Scientific Learning Corp. announced that the Fast ForWord® online reading intervention will now include Reading Assistant™ patented speech recognition technology, plus hundreds of reading selections and new teacher-directed lessons. Fast ForWord was developed by neuroscientists to intensively target working memory, attention and processing speed in the context of language and reading exercises. Reading Assistant uses advanced speech recognition to rapidly build reading fluency and comprehension by “listening” to students as they read aloud, correcting and guiding them just like a reading tutor. By combining the two solutions into one for K-12 customers, Fast ForWord is now the only online reading intervention that supports one-on-one guided oral reading, the single best practice for improving reading fluency as a bridge to comprehension. In addition to the Reading Assistant technology, over 300 hundred reading selections across multiple genres and 200 lessons have been added to the new Fast ForWord, allowing it to address a wide range of language and literacy standards and all five of the National Reading Panel’s components of reading.