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CAMP MOM (5) (Wrightwood, Calif...
...behind her peers in speaking and reading and had a hard time making friends. Two years of private speech therapy had failed to bring her up to speed. So her mother Donna enrolled her in "Fast ForWord," a powerful video-game program developed by Scientific Learning Corp. of Berkeley, Calif., to aid children like her who cannot process the sounds of language fast enough to comprehend normal speech. Nicole spent six weeks of intense game playing at a speech clinic in New Jersey, emerging "like a different child," Donna Davis says. Today the ebullient second-grader chatters away with classmates...
...estimated 16 million U.S. youngsters between the ages of four and 13 have reading problems. The vast but fragmented market for reading improvement already encompasses clinics, homes and schools. Leading companies range from niche players like Lindamood Bell Learning Processes (1998 revenues: $11 million) of San Luis Obispo, Calif., which operates centers for children with learning disabilities, to the Learning Company (1998 revenues: $839.3 million), the producer of Reader Rabbit and other educational software that Mattel acquired in a $3.5 billion stock swap last spring...
Comic relief seems to be the last thing on the mind of teens like Michael Teng, who just graduated from high school in Palo Alto, Calif., and worked 40 hours a week last summer as a computer programmer. "If you are a student who is anticipating applying to selective colleges," he says, "it really isn't acceptable to do nothing." Tony Bialorucki, 18, of Toledo, Ohio, was a caddy before trading in his golf clubs for a toolbox last summer to help build an orphanage in Guatemala. "I didn't want to work in a mall or a restaurant...
Thank you for this memoir of the 20th century. As I approach my seventh decade, I can recollect much of it, but I needed your review of influential people to refresh my memories. I shall keep this copy for my grandchildren. JUDY EISENMAN Quincy, Calif...