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Scientific Learning Corporation (NASDAQ:SCIL) has announced that a new product will join its successful Fast ForWord® reading intervention family. Fast ForWord to Literacy, slated for a late fourth-quarter release, will be the cornerstone of the Fast ForWord Secondary Education portfolio.

The product, which will replace Fast ForWord Middle & High School, was developed to help adolescents and younger adults strengthen the foundational cognitive, language, and reading skills they need to succeed in the classroom and become better readers. The Fast ForWord to Literacy product features a carefully sequenced course of activities for developing those skills through an integrated set of computer-based exercises and research-validated learning protocols. When used according to established protocols, the product can deliver a two-year reading gain in as little as eight weeks.

Fast ForWord to Literacy offers an increased emphasis on advanced grammatical structures, more advanced vocabulary, and modifications aimed at better serving special-education and English-language learner (ELL) populations when compared to earlier Fast ForWord products. Exercise introductions are now available in Spanish as well. In addition, the computer interface has been enhanced to include graphics, characters, and themes that are more appealing to adolescents, and Fast ForWord to Literacy includes 29 percent more content than its predecessor.

"We are extremely pleased to be able to bring this new product to educators, reading professionals, and struggling readers," said Robert C. Bowen, Chairman and CEO of Scientific Learning. "Fast ForWord to Literacy offers cutting-edge, neuroscience based principles as well as a multitude of additional benefits and advantages compared to Fast ForWord Middle & High School."

"The newest addition to our Fast ForWord family is an exciting tool that can help the millions of adolescents struggling with reading due to a lack of foundational cognitive skills," said Sherrelle Walker, Chief Education Officer for Scientific Learning. "There is enormous value added in Fast ForWord to Literacy that can quickly help a wide range of struggling learners. We know that the brain changes caused by Fast ForWord use endure over time and have significant impact on standardized achievement results."

The product is expected to be available for shipment in late December 2006.

About Scientific Learning Corporation

Scientific Learning produces the patented Fast ForWord® family of products, a series of computer-delivered intervention products that build learning capacity by developing the neurocognitive skills required to read and learn effectively. These foundational skills are built through a series of brain-based exercises that create fast, effective, and enduring results. Based on more than 30 years of neuroscience and cognitive research, the Fast ForWord products use patented technology and applications of validated neuroscience principles to help children, adolescents, and adults build the language and reading skills widely recognized as the keys to all learning.

The exercises align with the scientifically based reading-research guidelines and the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act. The efficacy of the products has been confirmed by more than 200 independent research studies.

For more information about Scientific Learning and its products, visit our Web sites at www.scientificlearning.com and www.brainconnection.com, or call toll-free 888-452-7323.

This press release contains projections and other forward-looking statements that are subject to the safe harbor created by the federal securities laws. Such statements include, among others, statements relating to the anticipated availability date, customer acceptance and benefits of the new product. Such statements are subject to substantial risks and uncertainties. Actual events or results may differ materially as a result of many factors, including but not limited to: unanticipated technical or engineering obstacles in product development; the extent of acceptance and purchase of the product by target customers; competition; the extent to which the Company's marketing, sales and implementation strategies are successful; the Company's ability to continue to demonstrate the efficacy of its products, which depends on how the programs are administered, the demography of participants and other factors; and other risks detailed in the Company's SEC reports, including but not limited to the 2005 Report on Form 10-K (Part 1. Item 1A, Risk Factors) filed March 14, 2006 and the Report on Form 10Q for the second quarter of 2006 (Part II, Item 1A, Risk Factors), filed August 14, 2006.