The Result Oriented Brain fitness Program:

• Based on 30 years of scientific research by eminent Neuro Scientists on “How the Brain Learns”
• Targetsthe underlying difficulties and not just the symptoms
• More than 250 research papers submitted to the credit, proves the efficacy of our program
• The technology in our Programs have more than 80 patents
• Presence in more than 45 countries benefiting over 3,000,000 students

Fast ForWord® is a series of life-changing course that improves foundational cognitive skills, targeting underlying language and reading difficulties, and then improve reading fluency and comprehension for all students.

After completing Fast ForWord® Training students can significantly improve their cognitive, language and literacy skills. Other benefits include:

• Academic Achievement, including sounding out new words and spelling as well as attention span, writing, and math.

• Clear English Language Communication, including oral fluency, pronunciation, vocabulary, spontaneity, and ability to stay on topic.

• Enhanced Reading Skills, including recollection of details and event sequence, ability to understand complex sentences, and confidence when reading aloud.

• Better Listening and Understanding, including response time to questions, ability to follow the flow of conversation, and humor comprehension.

• Stronger Memory, including better retention and recall of phone numbers, event sequences, and details.

• Improved Self-esteem, including participation in classroom and group activities as well as enthusiasm about school

Make gains FAST!

• Improve 1-2 years of language and reading skills within only 2-3 months of training.

Research Validated:

Created form 30 years of research by world-renowned neuro-scientists (Dr. Michael Merzenich, Dr. Paula Tallal, Dr. Steven Miller, and Dr. William Jenkins), currently there are more than 250 research and field trials that validate the impact of Fast ForWord® on students of different needs.

Also proven as an effective language and reading development system by world-leading institutions:

Proven to work:

Through independent research from Stanford in 2003 and Harvard in 2007, we are able to see Fast ForWord create physical brain change as it builds new synapses and strengthens the neural pathways, specifically in the areas of reading.

After just eight weeks of use, weak readers developed the brain activity patterns that resemble those of strong readers.As brain patterns change, significant improvements for word reading, decoding, reading comprehension and language functions are also observed.

All students improve:

• Average students

• High achievers

• ESL

• Struggling Readers

• Dyslexia

• Learning difficulties

• Attention issues

The Science behind Fast ForWord®

Increasing Learning Capacity

Strengthening cognitive skills and building reading fluency

Every educator understands the central role that reading plays in learning. Students who aren’t able to read by third grade face significant academic hurdles and an increased risk of dropping out of school.

That’s why, in developed countries like the US, many states are working to enact legislation requiring retention for students who are not reading at grade level.

The key role that cognitive skills play in learning is less well understood. So we’ve made it our mission not only to apply proven research on how the brain learns, but also to educate educators about how well-developed cognitive skills contribute to successful learning—and how weak cognitive skills detract from learning.

Cognitive Skills: The Missing Piece

Effort to accelerate learning for all students have focused primarily on two points:

• Curriculum standards
• Strategies for individualizing instruction to give learners optimal and repeated exposure to content they haven’t mastered

While these objectives are critically important, they do not directly address the needs of many struggling students:

• Learners who have difficulty paying attention to instruction
• Learners who have difficulty remembering what they are taught

They also do not address the cognitive challenge faced by nearly every learner from English language learners to learners at grade level and above:

• The inability to process information in one or more subject areas as quickly as it is being presented.

Even high-performing students can lose motivation when keeping up with the pace of instruction becomes difficult. But when students’ brains are ready to learn at the pace required in the classroom, there’s nothing that can stop them from what they can achieve.

Thus research shows that there are four key cognitive skills that are essential to make a classroom-ready brain namely Memory, Attention, Processing and Sequencing.

How the Fast ForWord® Program Helps

Neuroscientific research has revealed that with the right input, the brain can change and reconfigure itself throughout life.

That’s why we’ve designed the proven brain fitness exercises in the Fast ForWord® program to help students become better learners – able to pay closer attention to their teachers, absorb information faster, and remember what they are taught.

