A study was done at the University of Aberdeen by educational psychologists, teachers and science researchers to determine if there is a link between comprehension and reading speeds. Their hypothesis was that there is a relationship between your comprehension level and reading speed. The study results were published in a well-known academic journal. Researchers have now proven that your ability to comprehend reading material is directly related to your reading speed.

Our parents always encouraged us to excel at academics and be the top of the class. They were correct in their beliefs that enhanced reading speed would lead to increased test scores as well as a better education. Researchers have concluded from a study that interviewed over 9,000 students, parents, and educational professionals, that those who exhibited an improved course reading speed had greater retention of material and concepts as well as finding more time to revise their learning skills.

Researchers however, are not satisfied with all the results of the study. The head of the research team emphasized the need to study further the connection between faster reading speeds and comprehension of the educational curriculums.

An area which could use further research in the nature of the relationship, is what researchers term, breakthrough reading speed. The theory is that there is a threshold for reading speed where cognition is much more than the overall average. Determining what that threshold is would be important if we wish to uncover the true nature of the relationship.

Many factors affect a person's reading speed. However, a few good ways to increase reading speed from child include exposing him or her to the written word early on, and providing lots of reading material. His or her reading speed in childhood is likely to remain the same throughout adult life.

According to this study, Children with unique educational needs can enhance their information retention levels with support from teachers and remedial classes. Increasing the child's reading speed to a point close to the threshold limit will work, so long as there is as much time spent on reading as there is on other remedial aspects.

There has been much research on the linkage between cognition and speed reading by a variety of professionals such as educational psychologists, teachers and cognitive science researchers. Recently a study undertaken by researchers from the University of Aberdeen was published in an academic journal, which appears to prove that comprehension is proportionally linked to the course reading speed. One area that scientists are considering for future search is exploring "breakthrough reading speed." For scientists to uncover just how cognition and class reading speed are related, they must discover the threshold level, provide that it really exists indeed.