Fast ForWord Program Descriptions

Cognitive Training & Reading Software Overview

Fast ForWord is a series of 10 programs, with 50+ games, in two over-lapping phases, typically completed in 4-8 months:

1. Cognitive Training Software. Exercises that treat the underlying cognitive weaknesses that impede reading and learning progress.


2. Reading Software Series. Develops reading speed and comprehension skills, using a series of age appropriate games that also fill in spelling, vocabulary and other skill gaps.

Protocols By Age
Gemm Learning develops an individualized protocol for each student, selecting age appropriate Fast ForWord programs for elementary and middle and high school.

Program Descriptions

Fast ForWord Language v2

Fast ForWord Language v2 and the teenage/adult version, Fast ForWord Literacy, are the most important Fast ForWord programs -- they are completely sound and spoken language based, setting the foundation for the reading programs that follow. Targeted cognitive skills include processing speed, attention stamina, working memory and sequencing.
Fast ForWord Language v2

Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2

Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2 adds syllables in text form to the mix, and continues to target fundamental reading and learning skills in an effort to correct any weaknesses that will impede reading success. It aims to take essential learning skills as far as they will go.
Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2

Fast ForWord to Literacy and Literacy Advanced

These two cognitive skill programs are adolescent/adult versions of Fast ForWord Language and Language to Reading. They have a cool, space age feel to them, to keep middle and high schoolers and adults engaged.

The goals of Literacy and Literacy Advanced are to improve language processing so that a student can automate decoding, to make an exhausting reading style more efficient, freeing up brain capacity for much stronger reading comprehension.
Fast ForWord Literacy

Fast ForWord Reading Series

The second phase of the Fast ForWord reading program is a series of age appropriate programs, escalating in difficulty and sophistication, that aims to undo bad reading habits and reset a reading foundation capable of handling the escalating difficulty of reading comprehension through the grades.

Reading level 1 is for Kindergarten to 2nd grade, and from there the programs progress to Reading Level 5, which is primarily aimed at 6th grade through adult. Common themes in all Fast ForWord reading programs are fundamentals such as spelling, coupled with exercising the higher level skill of critical thinking while reading.
Fast ForWord Reading series in detail

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