Developing attention, processing rate, memory, and sequencing together as the Fast ForWord® program does—in combination with great teaching—can have dramatic results:

• Accelerated acquisition of knowledge
• Greater ability to use and organize information from existing curricula
• Increased learner readiness to actively engage in their own education

Fast ForWord®is based on the science of how the brain learns and retains information. It utilizes the principles of neuroscience to exercise and develop the brain’s processing efficiency, essential for academic learning and reading success.

It is a series of computer-delivered brain fitness exercises designed to produce dramatic language and reading improvements in a variety of student populations by improving memory, attention and processing skills. Students work online 30 minutes/day, guided by remote educators. The self-paced software adds speed and complexity in tiny steps, building essential skills in 4-6 months. Fast ForWord® products support existing curriculum—they don’t replace it. When students process more efficiently, every other instructional strategy works better. The results in schools throughout the country are dramatic; students can achieve a one- to two-year gain in reading skills in 8-12 weeks!

Fast ForWord works on four key cognitive skill sets that, when developed together, improve learning and reading. These skill sets are:

• Memory – The ability to store information and ideas.

  Memory is essential for word recognition, comprehension of complex sentences, and remembering instructions. Fast ForWord software enhances working memory, short and long-term memory.

• Attention – The ability to focus on information and tasks, and ignore distractions.

  Fast ForWord products are designed to improve both attention and focus.

• Processing Rate – The rate at which a student is able to accurately perceive and manipulate information.

  In the context of reading, processing rate refers to the rate at which a student can distinguish speech sounds and identify letter and word forms to create meaning. Fast ForWord software increases the rate at which students are able to process incoming information.

• Sequencing – Placing the detail of information in its accustomed order (for example, days of the week, the alphabet, etc.).

  In the context of reading, sequencing is the ability to determine the order of letters within words or words within sentences. Fast ForWord products improve the recognition of the order of sounds, letters, and concepts.

Reading is a demanding activity, calling for many specific events to take place simultaneously in the brain.

The Fast ForWord program applies the discoveries of neuroscience to accelerate these important reading skills:

And because the exercises are based in the science of how the brain works, the results are lasting and often life-changing.

Fast ForWord® Technology

The Learning Process Accelerated

Our patented Fast ForWord® technology helps accelerate learning by boosting the brain’s ability to process incoming information more effectively and efficiently.

It’s called brain plasticity and among neuroscientists, it refers to the brain’s ability to change at any age throughout life.

Our products use patented technologies that leverage the science of brain plasticity. The Fast ForWord® program triggers changes in the brain and provides an optimal foundation for learning and reading success.

Four key components of our technology-based intervention work together to create the dramatic changes in brain function required to achieve universal literacy:

• Frequency and Intensity: Neuroscience research demonstrates that completing a set of learning tasks in a frequent, intense time frame accelerates learning.
• Adaptivity: Exercises adapt with each key stroke to individual skill levels and responses, keeping students continuously challenged but not frustrated.
• Simultaneous Development: Exercises develop major cognitive and reading skills simultaneously to produce lasting improvements in learning.
• Timely Motivation: Tiered rewards are designed to maximize motivation from start to finish.

Our Fast ForWord® LANGUAGE series includes a patented technology that stretches and emphasizes speech sounds at early exercise levels, progressing to natural speech sounds as a student advances to higher levels. This technological ability to “acoustically modify” speech helps students recognize word sounds, first in isolated syllables, then in groups of sounds, then in words, and finally in sentences.

The Fast ForWord® program is recognized as a proven scientifically based reading intervention product at leading educational organizations such as:

• Education Commission for the States
• Milken Family Foundation
• The Metiri Group
• Stanford University,
• Cornell University,
• UCSF Medical Center
• Rutgers University, and many other top Universities

Data independently gathered by schools and educators has shown that with recommended use, Fast ForWord® products get results. Our extensive database of student results show our products have a statistically significant positive effect on a wide variety of student populations, including English Language Learners, Special Education students, academically at-risk students, and students performing below their potential.

