Case studies of children using Fast ForWord

We report five case studies in which the children were enrolled in Fast For Word (FFW). The purpose of the case studies was twofold: (a) to obtain inde pendent objective data with the commercially available computer-based langu age intervention program, FFW; and (b) to identify patterns of performance with FFW related to the children's pre-intervention language profiles. Five children (3 boys, 2 girls) between the ages of 5; 10 and 9;2 (years; month s) enrolled in a private school for children with language-learning difficu lties participated. Outcome measures included both standard scores from gen eral tests of language and measures taken from language-sample analyses. Th ere were modest changes in standardized measures of language after experien ce with FFW for 3 of the 5 children using the criterion of 95% confidence i nterval. There were no clinically significant changes in language sample me asures. Several interesting patterns of response to FFW intervention are di scussed.