Fast ForWord

Reading & Learning Program At Home

  Helps reading, language and learning difficulties including dyslexia, auditory processing disorder and autism

  Over 1 million students helped, >240 research studies, 55 patents

  Significant gains in reading, grades, confidence and learning independence

  Home based, avoiding need for clinic or center visits

Fast ForWord software is a series of eleven learning and reading programs that first target the primary cognitive causes of difficulty and then train reading fluency and comprehension skills for K-12 children and adults.

Intensive Protocols
Most students complete a customized protocol of 3-4 Fast ForWord programs, in sequence, over 3-8 months. The exercises use powerful algorithms that adapt to every click, adding speed and complexity at the student's own pace. It's an engaging experience that generates the intensity required to create new neural connections, and truly change how a student reads and learns.
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Multi Discipline Research Based
The Fast ForWord program uniquely draws on several disciplines -- cognitive research, neuroscience, linguistics, and natural learning science -- to develop a comprehensive approach unlike any other program. By directly correcting underlying problems, Fast ForWord works quickly -- results emerge in only a few weeks -- and has a documented record of success.
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How It Works

About Our Service
Students work at home for 30 minutes a day, five days a week, for 3-8 months. Our education professionals monitor progress remotely, providing constant support and guidance, backed up with online rewards, online materials and weekly reports. It's a convenient, affordable and client friendly service available anywhere in the US and Canada.
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Fast ForWord Software Design
The software is based on cognitive research findings, targeting the primary causes of reading difficulty, aiming to remove impediments to learning, to make learning and reading easier and more efficient. The exercises themselves use the neuroscience principles of frequency, intensity, and shaping -- progress in tiny incremental steps. Each day the student is prompted to make hundreds of increasingly complex decisions in quick succession. Once mastered, these new skills are used every day and so they endure.
The cognitive software science

The reading fluency and comprehension exercises use natural learning science, an adaptive discovery approach that mimics the way skilled readers naturally "get" reading, including vocabulary, spelling and language structure skills, required for reading fluency and comprehension.
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Fast Acting
The Fast ForWord product name is a play on fast for words and fast forward, emphasizing the fast results. Rather than years of extra help and instruction to work around an underlying cognitive difficulty or delay, the program aims to remove the learning impediment, opening the flood gates to higher achievement in many cases in just a few months.

Who Fast ForWord Helps

Symptoms of reading and learning difficulty -- shaped by the personality, IQ, education, and other factors unique to each child -- vary greatly, but the underlying cognitive causes are familiar, and treatable. The Fast ForWord reading program starts by addressing the common learning impediments.
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Fast ForWord For Reading

Fast ForWord starts at the foundation of the reading skills pyramid, consolidating skills at each level and then progressing.

The first one or two programs (depending on age and need) build the fundamental cognitive skills needed for reading. Students then move to a series of reading programs, done in sequence, that move students up the pyramid, developing reading fluency and reading comprehension skills.
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Fast ForWord For Learning

By speeding up auditory processing Fast ForWord effectively slows the world down for students, making following instructions and learning easier. Students experience gains in confidence and improved learning skills leading to homework independence, better grades from better test taking skills, an the ability to engage and follow instruction in class, among other gains.
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Documented Results

Fast ForWord combines the ground-breaking cognitive research of Paula Tallal on how children read and learn with the neuroscience discoveries of Dr. Merzenich's whose work on brain plasticity and how best to coax the brain to adapt and learn differently is world renowned.
Reasons to trust that Fast ForWord works

There are a literally hundreds of documented Fast ForWord studies that show its consistent ability to help students at varying academic levels.
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Find Out If We Can Help

The ultimate measure of Fast ForWord is our client satisfaction rate: 96.8% of clients say they would recommend us to others. However, every child is different. To find out if your child is a candidate for our program, call for a free consult Monday-Friday, 9AM to 6PM EST, or request a different time here:
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