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Special Education

Changing the brain, changing lives.

Learning disabled students drop out of high school at more than twice the rate of their non-disabled peers. Scientific Learning products support students with a range of special needs and abilities.

The Fast ForWord® Program

Because many students enrolled in Special Education programs have moderate to severe learning disabilities, using the Fast ForWord program as a neuro-cognitive intervention can greatly improve their chances of attaining a high school diploma.

The Fast ForWord program can positively impact your Special Education programs in numerous ways:

  • Since Fast ForWord exercises boost the brain’s processing efficiency, they can be an effective solution for Special Education students who are struggling with a wide range of problems, including SLD, dyslexia, auditory processing disorders, autism, and Asperger's Syndrome.
  • When used as a Response to Intervention, the Fast ForWord program can correct many foundational learning issues, and reduce the number of your Special Education referrals.
  • Scientific Learning Progress Tracker, an accountability tool, lets you know if your students are progressing day by day so you can address the situation immediately.

A case study from Stamford, CT, shows how the Fast ForWord program can save districts thousands of dollars in litigation fees and student resources because of the efficient, effective and lasting effects it has on improving a student's reading and learning abilities.

Scientifically based research reports demonstrate the gains made by Special Education students using the Fast ForWord program.

Scientific Learning Reading Assistant™ software

Reading Assistant software provides several features to support students with a range of needs and abilities to help students build their self confidence and enjoyment of reading. Reading Assistant software accommodates the needs of Special Education Students:

  • Using speech verification technology, the software listens and recognizes when readers hesitate or make mistakes on specific words. When the student struggles, the program repeats the word clearly while creating a record of it for the teacher to review.
  • The strictness of the speech recognizer can be modified. Decreasing strictness results in fewer interventions allowing additional processing time for students with disabilities such as dyslexia. This feature can also be used to build confidence in a frustrated, low performing reader.
  • A custom speech model based on a short, one-time reading completed by the student is developed for each user and stored in his or her profile.
  • Scientific Learning Progress Tracker,  allows educators to track students’ fluency growth, pinpoint comprehension skill gaps, listen to audio recordings, monitor student usage, and more.

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