Reading Intervention and Brain Fitness: One School's Story

Jan 7, 2010 by Denise Ruvalcaba

Penn-Trafford High School in Harrison City, PA, had a problem: some of their adolescent students were not engaging at school, and many of those students were struggling readers.  The school shifted its reading intervention efforts from building reading skills to building a reading-ready brain with Fast ForWord® software.  

ADHD & Other Attention Problems - Ensure Academic Success By Early Detection

Jan 5, 2010 by Bill Jenkins, Ph.D.

As educators, we see students come through schools every day with any number of challenges—emotional, psychiatric and physical problems of all kinds. On that continuum, attention issues—even more so than depression, anxiety or disruptive behavior—appear to be more important to later success than previously thought.

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