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Fast ForWord
Dr. Mike Merzenech | Dr. Bill Jenkins | ||
Dr. Paula Tallal | Dr. Steve Miller |
Fast ForWord builds learning capacity by applying neuroscience principles to strengthen cognitive skills. It is exercise for the brain. It creates neuropathways that were either never developed at a young age or not strong enough to fire quickly.
Efficient, Effective, and Enduring
Most students 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 skills are often the outcome.
It is recognized as a proven scientifically based reading intervention product by leaders in the advancement of learning at top educational organizations.Uses patented technologies that leverage the science of brain plasticity. By exercising processing skills through intensive, adaptive activity, actual physical changes occur in the brain (creates new neuropathways). And those physical changes result in enduring gains in language and reading skills.
Who benefits from Fast ForWord?
Students struggling with reading, language, and learning problems, including children with autism and Asperger's Disease, dyslexia, special-education populations, English language learners, and students who do not struggle with these issues. It has been proven to increase the retrieval rate of information so students taking the SATs are able to retrieve information quicker and thereby score higher. In short, everyone!
For additional information or a presentation in your district, please contact: Nancy Schmidt nschmidt@cnyric.org; (315) 433- 8358
To learn more about Fast ForWord, please visit their Website, Scilearn.com
Children of the Code
This web site is a phenominal resource to help us understand the entire scope of reading issues. According to the U.S. Department of Education, more than 60% of K-12 school children are reading below the level needed to proficiently process the written materials used in their grade levels - reading below the level necessary for the brain-work of reading to be transparent to the mind-work of learning from what they are reading. But along with reading problems, children develop "mind shame" which compounds the problem.
Please listen to Dr. Mel Levine's interview on the "ripple effects" of reading difficulties to have a better understanding of how this is all inter-related.
CNYRIC and SciLearn has teamed up to provide many different Webinars for you. Please click on the below link to see those offerings as well as listen to past Webinars.
Fast ForWord Professional Development Offerings 2012
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