Slow reading speed

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My dd is 12. She's very bright, top of her class for maths and no academic trouble. Her handwriting is fine, she is articulate and organised etc, but she reads really quite slowly. She really noticed the other day that she and her friend were reading the same book and her friend read two or three times as much in the same time. We really have to encourage her to read when given her personality you would put her down as a bookworm.

Does anyone have experience of this? Anything that will help?

Can I just add I came across these on the Mumsnet sen websites - you can search infant reflexes. There are also sound therapy options - I spent money on doing these - but I recommend the brushing more and you can do sound therapy after if the brushing does not help all the reflexes go dormant.

Thank you so so much. My husband has quite severe anxiety and is not very well coordinated etc, so I wonder if it might help him actually. Maybe we can get a whole family discount.

Interestingly from what the therapist tells me infant reflexes not going dormant can be inherited. Our whole family has now gone to the therapist to check our reflexes and we have all started the brushing!