THE INTERFACE OF SELECTED VERBAL AND NONVERBAL BEHAVIORS IN MOTHER-CHILD DYADIC INTERACTIONS WITH NORMAL AND LANGUAGE DISORDERED CHILDREN.

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Looking Ahead: An introduction to Five Exploratory Studies of Fast ForWord.

In this paper, we provide an introductory overview of a novel approach to language intervention called Fast ForWord (FFW), developed by the Scientific Learning Corporation. More than 20,000 children have received FFW intervention, and many researchers, clinicians, educators, and parents are asking questions about the effectiveness of FFW. To date, there are few evaluations of the treatment other than those that have been published by the developers of the FFW program. This introductory paper will discuss the underlying hypotheses associated with FFW, the components of FFW, and the few studies that have been published regarding the efficacy of FFW. A clinical outcome model based on the work of R. R. Robey and M. C. Schultz (1998) is proposed as a way of understanding the contributions and limitations of previous intervention studies on FFW and as well as those presented in this issue. We end with a look at the questions that need to be asked by researchers and clinicians who are interested in FFW

Looking Back: A Summary of Five Exploratory Studies of Fast ForWord.

This article summarizes the papers in this issue of AJSLP that report the results of Phase I and Phase II clinical trials of Fast ForWord (FFW). Our primary purpose is to integrate the findings of these studies as they relate to the implications for future Phase III clinical trial studies. We discuss the replication of earlier findings by independent researchers, the uniqueness of FFW, new findings from FFW with respect to literacy and intervention settings, and finally, the underlying theoretical framework of FFW