Reading Difficulties

Proven Online Reading Programs

Reading Software / Supervised Remotely

FFW K-12 reading programs use cognitive exercises to:

Reading fluency & comprehension
Boost self esteem and willingness to read

Treat the Source, Not Symptoms Forever
Around 90% of struggling readers are held back by one single brain skill, auditory processing, required for sounding out words accurately and automatically. The brain is plastic -- auditory processing can be exercised and improved. Our reading software, Fast ForWord, taps into this opportunity.

The National Reading Panel states that comprehension should only be taught after reading accuracy and fluency are mastered -- teach a child to pedal a bike before how to change gears.

This is how our Fast ForWord program works, training required reading skills in sequence, starting at the base of the reading pyramid, working up as skills are mastered.

Fast ForWord personalises it's exersises to each student, creating the intensity required to rewire reading skills at your child's pace. It has been used by 2+ million students in 40 countries.

There are three phases:

Build cognitive fundamentals
The first reading program strengthens the auditory processing, phonological awareness, working memory, attention stamina and sequencing skills required for efficient decoding.

Make reading more fluent
The next set of exercises adds text to the mix, training sound discrimination (phonics) and decoding automaticity, as well as helping vocabulary, spelling and language structure.

We will sometimes also insert Reading Assistant software, speech recognition based oral reading practice with real-time word correction and comprehension questions.

Develop reading comprehension
The reading software then presents a series of exercises that adapt to each student, filling in all kinds of reading skill gaps, with a particular focus on reading comprehension and active reading strategies. Exercises escalate in difficulty and sophistication to build robust reading skills and to undo prior bad habits.

Cognitive skills strengthened by Fast ForWord:

Overview of Fast ForWord by Sherrelle Walker

Memory –working, short-term and long-term memory which are essential for word recognition, comprehension and remembering instructions.
Attention –the ability to focus on information and tasks and ignore distractions
Processing Speed –the rate at which we are able to process incoming information. For reading, this is how quickly one can distinguish speech sounds and identify letters and words to create meaning.
Sequencing –the ability to determine the order of letters within words or words within sentences.

Reading & Language skills strengthened by Fast ForWord:

· Phonemic awareness · Sound-letter association

· Decoding Vocabulary

· Spelling Syntax

· Comprehension Grammatical structures

· Passage comprehension Reading fluency

Fast ForWord is based on neuroscience research which tells us:

· Brains can be trained to re-structure (re-wire). “Brain Plasticity” is the ability of the brain to change through experience & learning.
· For the brain to ‘re-wire’, certain conditions must be met. These conditions or “learning principles” have been identified as repetition, adaptivity to a person’s skill level, motivation, and immediate feedback.

· The brain of a struggling reader differs from the brain of a good reader – this has nothing to do with one’s intelligence. Brain imaging studies show which areas of the brain activate in normal and struggling readers. In struggling readers, critical areas of the brain used for reading are not activated as they are with good readers.

Finding a program to address your child's needs is not easy.

In center is expensive & inconvenient
Off-the-shelf software is ineffective
Tutoring does not help long term
Meanwhile, your child is falling behind
More affordable than tutoring.

Our program may be your answer.