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Article: Houston Public School Study Shows Fast Forword(R) Rapidly Helps Children with Language Skills Critical to Reading.
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- September 30, 1999
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Cornelius Elementary School Children Achieve Dramatic Gains in Language Skills
in Six Weeks
BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientific Learning Corporation (Nasdaq: SCIL) today announced that a study of 50 children identified as "at risk" for academic difficulties at Cornelius Elementary School in Houston, Texas showed that the Company's Fast ForWord program helped them make gains of one to two years in language skills in only six weeks of training.
"Statistically significant improvements were demonstrated for nearly 98 percent of the children who completed the training," said Ms. Rhelda Ball, Principal of Cornelius Elementary ...