Fast ForWord Program
Scientific Learning Corporation
Our Fast ForWord Program is part of our Title 1 program. It helps students accelerate their learning by developing their brains to process more efficiently. Fast ForWord software is a neurological reading intervention product that applies neuroscience principles to build learning capacity. The program builds cognitive skills necessary for reading (memory, attention, processing, and sequencing), and develops reading skills (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension). Our students in grades 3rd – 5th rotate in our computer lab each day to work on their assigned tasks.
"Some people...being grown, forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child." John Steinbeck, 1962 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature
Fast ForWord Language v2
Types of Tasks students do:
| Sky Gym |
Targeted Language and reading skills: Listening accuracy, auditory
sequencing
Cognitive skills developed: Working memory & visual symbol-sound
associations from long term memory, sustained and focused attention,
auditory processing, sequencing ability
Helps improve the speed at which a student identifies and understands
rapid, successive changes in sound (listening accuracy), and the ability to
recognize and remember the order in which a series of sounds is presented
(auditory sequencing). |
| Moon Ranch |
Targeted Language and reading skills: Phonological fluency,
Phonological memory
Cognitive skills developed: Working memory, sustained and focused
attention, auditory processing
Helps improve the ability to identify and manipulate speech sounds in a
quick and efficient manner (phonological fluency), the ability to remain
focused on a given task while ignoring distractions and refraining from
impulsive behavior (sustained attention), and the capacity for holding
speech sounds in memory (phonological memory). |
| Hoop Nut |
Targeted Language and reading skills: Phonological fluency,
Phonological memory
Cognitive skills developed: Working memory, focused attention, auditory
processing
The students listen for a target syllable. It helps improve the ability to make
correct distinctions based on individual phonemes (phonological accuracy),
the ability to identify and manipulate speech sounds in a quick and efficient
manner (phonological fluency), and the capacity for holding speech sounds
in memory (phonological memory). |
| Whalen Match |
Targeted Language and reading skills: Auditory word recognition,
Phonological memory, phonological fluency
Cognitive skills developed: Auditory & visual spatial working memory,
sustained and focused attention, auditory processing
The exercise helps improve the ability to accurately identify spoken words
by relying on sound cues alone, without the aid of visual or context cues
(auditory word recognition). It also helps develop the capacity for holding
speech sounds in memory (phonological memory), the ability to identify
and manipulate speech sounds in a quick and efficient manner (phonologi-
cal fluency), and the ability to make correct distinctions based on
individual phonemes (phonological accuracy). |
| Robo-Dog |
Targeted Language and reading skills: Auditory word recognition,
Phonological fluency, phonological vocabulary
Cognitive skills developed: Working memory & visual symbol-sound
association from long term memory, focused attention, auditory processing
The exercise presents words that differ by initial or final sound or both. It
helps build knowledge of the phonological structure and meaning of words
(vocabulary), and helps develop the ability to accurately identify spoken
words by relying on sound cues alone, without the aid of visual or context
cues (auditory word recognition). |
| Elle-Bot |
Targeted Language and reading skills: English Language conventions
and vocabulary
Cognitive skills developed: Working memory & visual symbol-sound
association from long term memory, sustained and focused attention,
auditory processing, sequencing ability
Students improve their understanding of the relationship between words, grammar, and meaning (language structures). It also helps increase the
Speed at which the student identifies and understands rapid, successive
Changes in sound (listening accuracy). |
| Space Commander |
Targeted Language and reading skills: Following directions
Cognitive skills developed: Working memory, listening accuracy,
sustained and focused attention, auditory processing, sequencing ability
This exercise helps improve the ability to listen to spoken directions of
increasing length and complexity, comprehend them, and keep them in
memory long enough to plan and carry out the required action (working
memory). It helps increase the speed at which the participant identifies
and understands rapid, successive changes in sound (listening accuracy). |
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