== Theory ==

This emacs mode began life after reading about a dyslexia 
therapy which treats a focus of attention problem.  Apparently
tests show that one, of many, symptoms of dyslexia shows a
difference in how they attend to items that appear in their
visual field.  In particular nondyslexics allocate more
attention to the center of their field of vision while
dyslexics spread their attention more broadly accross the
field.

The therapy works by training the subject (the human mind
is quite plastic) to attend more to the words he is reading
and less to the surround.  In the therapy as describe this
is done by reading text thru a card that has a hole cut in
it showing only a small fragment of the text.  The reader
then slide this card along as they read.  The researchers
report that this is quite effective.

== Usage ==

So, if you load this module and invoke the speed-reader,
usually via M-x sr, you will enter a mode that simulates
this card.  The card will slide along at a constant rate.
You can control that rate with a few key strokes:
  S - slower
  D - pause, or Go
  F - faster
all other regular characters exit the mode.  The mode will
exit of it's own accord when it hits the end of the buffer.
The reading window begins at the point.

There are a number of speed reading techniques that are
analagous to this, for streaming the text out thru a
windw a single word or phrase at a time.  In that situation
you can make the text uch larger if you like.  This mode
doesn't yet support that :(.

== Development ==

This package was last seen to resides at 

  http://code.google.com/...

and you can subscribe to a mailing list!

  ...

== Pointers ==

Summary of the dyslexia symptom, and therapy for that symptom.

http://cbcl.mit.edu/projects/cbcl/people/geiger/memo_complete.pdf