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Learning software developed by Rutgers-Newark scientist helps 450,000
students with reading.
About 450,000 children spread among 2,700 public school districts in 25 states (USA) all have something in common: They've used educational Fast ForWord software products developed from research that began in the lab of Rutgers-Newark professor of neuroscience Paula Tallal.
Medical News Today
April 19th 2005 Medical News Today
"The Fast ForWord games are like mental aerobics "
"Designed to strengthen weak connections in those parts of the brain
that support language skills"
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July 5th 1999 © Time Magazine
After a four week period, exercised brains showed
a leap of as much as two years’ worth of language ability”
“They devised a CD ROM game for dyslexic children called FastForward (sic) which is played fifteen hours each week. It trains their brains to register the quick changes between one sound and another in normal speech. After a four week period, exercised brains showed a leap of as much as two years’ worth of language ability”
Robert Winston “the human mind”
Published 2003 © Bantam Books Page 129.
Fast ForWord seems to be effective
Fast ForWord seems to be effective. It improves
understanding of spoken language in about 90% of children with language
problems; preliminary evidence suggests that the game may also have a big
impact when it comes to improving reading.
The Economist
Dec 4th 1997 © The Economist (subscription required)
“Fast ForWord does something quite a bit
more revolutionary than your run-of-the-mill educational CD: it rewires
brains.”
Newsweek
January 1st 2000 © Newsweek
Dr. Paula Tallal - Neuroscience, Phonology and Reading: The Oral to Written Language Continuum
Children of the Code
www.childrenofthecode.org
Interview by David Boulton
Brains of dyslexics can be "rewired"
Rutgers-Newark Provost's Annual Report 2002-2003
( see p.10)
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2003
The Mutable Brain
Scientific American 
www.sciam.com
by Marguerite Holloway
September, 2003
Dyslexia: Lost for words
Nature
www.nature.com
by Glenn Murphy
September 30, 2003
Changes in Brain Function in Children with Dyslexia after Training
The Phonics Bulletin
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phonicsbulletin.info 
by Elise Temple
May, 2003
Brain scans show reading aid helps dyslexics
CBC News
www.cbc.ca
February 25, 2003
Remediation training improves reading ability of dyslexic children
Stanford Report 
news-service.stanford.edu
February 25, 2003
ForWord thinking program helps improve reading, language skills
The Monroe Times 
www.themonroetimes.com
by Matthew Butler
February 1, 2005
Testing shows computer literacy project works
Milwaukee Journal Sentinal 
by Nicole Sweeney
July 8, 2004
Picking Up Fast
ComputerTimes (Singapore)
computertimes.asia1.com.sg
March 17, 2004
Christina gives reading a boost
The News Journal 
www.newark.rutgers.edu
by Michele Besso
October 18, 2003
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