More than 250 research studies have been conducted on the efficacy of the Fast ForWord® program, including scientifically based research and independent Fast ForWord® reviews that meet the highest standards of research as defined by the What Works Clearing house within the U.S. Department of Education. Overall, these various evaluations have clearly indicated that combining brain fitness exercises with great teaching and a strong, standards-based curriculum can yield dramatic and enduring improvements in academic achievement. Full research reports show improved test scores using the Fast ForWord® program with diverse student populations.

Students using the Fast ForWord® program can raise their reading skill level up to 2 years in as little as 3 months.

Fast ForWord® is a series of computer-delivered brain fitness exercises designed to produce dramatic language and reading improvements in a variety of student populations by improving memory, attention, processing and sequencing skills. Students work online 30 minutes/day, guided by remote educators. The self-paced software adds speed and complexity in tiny steps, building essential skills in 4-6 months. Fast ForWord® products support existing curriculum—they don’t replace it. When students process more efficiently, every other instructional strategy works better. The results are dramatic as students can achieve a one- to two-year gain in reading skills in 8-12 weeks!

Fast ForWord® uses patented technologies that leverage the science of brain plasticity. The program triggers changes in the brain and provides an optimal foundation for learning and reading success.

Four key components of our technology-based intervention work together to create the dramatic changes in brain function required to achieve universal literacy:

• Frequency and Intensity: Neuroscience research demonstrates that completing a set of learning tasks in a frequent, intense time frame accelerates learning
• Adaptivity:Exercises adapt with each key stroke to individual skill levels and responses, keeping students continuously challenged but not frustrated
• Simultaneous Development:Exercises develop major cognitive and reading skills simultaneously to produce lasting improvements in learning
• Timely Motivation: Tiered rewards are designed to maximize motivation from start to finish.

Students can double their expected reading gains using one of our prescribed protocols:

• Three days per week for 30 or 50 minutes.
• Five days per week for 30, 40, 50, or 90 minutes.

Individualized learning:

• Using patented algorithms, Fast ForWord automatically adapts the intensity, difficulty and rewards within each exercises to suit each learner- in real time, creating a fun, engaging environment required to build new neural connections for improved processing, cognitive and reading skills to deeply change how a child reads and learns.

Building a Processing Brain

Fast ForWord® helps to develop language and reading skills the natural way that brains learn.

Fast ForWord® starts from crucial foundation which is accurately processing English sounds – phonemic awareness, then gradually takes students through higher reading skills:

• Phonics
• Fluency
• Vocabulary
• Comprehension
• Critical thinking, respectively.

Efficient – Effective – Enduring: Wiring the Brain for Academic Gain

Efficient

Students can average a one to two grade level reading gain in 8 to 12 weeks. When the brain’s processing skills become more efficient, substantial and quick gains in reading comprehension skills are often the outcome.

Effective

Fast ForWord software is recognized as a proven scientifically based reading intervention product by leaders in the advancement of learning at top educational organizations. Read Fast ForWord reviews from respected independent educational organizations.

Scientifically based research in education has shown that with recommended protocol use, Fast ForWord products dramatically improve brain processing efficiency and reading skills. With data gathered independently by schools from almost 30,000 students, we have one of the largest databases of user results in education today.

Enduring

Our reading improvement products use patented technologies that leverage the science of brain plasticity. By exercising processing skills through intensive, adaptive activity, actual physical changes occur in the brain. And those physical changes result in enduring gains in language and reading skills, as documented in longitudinal studies.

Easy-to-Use Reports and Indicators

MySciLEARN™ reports for Fast ForWord enable educators to monitor student performance at the individual, classroom/group, school, and district level.

Educators get clear, daily, action-oriented information showing student progress over time in reading and cognitive skills areas, as well as gains reports that correlate to nationally recognized normed assessments. It’s one of the reasons why our learning acceleration programs have been so successful in helping schools and districts meet state and federal mandates.

Implementation Report

Gain Report

Success Forecast

The Success Forecast allows you to explore the potential effects that the Fast ForWord program can have on your district’s reading proficiency levels in as little as one year. Build a plan for your district based on your reading gain achievements and real-world data from thousands of Fast ForWord participants from your state and across the nation.

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