Learning Charms is a certified provider of the Scientific Learning Reading products, Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant. These are off site implementation programs, meaning you can do these where ever you have Internet.
These programs are offered by various companies and at various pricing. My prices are deeply discounted and are just for those students that are independent enough to complete the computer activities alone, or with the help of their parent. If your child has multiple disabilities or significant attentional issues then you may be best served by a provider that provides clinic based implementation.
We are pleased to offer Fast ForWord (Scientific Learning) Programs to students wanting to improve in reading, phonemic awareness, auditory processing, listening comprehension, and working memory.
Years ago, this was only offered in a clinical setting, but now this technology can be completed in anywhere you have a computer and internet connection. Because of this, parents find that this program is very easy to implement into their child's day. Please visit our Fast ForWord page for more information.
The Reading Assistant program is designed to be used by beginning readers, English language learners, and struggling readers who have attained basic word recognition and decoding skills and are now building their vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. This includes students as young as first grade, all the way up to adults. Reading Assistant has solutions designed to implement with Response to Intervention programs for all student tiers. Reading Assistant is the only reading program that “listens” to students as they read out loud, intervenes when students falter, and automatically scores students’ oral reading. No other program or e-book provides comparable real-time guidance and feedback.
Fast ForWord is distributed only through certified providers and is sold per license. Each license is good for one year. Students may utilize training/tutoring via Fast ForWord every day up to 90 minutes per day.
If student is having difficulty mastering a concept the area the student is struggling with is indicated on the weekly progress email. Parent may help student with the concept or may make appointment to work with a local tutor or speech therapist (depending on area of need) of family's choice.
If parent wishes Learning Charms to monitor student' progress on line after the initial 3 months, the charge is $40.00 per month. This monitoring includes reviewing weekly data and sending emails to parents regarding progress or need for intervention.
For Fast ForWord, If you break down $1200 over the course of a year, its like paying $100 a month or $25 a week for reading and literacy tutoring. If your child uses the program 5 days a week for 45 minutes that's $5.00 a session. Wow. If you've chosen the the $900 plan, that's $75 per month or less than $20 a week.
Use the contact form or fill out the agreement and email to us.
Learning Charms' owner, Stephanie, tries out all technology before utilizing it with her clients. Some things are keepers, and some things are not. Fast ForWord is a keeper. She uses Fast ForWord with her 3rd grade son who has auditory processing and attentional challenges. These challenges have continually caused him to have difficulties at school and at home when it comes to reading and listening comprehension. Stephanie stated, "I realized that he could really benefit from daily tutoring just to keep up with literacy at school. With my work schedule, this simply wasn't possible. Fast ForWord is his personal daily tutor. He enjoys it and I can see that he is learning, understanding, growing and increasing in his confidence. And, wow, I love how intense it is for the auditory processing component. He still gets stumped from time to time on difficult concepts and thats when we utilize a 1:1 tutor to further teach the concept. Once that has happened, he continues with Fast ForWord. It has been a great experience for us! I look forward to watching his continued progress".