Scientific Learning Scientist Holds Australian Seminars on Fast ForWord Products' Effectiveness
Dr. Martha Burns Presents Latest Data on the Neuroscience-Based Learning Interventions
10/25/06
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OAKLAND, CA - 10/25/2006 - Martha Burns, Ph.D., director of the Clinical Specialty Market for Scientific Learning Corporation (NASDAQ: SCIL), last month conducted three well-received seminars in Australia presenting the latest findings on the effectiveness of the company's Fast ForWord® learning intervention products.
Dr. Burns spoke to audiences comprised of educators, professors, speech-language pathologists, parents and reading professionals in the cities of Perth, Melbourne, and Sydney in conjunction with Scientific Learning's two value added resellers in the country, Sonic Hearing and LearnFast. The goal of the Australia efforts, which marked the first time Scientific Learning has conducted seminars in that country, was to educate local professionals about auditory processing disorders and language and reading problems in children, as well as to discuss outcomes achieved with the Fast ForWord products locally.
"We were very pleased with the reception we received," said Dr. Burns. "The Australian educational and clinical community is extremely interested in learning about new interventions for reading and language problems, so we wanted to provide them information in a professional and educational way that highlighted new neuroscience research, discussed how the research impacts education, and finally, how our Fast ForWord products offer a unique and powerful intervention based on this research."
Dr. Burns discussed how the neurologically sound principles behind the Fast ForWord family of products create fast, meaningful, and lasting effects on students' ability to read and learn. The Perth seminar also included the presentation of preliminary data showing the effectiveness of the Fast ForWord intervention in Australian school trials. In addition, a Perth radio station interviewed Dr. Burns about the neuroscientific principles that underpin the Fast ForWord products.
"Dr. Burns was outstanding in these seminars," said Peter Carabi, Scientific Learning's Director of International Market Development. "Her extensive understanding of reading, coupled with her ability to clearly and in layman's terms draw the connection between the neuroscience and the differing needs of students with reading problems, made these audiences very receptive to the Fast ForWord message."
"She was able to present the complex neuroscience in a way that was understandable to the delegates, and her humorous style and examples enabled all of us who work with learning- and reading- disabled children to instantly recognize the types of children she described," added Devon Barnes, Director of LearnFast. "One attendee, a pediatrician, told me that Dr. Burns's 90-minute presentation was more useful than an entire two-day conference he attended recently at Sydney's main children's research hospital!"
About Dr. Martha Burns
Dr. Martha Burns is the Director of the Clinical Specialty Market for Scientific Learning Corporation. She has been a practicing speech and language pathologist in Evanston, Illinois, for over 35 years and is an adjunct Associate Professor at Northwestern University and serves on the professional staff of Evanston-Northwestern University Health Care. She has written three books on language difficulties associated with neurological disorders and a test entitled the Burns Brief Inventory of Communication and Cognition.
About Scientific Learning Corporation
Scientific Learning produces the patented Fast ForWord® family of products, a series of computer-delivered intervention products that build learning capacity by developing the neurocognitive skills required to read and learn effectively. These foundational skills are built through a series of brain-based exercises that create fast, effective, and enduring results. Based on more than 30 years of neuroscience and cognitive research, the Fast ForWord products use patented technology and applications of validated neuroscience principles to help children, adolescents, and adults build the language and reading skills widely recognized as the keys to all learning.
The exercises align with the scientifically based reading-research guidelines and the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act. The efficacy of the products has been confirmed by more than 200 independent research studies.
For more information about Scientific Learning and its products, visit our Web sites at www.scientificlearning.com and www.brainconnection.com, or call toll-free 888-452-7323.
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