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Virginia Mann's talk 4-11-08

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New Products Results

News about the positive benefits of our new Literacy and Literacy Advanced products! 

Our newest products were designed with the today’s teen in mind; appealing characters, graphics and themes, enhanced motivational aspects and content improvements…..and recent data now shows….student progress and results are even faster with these great new products. 

• More trials per session provide students with more opportunities to build and improve skills each day. 
  • Students are experiencing significantly more trials per session with Literacy and Literacy Advanced than Middle & High School or Language to Reading.
    • Fast ForWord to Literacy – average increase in trials per session is 16%!
    • Fast ForWord to Literacy Advanced – average increase in trials per session is 26%!

• Students experience bigger benefits and faster progress with Literacy and Literacy Advanced.
  • Students are completing significantly more content per session than with Middle & High School or Language to Reading...
    • Fast ForWord to Literacy – average increase in percent complete per session is 40%!
    • Fast ForWord to Literacy Advanced – average increase in percent complete per session is 19%!

• Improved motivation = engaged students = means more content completed per session = faster progress = greater learning capacity = Better Results!
  • Students taking Literacy are covering significantly more content in less time than students taking Middle & High School.
    • Literacy students took an average of 4.2 less hours to complete 37% more content.
  • Students taking Literacy Advanced are covering significantly more content in less time than students taking Language to Reading.
    • Literacy students took an average of 2.3 less hours to complete 29% more content.

• Faster student progress = more Fast ForWord students per school year or more Fast ForWord products per student!

Great news indeed !

Fast ForWord to Literacy

Fast ForWord to Literacy is now available! Fast ForWord to Literacy, the newest addition to our Fast ForWord family, and a major revision of our successful Fast ForWord Middle & High School product, will take its place as the first product in the Fast ForWord secondary sequence. The goal of Fast ForWord to Literacy remains the same as the product it is replacing, to help secondary school students or adults strengthen the foundational cognitive, language, and reading skills they need to succeed in the classroom and become better readers and learners.

New Product Fast ForWord Literacy

Fast ForWord to Literacy is now available! Fast ForWord to Literacy, the newest addition to our Fast ForWord family, and a major revision of our successful Fast ForWord Middle & High School product, will take its place as the first product in the Fast ForWord secondary sequence. The goal of Fast ForWord to Literacy remains the same as the product it is replacing, to help secondary school students or adults strengthen the foundational cognitive, language, and reading skills they need to succeed in the classroom and become better readers and learners.

Each of the Fast ForWord to Literacy exercises are based on an exercise from Fast ForWord to Middle & High School, just as Fast ForWord to Literacy Advanced exercises are based on Fast ForWord Language to Reading exercises. With the exception of Star Pics (formerly Cards), each of these exercises relates to an exercise in Fast ForWord to Literacy Advanced, which refines and extends the skills developed in the Literacy exercise.

We identified areas to improve in Fast ForWord Middle & High School through:
Findings from analysis of usage data
Feedback from customers
Current Fast ForWord design standards

Some of the new features and benefits include:

Feature: 29% more content, improved individual adaptivity while leveraging new technology
Benefit: Better academic outcomes; more trials per session; Greater overall gains

Feature: New math & science vocabulary
Benefit: Improvements in math & science scores

Feature: More emphasis on advanced grammatical structures
Benefit: Improvements in expressive language

Feature: Increased demand on listening for comprehension and following directions
Benefit: Better oral language comprehension

Feature: Exercise introductions available in Spanish
Benefit: Easier to use for EAL/ELL students

Feature: New learning modes and improved content for sound-based exercises
Benefit: Higher levels of content completion, faster learning, and improved outcomes

Feature: Interface revisions based on feedback from students, educators and Clinical Professionals
Benefit: Improved Fast ForWord participation and attendance

The Fast ForWord Primary & Secondary Product Sequences for the Language Series are as follows:

Primary Language Series Sequence
(1) Fast ForWord Language
(2) Fast ForWord Language to Reading

Secondary Language Series Sequence
(1) Fast ForWord to Literacy
(2) Fast ForWord to Literacy Advanced

