Transform Your Child’s Reading with Fast ForWord.

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Get a helping hand from Fast ForWord, the neuroscience program for reading, learning, and auditory processing.

Offered by Kennedy Reading Therapy, now accepting four private students (on-line).

What happens when you build a Reading-Ready Brain?

Above: Stanford University fMRI images of brain engagement in twenty children before and after Fast ForWord training. (Images slightly compressed for phone view.) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0030098100

Here’s what happens:

Monte, 17, Dyslexia
Reading gain in six months:
7.6 years

(I have changed student names and images for privacy. Data are accurate.)

Ricky, 11, Dyslexia
Reading Gain in four months:
25 percentile points

Ricky played the Fast ForWord brain games five days a week for four months to raise his processing speed for auditory perception. Even though his work was sometimes interrupted by family changes, he persisted with a cheerful heart. (The games infuse fun into the challenge.) Time between school-administered MAP tests was four months. He had no other reading program during the time. (My personal student.)

Is your child starting to hate school, like Ricky was? I’d be honored to talk with you about your child’s situation.

David, 15, dyslexia.
Reading gain in five months:
4.4 years.

David played the Fast ForWord brain games four days a week for four months to raise his processing speed for auditory perception. Since he had entered my English class in September, he had avoided eye contact with me, staring at his hands, praying that I would not call on him to read. He soon failed the first round of Alaska’s exit exam for graduation and was assigned to my FF reading lab. In March, on his first day back from the lab, David raised his hand to read aloud. He read flawlessly. Tears in my eyes. Time between the school-administered Nelson-Denny reading tests was five months. During that time, David had no other reading program beyond regular school assignments, just Fast ForWord.

Is your child chewing his fingernails in anxiety, like David had been? For a personal consultation, please text me at 520-465-8163, or email me at karen@kennedyreadingtherapy.com.

Jaden, 13, Auditory Processing Disorder.
Reading gain in eight months:
6.2 years.

Jaden played the Fast ForWord brain games for five days a week for eight months to raise his processing speed for auditory perception. He worked for 20 minutes before school every day, then 30 minutes after school. School STAR testing showed a reading gain of 6.2 years. Summer retesting for APD showed that he had moved into the low-normal range for overall auditory processing — he no longer had APD! (His mother has given me permission to provide the audiologist’s report to those who request it.)

Jaden had originally started on another auditory processing program but found it too difficult. His mother, a biologist, then turned to Fast ForWord to engage his brain at a deeper and more foundational processing level. After Jaden had mastered the FF “basic training” work, he was able to use the other program with success. During the last two months of his FF work, he worked on both programs each week.

In the Fast ForWord matching game below, Kenny, age 15, is repeating recorded C-V syllables as he hears them. The syllables (not in order) are ta, fa, sa, ba, da, ga and so on. His misperceptions reveal severe auditory processing problems. He just doesn’t perceive speech sounds as others do, making “sounding out” words –a first grade skill–far beyond his reach. (Oxygen deprivation –‘hypoxia”– during his birth may have damaged his auditory system.) I offer this solely as an insight into what many kiddos and adults are dealing with to some extent.

After almost three months on the exercises, Kenny’s mom phoned his special ed teacher: “Kenny’s correcting himself! He can tell when he’s saying thing wrong!” She was thrilled. His phonemic awareness was sufficiently in place for him to take the next step–actual reading. (I said “so long” and turned him over to his school at that point.)

Annie, 9, Weak Phonemic Awareness
Reading Gain in one year:
15 percentile points.

Annie played the Fast ForWord brain games four days a week for six months to raise her auditory processing speed and perception. Poor phonemic awareness in K-2 strongly indicates that dyslexia will be diagnosed in Grade 3, but one year later Annie was no longer headed for special ed. She accelerated her growth and caught up with other children in reading. She had no other reading program during this time. (My personal student.)

Does your child have difficulty with phonemic awareness, often asking “Huh?” in spite of normal hearing? Please text or mail me to arrange a free consultation.

Jade, 16, near-dyslexic.
Reading Gain in six months:
6.8 years.

Jade played the Fast ForWord brain games four days a week for six months to raise her auditory processing speed and perception. She began to take an interest in subjects she had not cared about before and was curious about new books. Time between school-administered tests was six months. She had no other reading help during this time. (My personal student.)

Is your child hopeless or ready to give up? Let’s talk.
We can fix this.

I’m still offering that Free Assessment!
Just text me at 520-465-8163
or email Karen@kennedyreadingtherapy.com

Shiloh, 12, pandemic learning delay, just needed a tune-up.
Reading Gain in two months:
2.8 years.

It didn’t take long for Shiloh to fall behind when she was out of school for a year and then in remote-learning classes, so her mom jumped at the chance to enroll her in my FF group when it was offered. Shiloh played the Fast ForWord brain games five days a week for two months to accelerate her learning and raise her reading level. She had no other reading program during this time.

Andy, 8, autism with language delay.
From single words to full sentences in one year.

How about schools? Can schools help kids have reading-ready brains? Sure! Talk to your child’s teachers about using Fast ForWord. (Not all kids need one-on-one attention with a therapist.)

Are you ready to help your child build a reading-ready brain?

Just text 520-465-8163,
or email me karen@kennedyreadingtherapy.com.