Scientific Learning products support the four areas of reform outlined by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act:
1. Making progress toward rigorous standards and high-quality assessments that are valid and reliable for all students, including English language learners and students with disabilities;
- Scientific Learning’s products are aligned with all state language arts and ELL standards and have helped students reach appropriate grade levels.
- We have a proven track record of helping Title I, ELL, and Special Ed students and making them ready for college and career.
2. Building data systems to track progress and foster continuous improvement from Pre-K to college
- Scientific Learning’s products are successfully implemented in Pre-K, K–12 and higher education, providing a progressive and systematic series of intervention products that integrate well with and support other school curriculum.
- The Fast ForWord READING Series provides a wide range of skills development, from pre-reading skills to higher order skills like critical thinking and abstract reasoning.
- Progress Tracker, our Internet-based data analysis and reporting tool, fits any school’s student progress tracking system, and its daily, detailed reports help foster continuous student improvement.
3. Making improvements in teacher effectiveness and in the equitable distribution of qualified teachers for all students, particularly students who are most in need;
- Scientific Learning's neuroscience based professional development trains teachers to teach more effectively.
- Our educational software products ready student’s brains to learn the curriculum teachers offer them.
4. Turning around the lowest-performing schools with intensive support and effective interventions
- Scientific Learning has a background of over 30 years of neuroscience research and over 10 years of school site studies of effectiveness.
- Our products have been shown to be proven intervention strategies for many schools, including those that are the lowest performing.
- The Fast ForWord LANGUAGE and Fast ForWord LITERACY Series', with their cutting edge, neuroscience designed adaptivity and acoustically modified and enhanced sound, have been used successfully by students in low-performing schools in order to improve their cognitive skills, oral language skills, and reading skills in as little as 4–16 weeks.