Language and reading, are universal skills required by everyone across the world. And with English being such a dominant language across the globe, there's an increasing number of people looking for ways to improve their English literacy (especially for children), either because they have specific special needs, or because they need to improve their English for business reasons, or because for whatever reason there is an imperative to learn English.

Peter Carabi, vice president of Global Business Development for Scientific Learning is in the privileged position of being able to witness the effects of the Fast ForWord products as they help people with their language skills and provide them with new opportunities, often completely changing the trajectory of young peoples' lives. The program is based on neuroscience, and the concept that the brain is not fixed, but plastic, and has the capability to change itself. Peter describes it as one of the things that can give us all hope.

I caught up with Peter at the biannual LearnFast summit in January 2016, on a sunny day in Manly on Sydney Harbour.

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