Fast ForWord Language Basics

Designed for young children, four to six years old, it builds the basic skills necessary for language and reading development and prepares them for Fast ForWord Language v2. The product is also useful for students with learning difficulties, including children on the autistic spectrum who have benefited from its systematic approach to developing learning skills.

Through the use of our patented technology this program improves:

Sound sequencing skills
Fine motor skills
Hand-eye coordination
Pattern recognition
Colour/Shape identification

By focusing on early learning skills, Fast ForWord Language Basics software helps young students develop a solid foundation that translates to larger improvements in the classroom, including:

Improved thinking and focus skills
Better visual attention and organization
Solid foundation for reading instruction

Fast ForWord Language Basics improves critical brain processing efficiency in four key areas:
Improves memory by having the student hold a pair or sequence of sounds in working memory while comparing them and/or identifying their order.
Improves visual and auditory attention by developing the ability to focus, ignore distractions, and respond quickly when a stimulus changes.
Strengthens visual processing skills for matching shapes and sensory-motor integration for using the mouse to position shapes.
Develops sequencing skills through exercises that require identifying and reproducing the order of a two-sound sequence.

As a precursor to our Fast ForWord Language v2 product, Fast ForWord Language Basics also builds computer skills and techniques.

What are the Fast ForWord Language Basics exercises like?

Inside The Tummy

Introduces the basic skills that help prepare the younger participant for successful learning in the classroom.

These primary skills include learning to recognize patterns with basic shapes and primary colours, and then learning to manipulate those shapes using a computer mouse.

By matching shapes and colours in the bear’s tummy, a student develops precise visual attention skills as well as improving fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination

The Flying Saucer

Flying Saucer helps develop the ability to identify the order of a sequence of sounds, and helps improve auditory working memory and auditory discrimination skills.

Set in deep outer space, the participant listens to sounds, then clicks flying saucers that are associated with sounds in the same order that the sounds are presented, to develop listening and sequencing skills.

Drag Racer

Drag Racer helps improve sustained auditory attention and auditory discrimination skills.

In Drag Racer, the participant clicks and holds the drag racer to hear a repeated sound, then releases the drag racer when the sound changes.

The following scope and sequence explains the tasks involved, the language and reading skills targeted and the cognitive skills developed.
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