The Reading Focus Card---A Tool No Person With ADHD Should Be Without!
The Reading Focus Card is a reading and learning tool for children and adults challenged with focusing and tracking issues such as ADD, ADHD, and even dyslexia.
Joan Brennan, an experienced educator who invented the Reading Focus Card, says that the tool was developed over a period of several years. The first prototype of the tool actually was created during a remedial reading session with a young student. The device promotes:
• left-to-right eye movement
• isolation of lines of text
• better focus that increases concentration, reading comprehension and retention
• accuracy in column addition, long division, or any other placeholder work
The various features of the tool can help provide reading comfort and/or emphasis when needed. The reading device also addresses the needs of different learning styles.
In May of 2007, a focus study of the Reading Focus Card was conducted in a St. Louis school. It was found that:
• Approximately 10% of the students with no known or diagnosed learning/reading disabilities benefited in some way from using the Reading Focus Card.
• In addition, 90% of the students diagnosed with learning disabilities (such as ADD, ADHD, and dyslexia) experienced strong improvement in the quality of their reading focus and comprehension when using the Reading Focus Card.
The school’s special education teacher was quite impressed with the immediate results achieved for those ADD/ADHD-challenged students who used the tool.
The Reading Focus Card is non-invasive and inexpensive. It can be used together with prescribed medications. The inventor has used the tool successfully with students, especially with those who sometimes have "forgotten" their medication before coming to school. In fact, that is how the Reading Focus Card was born.
The Reading Focus Card is best utilized with regular-sized, paperback books or with large volumes having two columns of printed text on a page (as with social studies, some science, and other content books.) The tool also promotes accurate test taking when machine-scored answer sheets are used.
Because those with attention deficiencies often have issues with organization, loss of possessions, etc., this tool can be stored on a loose-leaf binder ring to prevent loss. The Reading Focus Card can also be placed in any text as a bookmark when not in use. Should loss occur, however, repurchase is not prohibitive because of the tool’s reasonable price ($7.95 each).
The Reading Focus Card is definitely a product every person challenged with focusing issues shouldn’t live without!
I would suggest that before proceeding with any new idea or product, a businessowner should conduct an exhaustive patent search and obtain protection for that idea or product. This protection can take the form of a provisional patent application (1 year before filing a full patent application), or it can be in the form of a full utility or design patent application.
Comments
I have problems concentrating when I am reading. This does exactly what it says, it keeps me focused instead of my mind wondering. What a good investment for saving time!
This tool is great! I have always had trouble improving my reading comprehension. With the focus card, I can now concentrate significantly better on individual words and sentences in a paragraph. Because of this, my retention rate has noticeably improved
This is a great invention! I am no longer frustrated when I read because I never lose my place anymore. It has brought back my love for reading!
What's more, my son has ADHD and had all but given up on reading until I
purchased the Reading Focus Card.
Very clever tool that reduces distractions. Practical in that it's inexpensive and portable - also comes in two sizes. This is a great idea not only for people with ADD, but for anyone who reads a lot and gets fatigued. Wish I had thought of it!
NEW BREAK-THROUGH FOR START-UP LOANS AND EQUITY INVESTMENTS
revised 4-015-2010
A new form of company and a change in IRS regulations will likely open up funding for business start-ups and grow-ups. The type of legal entity is called a “L3C” which is a limited liability company or LLC. They are also called, “social benefit entrepreneurial enterprises” (SBEE). Thus far, Vermont and Michigan have adopted laws which permit the formation of the L3C and similar legislation is pending in several other states as bi-partisan measures. The key is that the L3C is formed for the purpose of social benefits – defined by 501.c.3 laws. Profit cannot be the main purpose, but the law does not prohibit profit distribution to the members of the LLC (which for tax purposes is usually treated as a business partnership).The key result of achieving this status is that 501.c.3's are permitted to invest or loan funds to the L3Cs. The catch is that a prudent donor will want a “private letter” issued by the IRS which recognizes the LLC as a L3C entity. These letters are expensive and time consuming to get. However, there is legislation pending in Congress which changes the method of qualifying. A special unit of IRS will be set-up to deal with these types of qualifications (not the IRS attorneys). Generally a form, correctly filled in, will be submitted to the new unit which will basically rubber stamp its approval, putting the L3C in the proper slot to receive funds from 501.c.3s.
Private foundations are required to disburse five percent of their capital each year. Now those funds are simply given away. The new approach does give the foundations the ability to recoup the principal and earn some return on the principal. This change should generate considerable funding of SBEEs.
To find our more about SBEE L3Cs, please visit Wikipedia.org, at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_entrepreneurship, or Google “social benefit entrepreneurial enterprise”. See Social Velocity at: http://www.socialvelocity.net/2009/02/changing-nonprofit-finance-the-other-side-of-the-story/ A great talk on the subject by Mark Lane, a tax attorney, entitled, [Introducing L3C - Part 1] L3Cs: Social Enterprise's Powerful, New Capital Formation Tool, starts on Youtube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ9uQmVvtjA . Don't miss the question and answer parts.
Maryland has joined the states which now have approved L3C social benefit entrepreneurial enterprises: Maryland First State in Union to Pass Benefit Corporation Legislation, http://www.csrwire.com/press/press_release/29332-Maryland-First-State-in-Union-to-Pass-Benefit-Corporation-Legislation .
A certifying/branding organization has been formed to provide due dilegence and rating of L3C: Become a B Corporation,http://www.bcorporation.net/become
There are several financial institutions which have adopted the B corporation ethics: http://www.bcorporation.net/community/financial
To learn about Social Benefit Investment Exchange (in formation), please visit: Social Benefit Investment Exchange of America, L3C LLC at: http://sbic.wetpaint.com.
Thanks,
Jim Miller
jimmiller5417@yahoo.com
A brilliant tool that many of my students at Sylvan Learning Center have come to appreciate. It helps them focus on the text, rather than letting their mind or eyes wander elsewhere. I highly recommend and will to friends and family!