Fast ForWord to Literacy replaces Fast ForWord Middle & High School
Download 10243FFGELitSheet-Literacysheet.pdf

Fast ForWord Product Information Summary

Brochure. we have a 20 page guide that will give you a comprehensive overview of the full range of the products. It is a PDF file (2.6mb). Download 20_page_ffwd_product_brochure_2007.pdf Our Interactive Tour of the products will allow you to see the exercises, how we analyse the data and hear feedback from teachers and students. Click here to enter Broadband is best for this

Research. The Stanford University study told in "The Phonics Bulletin" is one of the most powerful pieces of research that shows us brain plasticity and that the brain can be changed. Effective intervention can provide a life transforming event. Click here to see the report (pdf).
Click on the picture to see a bigger version.

Fast ForWord® Family of Products Tour

The best way to see their effectiveness is to use the products. But here is a video and flash presentation summary that will quickly give you a feeling of their innovation and power.

Here is the link to click to see the Tour.
http://scilearn.zftp.com/slclb/slclb_content.html

It is best viewed using a broadband connection. In 15 to 20 minutes you will understand how Fast ForWord can help you improve your students’ reading and learning skills.
These are the sections and you can navigate using the “skip” and “menu” buttons.

INTRODUCTION (45 secs) A short video outlining the products.

APPLYING BRAIN RESEARCH TO LEARNING PERFORMANCE (5 mins) This includes interviews and an explanation of the development of cognitive skills or LEARNING MAPS, and the methodology.

EXPLORE OUR DYNAMIC READING INTERVENTION PRODUCTS (time varies) These are guided tours of the products from Language to Reading 4 (Reading 5 will be updated and a new adult versions are also available).

• Language Development to Reading Programmes
• Early and Advanced levels
• Young and Older Students

Try some of the exercises for a flavour of the products. You will see how the products systematically address the interventions required. Also notice the use of slowed down speech to help auditory processing.

HELP YOUR STUDENTS BY MAKING DATA DRIVEN DECISIONS. (4 mins). See here how you can track the progress of each and every student. Notice how PROGRESS TRACKER is an invaluable tool for teachers.

HEAR ABOUT LIFE CHANGING RESULTS (Intro 45 secs)
These interviews are from teachers in the USA who outline the benefits that the students gained. They are particularly relevant for schools here. Notice also the research summaries

SEE IMPLEMENTATION IN ACTION ( 75 secs)
Fast ForWord is used in over 4,000 schools and 2,500 clinics. More than 700,000 students globally have benefited from using the products. See a few comments from the implementors.

Further Information
Please email us on info at neuron-learning.co.uk with any specific requests on research, product information, testimonials, prices and so on.

Also you can subscribe to our mailing list by sending a blank email to neuron at getresponse.com.

Regards

John Kerins

john at neuron-learning.co.uk
UK 0207 100 9293 / Ireland 021 455 4449
http://www.neuron-reading.org

PS for further resources please check http://www.neuron-reading.org/resources.htm

Fast ForWord Tour

Fast ForWord Interactive Tour

Fast ForWord uses intensive, adaptive schedules that develop a wide range of critical reading skills, including:

Phonemic awareness / Fluency / Vocabulary / Comprehension / Decoding / Syntax

The dramatic changes in brain function required to achieve effective and enduring results are accomplished through intense, frequent, and consistent technology-based intervention.

See our on-line Flash demonstration to get a better idea of how you can work with the products

http://scilearn.zftp.com/slclb/slclb_content.html
(requires Flash 7.0 or higher)

New Fast ForWord Products

This folder gives up to date and comprehensive details on the Fast ForWord family of products.
It includes Fast ForWord Literacy and Fast ForWord Literacy Advanced.

Download 20page_061206.pdf

Reading Products Matrix

The Fast ForWord to Reading Series builds and strengthens the essential foundational cognitive skills within the context of reading activities. The chart shows the specific skills each product builds in the reading continuum

Click here to see the Matrix (pdf)Download 10158ReadingMatrixSolo.pdf

Fast ForWord Product Information Sheet

Here is a short two page information sheet that explains how the products work

Download ffw_flyer_sciennce_and_reading.pdf