Computer Program Helps Students Overcome Difficulty Reading

Canada's Vancouver Sun (9/21, Steffenhagen) reported, "A computer program designed for children who struggle with language and literacy has had such a profound effect in Surrey [British Columbia] schools that the people involved say they've been moved to tears." According to the Sun, the Fast ForWord program "is not strictly about reading, even though literacy is the goal. Rather, it is designed to change the way students process the smallest units of sound, which are so tiny that they occur within milliseconds and can't be reproduced by the human voice."