• Devon Barnes is LearnFast’s Clinical Director
• Bridget Leach manages all Fast ForWord school installations
• Sharlene Townes and our team of program specialists handle home user new enquires. Sharlene is also our Facebook representative
• Heidi Middlebrook manages the Fast ForWord program support team for home users
• Peter Barnes, Program Director, helps Bridget, Sharlene & Heidi and also looks after the clinics and tuition centres who use Fast ForWord.

"If only there was some way to get into their brains...."

Devon Barnes is a speech pathologist and audiologist who has worked with children struggling with language, learning and reading difficulties for over 40 years. Many times during those decades when working with a learning disabled child she would remark to colleagues, “If only there was some way to get into their brains and reorganise them, perhaps we could fix the problems”.

In 1997 Devon read about the work of Dr Paula Tallal, a renowned neuroscientist and decided to travel to the University of York in England to hear Dr Tallal present the results of the early trials of a set of exercises which were to become the foundation for the development of Fast ForWord.

The results were so impressive, Devon realised she had found something that could potentially ‘re-wire’ the brains of learning disabled clients.

The following year Devon completed the Fast ForWord Professional Provider training in New York and commenced offering the programs at her speech pathology & learning centre in Sydney.