The Fast ForWord Family of Programs

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The Problems Children Face

• We all know children who are bright and motivated
  to learn, but hit some kind of a wall when they
  go to school
• They dont seem to make progress, they dont
  listen well, and they have trouble learning to
  read
• So much potential, but how to unlock it?

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Does Your Child...

• Misunderstand what you say?
• Request that information be repeated?
• Give slow or delayed responses?
• Use only a few descriptive words when speaking?
• Seem reluctant to engage in conversations?
• Have difficulty reconstructing a story in its
  appropriate order?

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In School, Does Your Child...

• Have difficulty remembering/following oral
  instructions?
• Not remember the question when called upon in
  class?
• Have difficulty with ambiguous language or
  idioms?
• Have difficulty with phonics, reading or
  spelling?
• Have unexplained behavior problems?

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Slow Language Development

• For a variety of reasons, some children dont
  process the sounds of language well
• They dont register the difference between bah
  and dah
• Their abilities to understand directions and
  sustain attention are weak
• They lack the foundation to link sounds to
  letters

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How Early Language Problems Occur
Due to

• Hearing problems or ear infections (otitis media)
• Genetic inheritance
• Insufficient stimulation
• Many other unknown causes

A child may begin to process sounds
ineffectively. Through repetition, the brain
practices these ineffective patterns, and they
can become ingrained.
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Processing Sound Is a Challenge for the Brain
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Processing Sound Is a Challenge for the Brain
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How New Technology Helps
When the acoustic differences of these two
consonants are stretched to 80 msec., children
with language problems begin to perceive the
difference.

/ba/

/da/
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Frequency (Hz)
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Acoustically Modifying a Sound Creates a Pure
Signal
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Progress Towards Natural Speech
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A Missing Link No One Understood

• The reality is, children cant build their
  reading skills until they have strong oral
  language skills

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Language Problems Often Become Reading Problems

• Children with reading problems in first grade
  tend to fall further and further behind
• Reading problems often persist into adulthood
• - Joseph Torgesen and Patricia Mathes
• Florida State University
• Research for the Florida Department of
  Education

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A Weak Foundation

• Children often manage to work around their
  problems for a while
• By the time a reading problem has been diagnosed,
  teachers and parents are trying to fix reading
  instead of language issues
• No matter what programs and interventions they
  use, they have limited results because they are
  building on a weak foundation of oral language
  skills

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How Fast ForWord Helps

• Fast ForWord computer-based programs train
  students brains to process better and faster
• Beginning with oral language processing, the Fast
  ForWord family of programs build a strong
  foundation for reading and learning

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Fast ForWord Language

• Works by slowing down the sounds to give the
  brain more time to discriminate between them
• Uses modified speech sounds give children a
  clearer signal to use
• Is an intensive program that provides thousands
  of precise repetitions
• Trains the brain to process at faster rates until
  it has created the neural pathways necessary to
  process the natural, rapid sounds of speech

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TOLD CELF Language Quotients
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of children
Z-score
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See More Results

• Learn more about the results achieved by a
  variety of people with the
• Fast ForWord family of programs.
• Visit
• ScientificLearning.com/results

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Game-Like Exercises

• Train the brain through
• Frequency (every day for 6-8 weeks)
• Intensity (90-100 minutes a day)
• Adaptivity (adjusting to every key stroke)
• Motivation (a token economy)

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After 6-8 Weeks of Training

• Children can discriminate among subtle sound
  differences and can process information faster
• This leads to better listening, understanding,
  ability to sustain attention, and organizational
  skills
• In turn, this leads to better self-esteem and
  motivation to learn

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Fast ForWord Language(formerly Fast ForWord)

• Uses patented technology to clarify sounds and
  rapidly develop oral language skills that provide
  the foundation for reading, including
• Phonological awareness
• Listening comprehension
• Sustained focus and attention
• Language structures

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Fast ForWord Language to Reading (formerly Step
4word)

• Targets the skills that help students make the
  critical link between spoken and written
  language, including
• Sound-letter recognition
• Decoding
• Vocabulary, grammar and syntax
• Listening comprehension
• Beginning word recognition

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Fast ForWord Reading

• Rapidly and systematically builds reading
  skills, focusing on the skills that correlate
  directly to school curriculum, including
• Word recognition and fluency
• Advanced decoding
• Spelling and vocabulary
• Passage comprehension

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Fast ForWord Middle High School (formerly 4wd)

• Rapidly reinforces the skills critical for
  fluent reading and communication for older
  students, including
• Sustained and focused attention
• Listening comprehension
• Sequencing and organization

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Fast ForWord Family of Programs

• Has produced substantial gains fast with over
  50,000 students throughout the country
• 1-3 year gains in language and reading in 6-8
  weeks
• Is based on over 25 years of research on how the
  brain learns
• Trains the brain to process better and faster

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What Educators and Parents Are Saying about Fast
ForWord

• One mother called me and said that she
  couldnt believe the change in her daughter.
  Before training with Fast ForWord, the girl never
  read books and was resistant to the very idea of
  reading. Now the mother says she cant get her
  daughter to put the books down! She is reading
  under the covers with a flashlight!
• Rhelda Ball, Principal, Houston,
  TX 
• The results are everything I could have
  imagined they would be and more! Fast ForWord
  did for my daughter what nothing else has done
  for her, and her confidence is at an all-time
  high.
• Mary Chamberlain, parent

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What Children Are Saying about Fast ForWord
Mom, this is the first time I have really read a
social studies chapter with my brain and not just
my eyes! Colin Fast ForWord makes me
feel like I am brand new. Coby It was like
my brain was a seed somebody poured water on, and
it bloomed. Ashley
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For More Information

• Visit Scientific Learnings Web site
• ScientificLearning.com
• Or, call toll-free
• 888-665-9707