School District 16 Selected As First Canadian National Reference Site by Scientific Learning
5/31/10
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Oakland, Calif. — May 31, 2010 — Scientific Learning (NASDAQ:SCIL), creators of the Fast ForWord® family of products, has named School District 16 of Miramichi, New Brunswick as its first Canadian National Reference Site. School District 16 joins a distinguished group of districts across the United States that exemplify the outstanding use of Fast ForWord, a family of educational software products that accelerate learning by improving the processing efficiency of the brain.
As a National Reference Site, School District 16 will serve as a resource for other Canadian school districts seeking advice on how to best use the Fast ForWord program to build brain fitness and increase students’ reading proficiency. The district will also participate in research to help Scientific Learning enhance the effectiveness of its products and services.
According to Andy Myers, president and CEO of Scientific Learning, School District 16 was named as Canada’s first National Reference Site due to its continuing commitment to increasing student achievement in reading, exemplary implementation of the Fast ForWord program, and strong results. The district has been successfully using the Fast ForWord software since 2002. General education students and struggling learners work on the research-based software 50 minutes a day to help build the cognitive skills — memory, attention, processing rate and sequencing — essential for learning and reading success. In addition, all second grade students use the Fast ForWord program to help prepare for the second grade provincial reading exam.
“We have had great success for a number of years now with Fast ForWord in School District 16,” said Superintendent Lawrence Keoughan. “Test results have been impressive. Our district is extremely happy to have been selected as a National Reference Site for Scientific Learning. We know it will give our students the upper edge in developing their literacy skills. This endeavor is certain to be a remarkable success.”
About School District 16
New Brunswick School District 16 is located East Central New Brunswick, Canada. School District 16 is made up of 21 schools and three alternate sites. It is comprised of approximately 6,000 anglophone students who live in rural and small urban areas, as well as six First Nations communities. Nine schools in the district offer French Immersion programs to approximately 1,100 students from grades three through 12. There are approximately 436 teachers employed in the district. There are almost 600 First Nations students enrolled in District 16, the highest enrollment in the province.
About Scientific Learning Corp.
Scientific Learning creates educational software that accelerates learning by improving the processing efficiency of the brain. Based on more than 30 years of neuroscience and cognitive research, the Fast ForWord® family of products provides struggling readers with computer-delivered exercises that build the cognitive skills required to read and learn effectively. Scientific Learning Reading Assistant™ combines advanced speech recognition technology with scientifically-based courseware to help students strengthen fluency, vocabulary and comprehension to become proficient, life-long readers. The efficacy of the products has been established by more than 200 research studies. For more information, visit www.scientificlearning.com or call toll-free 888-358-0212.
This press release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to the safe harbor created by the federal securities laws. Such statements include, among others, statements relating to the school districts’ future activities as a National Reference Site and the results projected to be achieved through that participation. Such statements are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties. Actual events or results may differ materially as a result of many factors, including but not limited to: the resources available to and other factors impacting the school district, the resources the district devotes to the program, the availability of suitable research projects, and other risks detailed in Scientific Learning’s SEC reports, including but not limited to the Report on Form10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2010 (Part II, Item 1A, Risk Factors), filed April 28, 2010.
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