Is This Your Child?

Research shows that certain mental exercises can improve the cognitive processes behind many learning issues. Our program was designed with this discovery in mind.

Auditory Processing Disorder

Auditory processing disorder symptoms include difficulty following directions, inattentiveness, and learning or reading difficulties. Fast ForWord software targets these areas directly with exercises that address processing speed and accuracy, memory and sustained attention -- and then reading skills as needed.

Reading Difficulties

Slow or labored reading? Poor reading comprehension? Reading resistance? Fast ForWord targets the underlying causes of reading difficulty, and then fills in individual reading skill gaps.

For younger readers our goal is a strong foundation, working up to fluent reading. For older students and adults, we build reading speed and comprehension along with metacognition, the ability to understand and think critically while reading.

Dyslexia

Almost all dyslexia is caused by an underlying language, memory or processing difficulty. Our primary program, Fast ForWord, used by learning professionals worldwide, works directly on these cognitive skill.

Homework Frustration/Disappointing Grades

Slow or inaccurate reading and other learning inefficiencies can lead directly to long and laborious homework sessions and/or disappointing grades. Our learning programs build the processing, focus and working memory skills required for learning efficiency and independence.

Autism or Asperger Syndrome

The Fast ForWord program has been used widely as an intervention to help children with autism. Its adaptive technology allows students to progress at their own pace with the intensity required to rewire learning.

Attention Deficits

Many focus issues are caused by inefficient processing that is at best, exhausting, and at worst, an impediment to accurate listening and reading. Our programs build processing skills to improve attention.

Language Difficulties or Delays

If your child is five years of age or older and has weak receptive (listening) or expressive (vocabulary, speech language structure, articulation) skills, Fast ForWord can help. It is important to address the underlying causes of language difficulties early, as weaknesses in language almost always carry over into reading problems later.

Executive Function

Executive function is a higher level thinking and planning skill that is often delayed in students with processing deficits. Our program helps automate fundamental processing and memory skills, to free up capacity for higher level skill development. It also exercises the sequencing, working memory and processing skills integral to executive functioning.

Learning Disabilities

Sometimes the difficulties are more generalized and harder to determine. A learning disability may be considered significant, but it can also be described as a gap, a difference in achievement in one area of academics versus another. Depending on your child's profile, we may be able to help or offer alternatives.