Scientific Learning Corp.

Scientific Learning Corporation develops and distributes the Fast ForWord family of software products in the United States and internationally. It offers Fast ForWord family of products as language series, literacy series, and reading series. The company provides language series for elementary learners and literacy series for adolescent learners to build foundational reading and language skills to help districts move below grade level learners to be successful learners in the general classroom, as well as reading series of products to build learning capacity through developing cognitive skills using exercises focused on critical reading abilities, such as phonemic awareness, phonics and decoding, spelling, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. It also offers Progress Tracker, an Internet-based data analysis and reporting tool, which analyzes students learning results to provide diagnostic and prescriptive intervention information, and allows educators to track and report their students learning progress. In addition, it offers various onsite and remote professional and technical services, as well as phone, email, and Web-based support services. It offers its products to educational institutions, speech and language clinics, and learning and tutorial centers through direct sales force, direct marketing, and a network of independent value-added representatives. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Oakland, California.