s “The Straight Dope” column [February 14] contends that speed reading is not the answer to technical reading overload. Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics agrees. Yet the reading improvement method distilled by Evelyn Wood from her studies years ago provides a key component in a specialized technical reading program offered by Chicago-based American Learning Corporation (ALC).
Meanwhile, there are more than a million graduates of the widely popular Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics, including the staffs of Presidents Kennedy, Nixon and Carter. For those graduates who continue to exercise their skills, the program yields an invaluable advantage in plowing through mounds of reading they confront in their daily lives. Reading Dynamics is not intended for those doing textual analyses of Shakespeare’s plays, but it can be vitally important to anyone beset by demands of the “Information Age.”
