Herb Altman, PhD, has served as adjunct professor, university counselor, director, supervisor, consultant, and has taught philosophy, psychology, English, Latin, Russian history, and English research. He is also the author of a book on the causes of political extremism.
Herb’s PhD thesis (UC Berkeley) achieved honors from three UCB graduate departments for having proved what his advisor, a Professor Emeritus, said “…couldn’t be done.” The dissertation redefined the nature of intelligence and provided a method which, when integrated with operational relations, could reliably test anyone, in any area, for developmental maturity.
Herb feels that the greatest cause of school failures and dropouts lies in the “teaching” of reading in the elementary schools. Having observed countless “remedial sessions” in elementary and high schools, Herb concluded, “None of them get it right.” So…
Synthesizing input from psychology, cognition, philosophy, group psychology, set theory, and physics, Herb devised an approach which puts primary emphasis on the workings of the child’s brain. Understanding what is real and what is not, and how the child can interpret either, forms the bulwark of ReadBySound.