E-mail Inbox Crowded? Fast-Reading Specialist Can Help You Clean It Out
January 14, 2006
Wallingford Record-Journal / Wallingford, CT / Reprinted with permission
by Mary Ellen Godin, Record-Journal Business Editor
Wallingford - Thanks to the Internet, more people are facing an avalanche of reading material they've never seen before.
And it's not just in business or work professions. Even grandma gets spam now and people need to learn ways to read faster, absorb more and organize better.
Abby Marks Beale has been helping corporate clients learn to read better and faster for 18 years and has now developed a new program for the general public called Rev It Up Reading.
Beal will make a presentation at the Meriden Public Library Wednesday at 7 p.m. called "10 Days to Faster Reading," based on her book with the same title. She will have book copies available to sign.
"I'm excited to take this program to the public," Beale said from her Wallingford home. "I've been developing it for 18 years."
The Workshop is for any adult reader in any profession, including homemakers and students looking to tune up reading skills. Since most people read with skills they learned in elementary school, many find this a well-needed source of practical information and strategies, she said. The course also includes information about how to read better and faster on screen.
Beale is the founder of The Corporate Educator, the author of a college study skills textbook entitled Success Skills,” strategies for study and lifelong learning. She is also content editor and publisher for “Read More, Faster on Screen,” available both as an e-book and in paperback.
She also has an online course for Barnes and Noble University entitled Speed Reading: Read More in: Less Time.”
Beale said one of the biggest drawbacks for many readers is their own lack of confidence. Too often early school struggles dictate how readers sees themselves later in school and as adults.
"Teachers unknowingly give people complexes," Beale said.
In a speed reading program, students can track their progress with numbers.
Beale has a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and French from Boston University and a master’s degree in adult education from Southern Connecticut State University. She is also pursuing courses in homeopathy and is a member of several state and national speaking, training and reading associations.
“She is one of the few trainers in the United States that offers this type of training,” said Victoria Navin, Community affairs director for the library. “This is valuable to people in many walks of life, college students and people working who have to read large volumes of material.”
In addition to providing tips to help get a handle on their reading and the information overload, library guests can meet a Connecticut author in person and ask questions.
“I thought it was a skill many people would want to hear about,” Navin said.
mgodin@record-journal.com (203) 317-2455
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