LIFESKILLS ACADEMY OF ORLANDO SELECTS FAST FORWORD SOFTWARE FROM SCIENTIFIC LEARNING TO HELP STUDENTS ACCELERATE LEARNING

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Wendy Cox Blair

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LifeSkills Academy of Orlando

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LIFESKILLS ACADEMY OF ORLANDO SELECTS FAST FORWORD SOFTWARE FROM SCIENTIFIC LEARNING TO HELP STUDENTS ACCELERATE LEARNING

Winter Springs, Fla. — Jan. 12, 2012 — This month, students at LifeSkills Academy of Orlando, a non-profit private K-8 school in Winter Springs, Fla., will experience first-hand how cutting-edge technology and neuroscience are transforming education — and helping students become successful lifelong learners. Taking an innovative approach to classroom instruction, LifeSkills Academy will implement an educational software program called Fast ForWord® to help students exercise their brains, build brain fitness, and increase their capacity to learn.

Developed by Scientific Learning Corp. (NASDAQ:SCIL), the Fast ForWord family of educational software products accelerates learning for students across a wide spectrum of ages and abilities by applying proven research on how the brain learns. It helps students rapidly improve reading and learning ability by strengthening memory, attention, processing rate, and sequencing skills. By building brain fitness in these areas, learners can realize achievement gains of up to two years in as little as three months and maintain an accelerated rate of learning even after the programs end.

LifeSkills Academy purchased the Fast ForWord software earlier this month and plans to roll it out to students the week of January 17^th. LifeSkills Academy is a sensory-based school that uses occupational therapy and speech/language therapy to support the academic and social needs of students with sensory integration, auditory processing, and communicative disorders.

“LifeSkills Academy is centered on an individualized curriculum that focuses on academic excellence, sensory integration and language development. Because we’re a sensory-based school, we firmly believe in the plasticity of the brain — the brain’s ability to change itself in response to new experiences,” said Wendy Blair, director of LifeSkills Academy. “Scientific Learning has scientifically-based research that shows how the Fast ForWord program works to change the brain. Our goal with the Fast ForWord program is to help students improve their language and reading ability to help them reach their full potential. We’re very excited to begin using the program.”

About LifeSkills Academy of Orlando

LifeSkills Academy of Orlando is a 501(c)(3) non-profit private school for children in kindergarten through eighth grade. Students who attend the school have diagnoses such as Sensory Processing Disorder, High Functioning Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, Persuasive Developmental Delay, and other learning disabilities. The school’s mission is to offer first-rate academics in a unique and flexible environment, which also includes onsite and individualized occupational and speech therapy. For more information, please contact Wendy Blair, director, at 407-388-1808.

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