Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Struggling readers with ADHD, made gains in reading fluency after Fast ForWord participation
The results suggest that children with poor language performance benefited from intensive computerized training regardless of co-occurring behavioral disorders such as ADHD.
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Auditory Processing
Struggling readers with auditory processing disorders, made gains in reading fluency after Fast ForWord participation
After using Fast ForWord Language the APD group demonstrated significant gains in both skill areas, moving into the average range in sight word reading ability and phonemic decoding ability.
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Autism
Students with developmental delays made significant gains in their language ability
Following Fast ForWord participation, students with Autism Spectrum Disorder reached the average range in auditory discrimination skills and their overall language ability improved by approximately one year.
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Aspergers
Most professionals and parents believe that auditory processing disorders are a core component of the attention, memory and language difficulties of children with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome.
Read an article by Dr Marty Burns, published in Autism Asperger’s Digest magazine.
Dyslexia
Dyslexic children’s scores went up in a number of language and reading tests
John Gabrieli of Stanford University said. “The study supported the idea that for some children, getting training on just simply processing rapid sounds is a route to becoming much more fluent and capable readers,”. In addition, activation of the children’s brains fundamentally changed, becoming much more like that of good readers.
- Read the Stanford University report on the research.
- Read the Phonics Bulletin article.
- Read the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science in the USA report.
“Sound training rewires dyslexic children’s brains for reading”
The brains of the children with dyslexia changed after completing exercises in a computer program known as Fast ForWord Language. Brain imaging studies in the Harvard Medical School / Children’s Hospital Boston show significant positive results.
Welsh Assembly Rapporteur Group on Dyslexia
“The Dyslexia Rapporteur Group was particularly impressed by the Fast ForWord® computer based products and the experience of these products in the Everett Public Schools for the following reasons:…….. “The key features of Fast ForWord were highlighted in the report: scalability, replication, teacher efficiency, adaptability, engagement for students……………”The Rapporteur Group were impressed by the Fast ForWord® Progress Tracker which is an online data analysis and reporting tool that enables teachers to monitor individual, classroom and school performance of students working with Fast ForWord® products.”
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English as an Additional Language
What Works Clearninghouse
The US Department of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse has evaluated Scientific Learning Corporation’s Fast ForWord® Language product based on a study that met its highest evaluation criteria, and has concluded that the product is in the top tier of interventions aimed at English Language Learners (ELL).
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Dramatic Improvements in English Language Skills by German Students.
Middle school students in Planegg, Germany, who used Fast ForWord products at the end of the 2004-2005 school year made significant improvements in English language and auditory skills. Auditory Perceptual Quotient scores improved from an average of 62 to an average of 80.
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