Rose concluded that the brain uses the processors it has, as it needs them. The challenge for teachers is that they are faced with students who, at any given moment in class, may be processing the same piece of text or information in different ways. Rose adds that autistic students are excellent decoders and usually read fabulously, but may not get the moral of a story easily. Theirs is a different disability. These recent major findings in neuro-science strengthen the argument that there are considerable individual differences in how we learn.
Parallel processing is the brain using many processors to recognize an image.
The brain operates in parallel, looking for content and context. Rose suggests that by a method of instruction that isolates bits of information, some educators are compromising their student's capacity to comprehend, making learning more difficult. Learning styles are subject to individual differences that must be considered. When we read, we use all of these processors, at various times, to decipher what we are reading. Different interventions are needed to address reading difficulties for different individuals, and individual differences are larger than we used to think.