Nothing could be more destined to fail with poor readers. Other good readers teach endless amounts of structured phonetics which, while initially necessary, never deals with the specific mechanical and neurological processing difficulties in actual reading faced by many poor readers. A third group believes in endless amounts of TLC or whole language, both of which are well meaning but do not provide the necessary tools. Proportional Reading takes a completely different approach. Proportional Reading simultaneously provides ten major tools to instantly functionally compensate for 20 weakness in poor reading.
Results are immediate.
To begin with, no eye motion is required. Eye motion problems instantly disappear. As a result no words are skipped. This is possible because in silent reading words are presented on the screen one at a time, centered justified. Decoding errors drop dramatically and instantly.