The modern computer equipped with new software makes possible instant reading improvement for deaf individuals. Students read by looking at a visual simulation of speech. They feel they are being read aloud to, even though there in no actual sound. Fluency is possible for the first time for many deaf individuals.
Improvement occurs within the first five minutes.
Skills are transferrable. Repeated testing has shown that deaf individuals receive a form of hearing from the visual simulation of speech and that this form of speech provides them with the speech patterns and cognitive patterns inherent in writing, which they have missed earlier. Students can read text silently without moving their eyes at up to 700 words per minute while they hear an internal voice read out loud to them. They can create notes, five level outlines and two sided flash cards without any retyping of text. They can review text easily and quickly.