Fast ForWord Language v2

Fast ForWord Language v2 maps the brain to improve the fundamental cognitive skills of memory, attention, processing, and sequencing, while simultaneously improving reading and learning skills.

Fast ForWord Language v2 is part of the products suitable for primary school children.

Completely redesigned, our new LANGUAGE v2 series includes fun, engaging characters ready to motivate your students to achieve their personal best.

In addition, new built-in supportive tools help struggling students achieve success more quickly. As they build confidence, they will experience faster progress and even better results.

To accelerate reading progress, Fast ForWord Language v2 exercises develop critical brain processing efficiency in four key areas:

Improves memory by having the student hold a statement or question in working memory while retrieving picture-concept associations from long-term memory.
Improves attention by developing the ability to focus on multiple tasks and ignore distractions.
Strengthens auditory and linguistic processing rates so that students can distinguish sounds quickly enough to discriminate individual phonemes and understand words and sentences.
Develops sequencing skills through exercises that require the use of a logical word order to comprehend simple and complex instructions and organize a response that follows the specified sequence of actions.

Individual progress is evaluated and reported in Fast ForWord Progress Tracker. Through the patented technology of acoustically modified speech, the Fast ForWord Language v2 product develops the cognitive skills that give struggling readers the solid foundation they need to learn to read. Skills developed in the context of reading include:

Listening Accuracy
Phonological Awareness
Language Structures

What to Expect from Fast ForWord Language

Improved reading foundation
Improved listening comprehension
Improved thinking
Improved fluency

Students are prepared to listen, think, learn to read or become better readers. Students are prepared to learn and benefit from good instruction and curriculum, and improve their achievement levels.

Fast ForWord Language software adapts to individual skill levels and responses, adjusting the learner's content exposure and targeting correct responses approximately 80% of the time, which maintains challenge and motivates success... to get results in as little as 6-12 weeks!

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

What are the Fast ForWord Language v2 exercises like?

The Fast ForWord Language v2 product consists of seven exercises: three sound exercises and four word exercises. The exercises work together to help develop the understanding of basic speech sounds as well as the fundamental cognitive skills essential for learning and reading.

The sound exercises present complex auditory information in a sub-word format, such as frequency sweeps and syllables. In some instances, the speech sounds have been digitally generated using patented methods (including selective intensity increases and duration extensions) to provide enhanced learning opportunities. These are the three sound exercises:

• Sky Gym
• Moon Ranch
• Hoop Nut

The word exercises present words, either in isolation or within sentences, with various levels of linguistic complexity. In some instances, the speech sounds have been digitally altered using patented methods (including selective intensity increases and duration extensions) to provide enhanced learning opportunities. These are the four word exercises:

• Whalien Match
• Robo-Dog
• Ele-Bot
• Space Commander

Sky Gym

Sky Gym: Students differentiate between sweep sounds to improve sequencing skills, sound processing and working memory.
The object of Sky Gym is to help Gymbo the athlete train and generate power for the gym by correctly identifying a sequence of two sound sweeps
Sky Gym helps improve the speed at which the participant identifies and understands rapid, successive changes in sound (listening accuracy), and the ability to recognize and remember the order in which a series of sounds is presented (auditory sequencing).

Moon Ranch

The object of Moon Ranch is to correctly identify when a new syllable interrupts a repeated syllable
Moon Ranch helps improve the ability to identify and manipulate speech sounds in a quick and efficient manner (phonological fluency), the ability to remain focused on a given task while ignoring distractions and refraining from impulsive behavior (sustained attention), and the capacity for holding speech sounds in memory (phonological memory).

Hoop Nut

The object of Hoop Nut is to identify a target syllable when presented in a sequence of two syllables
Hoop Nut helps improve the ability to make correct distinctions based on individual phonemes (phonological accuracy), the ability to identify and manipulate speech sounds in a quick and efficient manner (phonological fluency), and the capacity for holding speech sounds in memory (phonological memory).

Whalien Match

Whalien Match displays a pod of shipwrecked whaliens in grids of four, eight, and sixteen. Each whalien has a syllable or word associated with it. The object of Whalien Match is to match all the syllables and words into pairs using the fewest clicks.
Whalien Match helps improve the ability to accurately identify spoken words by relying on sound cues alone, without the aid of visual or context cues (auditory word recognition). It also helps develop the capacity for holding speech sounds in memory (phonological memory), the ability to identify and manipulate speech sounds in a quick and efficient manner (phonological fluency), and the ability to make correct distinctions based on individual phonemes (phonological accuracy).

Robo-Dog

The object of Robo-Dog is to identify the picture that represents a pronounced target word.
Robo-Dog helps build knowledge of the phonological structure and meaning of words (vocabulary), and helps develop the ability to accurately identify spoken words by relying on sound cues alone, without the aid of visual or context cues (auditory word recognition).
Robo-Dog also improves the ability to make correct distinctions based on individual phonemes (phonological accuracy), and the ability to identify and manipulate speech sounds in a quick and efficient manner (phonological fluency).

Ele-Bot

The object of Ele-Bot is to identify the picture that best represents a sentence or answers a question
Ele-Bot helps improve the participant’s understanding of the relationship between words, grammar, and meaning (language structures). It also helps increase the speed at which the participant identifies and understands rapid, successive changes in sound (listening accuracy).

Space Commander
Space Commander helps improve the ability to listen to spoken directions of increasing length and complexity, comprehend them, and keep them in memory long enough to plan and carry out the required action (working memory).
Space Commander also helps improve the participant’s understanding of the relationship between words, grammar, and meaning (language structures), and helps increase the speed at which the participant identifies and understands rapid, successive changes in sound (listening accuracy).

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