Lighthouse Charter School's Struggling Readers Make Headway with the Help of Patented ''Brain...

Thursday July 24, 9:00 am ET Students using reading intervention software from Oakland-based Scientific Learning Corp. make gains of half a year or more in only 12 weeks OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The students of Lighthouse Community Charter School have found a new way to harness their brainpower. In March 2008, the school started using the full suite of neuroscience-based Fast ForWord® products from ) to enhance the learning capacity of struggling readers. In just 12 weeks of using the software programs, two-thirds of the participating students have shown at least half a year’s gain in reading skills. “We think it’s really powerful and we’ve seen the proof,” said Melissa Barnes-Dholakia, Lighthouse’s director of instruction. One student success story is of a sixth grader whom Barnes-Dholakia describes as a “superstar”... [read full story]