Fast ForWord Literacy Advanced

Fast ForWord Literacy Advanced provides the critical link needed to improve overall literacy in adults who are struggling to read and learn. It strengthens processing efficiency in order to establish a foundation for learning. The exercises feature:

• Practice with phonemic awareness, decoding, and word recognition
• Advanced practice in decoding
• Sequential and inferential comprehension questions
• Advanced grammatical structures
• Highly demanding sustained attention tasks
• Ability to sequence multi-step instructions

Fast ForWord Literacy Advanced consists of five exercises:

 

Sky Rider Participants get the cool Sky Rider to surf her space-board by identifying, remembering, and repeating the number and order of a series of modulated frequency sound sweeps. The frequencies have a direct connection to the frequencies of letter sounds and speech sounds. This exercise improves organisation, focus, and working memory.
Meteor Ball  While helping the ball-player strike the correct words, the participant identifies and discriminates a target word from a series of phonologically similar words. This exercise improves organisation and focus skills, word analysis, phonological awareness, and working memory, as well as visual tracking to reinforce left-to-right reading patterns.
Lunar Leap Participants power up the space-bungy by using auditory and visual cues to match spoken words with written and spoken words, and discriminate between phonologically similar words. By using this exercise the participants improve organisation and focus skills, word analysis, phonological awareness, and working memory.
Laser Match The laser recorder displays the student's scores when pairs of written and spoken words in a grid of monitor screens are correctly matched. This exercise improves organisation and focus skills, word analysis, phonological awareness, and working memory by using auditory and visual cues to prompt the student to make the matches.
Galaxy Theater  Participants listen to the directions and manipulate items on a checkerboard, They also attempt to choose the correct picture from a selection of four, after listening to a description of the picture. This improves skills in listening comprehension, organisation, focus, and English language conventions. Increasingly difficult grammar and syntax exercises occur as students progress.

Language and Reading Skills Developed by Fast ForWord Literacy Advanced 

• Advanced listening skills (accuracy, comprehension)
• Auditory sequencing
• Phonemic awareness
• Language skills
• Word analysis
• Association between sounds and spelling patterns
• Decoding and memory skills
• Phonemic awareness
• Reinforcing learned content
• Word to print mapping skills
• Reinforce left-to-right visual scanning patterns for reading
• Following complex directions
• English language conventions including vocabulary

Cognitive Skills Developed by Fast ForWord Literacy Advanced

• Working memory and retrieval from long term memory
• Sustained and focused attention
• Auditory processing of tonal sweeps
• Sequencing ability
• Phonological memory
• Auditory & linguistic processing
• Auditory processing of phonemes for identification and recognition
• Visual processing of letters and words
• Cross–modal processing of phoneme associations
• Monitoring words by utilising sustained and focused attention
• Processing skills – auditory, visual and cross – modal