EDUCATORS
 The Fast ForWordŽ family of products develops the critical thinking, listening, and reading skills that are necessary for success in the classroom, the workplace and in everyday life.
Based on over twenty-five years of brain research, Scientific Learning's interactive, adaptive products use patented technology to target the language and reading skills widely recognized as the keys to all learning.
Scientific Learning products use neuroscience principles to create an optimal learning environment that enables you to:
- Simultaneously develop multiple skill sets to maximize learning
- Identify reading and language difficulties
- Attack the underlying causes of these difficulties
Who are Scientific Learning's
products for?
Scientific Learning's family of products are for anyone who wants to improve language, reading and overall communication skills. From children who struggle with basic language skills or attention problems to adults who want to improve reading comprehension and organizational skills, Scientific Learning's products have something for everyone.
Because each individual's needs are different, it is important to determine the individual's specific skill set in deciding eligibility for specific products.
Currently Fast ForWord programs are in 2,400 school districts in the United States, serving over 65,000 students.
What are the products and packages?
Scientific Learning's family of products use the latest brain research to develop a wide range of early learning, language and reading skills: from letter identification and rhyming to vocabulary and story analysis.
Fast ForWordŽ Products
Fast ForWordŽ Language
Develops the fundamental language skills that are building blocks for reading success.
Fast ForWordŽ Middle & High School
For adolescents and adults who want to improve thinking, listening and reading skills.
Fast ForWordŽ Language to Reading
Rapidly builds the skills critical for learning to read or become a better reader.
Fast ForWordŽ to Reading
Rapidly and systematically builds the reading skills that correlate to school curriculum standards.
Reading Edge
Developed by reading experts from Harvard, Stanford and Johns Hopkins to measure the language and early reading skills that are necessary for success.
Fast ForWordŽ Basics
Skill building exercises and assessment tools developed by leaders in brain research to improve the critical early learning skills that every child needs for success.
Fast ForWordŽ Bookshelf
An award winning, multi-media reading kit of original storybooks and stories on CD that offers students a fun early reading adventure.
Fast ForWordŽ Product Packages
The Fast ForWord product packages give educators a quick and easy way to get started with Fast ForWord products.
Site Licenses
With packages for students in Primary 1 through Secondary 3, the Fast ForWordŽ family of products site license is a comprehensive and customized suite of products and services that give you tools to help your students in all areas of learning.
Workstation Licenses
For more limited implementation, Workstation licenses are also available for students in Primary 1 through Secondary 3. The Fast ForWordŽ family of products workstation license allows access to a customized suite of products available on one computer.
Fast ForWord Early Literacy Classroom/Lab Pack
This easy-to-use bundle of software products for Primary 1 and 2 can complement current curriculum, helping young students prepare for the everyday learning challenges of school.
How do I know that these products work?
The Fast ForWordŽ family of products are based on over twenty-five years of brain research from leaders in neuroscience, reading and language.
Students and adults have seen significant gains in language and reading after using Scientific Learning products. A vast outcomes database, which includes independent findings from educators and clinical professionals across the country, confirms the effectiveness of these products.
Improvements in Reading Gains, Revised
Improvements in Language Gains
Independent evaluations of Fast ForWordŽ Language outcomes include the Education Commission of the States (ECS), which designated Fast ForWord Language software as a Promising Practice in Reading and stated in 1999 that "Scientific Learning has amassed an impressive array of research data, case studies and anecdotal information related to the success of Fast ForWord Language software in helping a broad population of children with reading and language problems." The full ECS report can be read at www.ecs.org/ecs/ecsweb.nsf.
The Milken Family Foundation analyzed Fast ForWord Language software in a 1999 report "Reading Programs that Work" and stated that "Results are impressive; this was one of the few technologies reviewed that conducted solid experimental studies with random assignment to condition both at the clinical and school implementation levels. The technology was highly successful in improving a series of prerequisite reading skills in at risk students". The Milken report is at http://www.mff.org/publications.taf.
Getting Started
Fast ForWordŽ products are available to educators as part of a site license package. Designed for students in Primary 1 through Secondary 3, the Fast ForWord family of products site license package can:
- Assess early language and reading skills (Reading Edge)
- Develop early learning and computer skills (Fast ForWordŽ Basics)
- Intensively develop the language, listening and learning skills that are pre-requisites for reading (Fast ForWordŽ Language, Fast ForWordŽ Middle and High School and Fast ForWordŽ Language to Reading)
- Help students practice reading with a multi-media reading kit (Fast ForWordŽ Bookshelf)
- Systematically develop the reading skills that lead to fluency and correlate to school curriculum standards (Fast ForWordŽ to Reading)
- Help educators use the Internet to track progress and view detailed performance reports for a particular student or an entire classroom (Fast ForWordŽ Progress Tracker)
In addition, each site license package includes a number of support resources, including professional development as well as ongoing customer and technical support.
Schools can also complete an order individual (per participant) Fast ForWord product licenses.
For more information about site license pricing for schools and other non-profit organizations, contact Aditi E. Silverstein/Innovative Therapies at +1-540-874-7731 or send an email at innovativetx@att.net.
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