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Title:  Fast ForWordŽ
Description: Fast ForWordŽ is a family of computer-based products. According to the developer's website, the programs help students develop and strengthen the cognitive skills necessary for successful reading and learning. Participants spend 30 to 100 minutes a day, five days a week, for four to 16 weeks with these adaptive exercises. Fast ForWordŽ Language builds fundamental cognitive skills of memory, attention, processing, and sequencing in the context of key language and reading skills, including listening accuracy, phonological awareness, and language structures. Programs in the Fast ForWordŽ to Reading series provide the next sequence of cognitive skills designed to help students acquire reading skills.
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Cover Date: July 2007
Web Release: July 9, 2007
Publication #: WWC IRBRFFW07
Center/Program: WWC
Type of Product: Intervention Report
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