Often caregivers who have a lot on their plates, still want to increase their opportunities to learn. Whether it’s about things that concern their careers, their home lives or their caregiving responsibilities; reading through necessary documentation can be a time consuming project that’s hard to find time for. In order to address this challenge, caregivers can increase their reading speed by trying out the following tips and techniques:

1. Learn active reading – often when reading our minds drift away and we’re not totally engaged in what’s in front of us on the pages. Try to more actively engage your mind by taking notes, doodling keywords or underlining key words in passages. This will also help to engage your memory

2. Try a reading software – software programs like EyeQ teach you how to physically read faster by helping you learn how to move your eyes back and forth more quickly when reading

3. Try a technique called Photoreading – if you’re reading for the sake of gathering specific information alone from a document, you can increase your reading speed with this technique which teaches you to focus on what you want to get out of the book or document

Sources:

1. Gaia

2. Nina Potter

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