Language at the Speed of Sight
Critical Reviews
“Mr. Seidenberg has that rare knack of sounding reasonable and righteous at the same time. You wish for a longer treatment from him someday of such related challenges as teenage reading, reading on screens and the cognitive neuroscience of something he’s genuinely good at, which is to say, writing.
Mr. Seidenberg’s book won’t end the debate between scientists and the educational establishment over how children should learn to read, but it should jump-start an overdue conversation.”
“Seidenberg makes a convincing case that we have learned more about reading and the bran in the past two decades than in the previous century… Every teacher of young children as well as those to train them should read this book.”
“His approach is pragmatic, myth-destroying and rooted in science – and his writing makes for powerful reading.”