Fast ForWord has come to Central Florida Speech and Hearing Center

Fast ForWord is a program designed to aid children diagnosed with APD(Auditory Processing Disorder) or language disorders.

Fast ForWord benefits children who are experiencing:

• Difficulty with reading or spelling
• Have problems understanding and using language
• Have difficulty remembering or following oral instructions
• Appear to daydream in class
• Have unexplained behavior problems
• Ages ranging from 5 – 14

What is Fast ForWord?

Fast ForWord is a method for rapidly building language skills necessary for learning to read or becoming a better reader. The program combines acoustically modified sound and integrative skills training with research-based optimal learning conditions. On average, students with language and reading problems make 1 to 2 year gains in their reading and/or language skills after only 4 to 8 weeks of Fast ForWord training.

Fast ForWord improves language skills by combining patented CD-ROM and Internet technology with breakthroughs in neuroscience.

The scientifically validated training is an advanced approach that moves well beyond addressing the symptoms of language problems, and directly attacks a root cause: the inability to perceive the quickly changing sound elements of oral language.

How Does Fast ForWord teach phonological awareness?

Phonological awareness begins with the general ability to attend to the sounds of language and to recognize and use all sizes of sound units such as words, syllables and phonemes. Fast ForWord exercises train phonological skills by requiring active listening on the part of the child, as well as decision making about the sounds that are heard.

Using optimal learning techniques (intensity, frequency, adaptivity and motivation) and acoustically modified sound, the exercises simultaneously “cross-train” many phonological skills at one time for rapid, secure learning.