"Language Wise is a program that addresses the issues..."

According to studies like Report Card on the Nation and States, the 1995 STATS Canada study and The National Adult Literacy Survey, none of the above is working. The first study revealed that an astronomical 43% of the nation’s children are below basic competency in reading, while the 1995 STATS Canada study and The Adult Literacy Survey reveal that Americans rank second from the bottom among twelve countries in prose and document literacy. In each age group studied, Americans ranked the lowest among all nations at the skills of understanding and using information in text. When looked at across age groups, each of the other countries shows improvement from the oldest to the youngest group, showing that these countries have become more literate over the years, while Americans have gotten less literate over the years. Language Wise is a program that addresses the issues. It directly trains the variables of verbal intelligence that have been shown to correlate to oral and reading comprehension, as well as exposition. With average reading comprehension gains of four years, two months on the Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT-r) reading comprehension sub-test, Language Wise offers a new paradigm. It offers the notion that to make children understand better, you must make them smarter—more language wise. Are parents and teachers ready for such a paradigm?

We know from copious research that we can affect intelligence scores by as much as fifty points from age six to eighteen. And we know that fifty percent of intelligence is language related. So we know we can make our children more language wise. The next question is how. Language Wise is designed to improve the vocabulary, comprehension, logical reasoning, creativity, composition, and exposition of children age sixish to twenty. The theoretical basis should be applied by the time the child is fourish, and ideally from birth. This program was developed at Read America, the developers of the internationally recognized reading method Phono-Graphix. Language Wise has been field tested by 237 parents, teachers and clinicians who’ve reported gains in vocabulary, reasoning, writing, grammar, creativity, comprehension, ability to work independently, and attitude toward language related activities.