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Lexia Cross-Trainer(TM): Logical Reasoning Helps Students Master
Thinking Skills Necessary to Excel in Math, Science and Social
Sciences

As part of its ground-breaking initiative to improve children's
cognitive learning skills, Lexia Learning Systems, Inc." For more information,
call 1-800-435-3942 or visit the Web site at www. For eligible businesses that have at least eight
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Research for the Lexia Cross-Trainer suite of products was
funded by a three-year, $2 million grant from the Advanced Technology
Program of the Federal Department of Commerce. MPAAT serves Minnesota
through its grant-making program, QUITPLAN(SM) stop-smoking services and
statewide outreach activities.

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Lexia Strengthens Logical Reasoning Skills with Release of New Cognitive Development Software

For other learners, it sharpens scientific thinking, helps
them organize ideas for written and oral presentations , and can help
them sort out the complexities of social relationships. The Association of Educational
Publishers, Ed Press, "Distinguished Achievement Award" and the
National Parenting Publications "Gold Award.

"Reducing tobacco use is crucial for improving the health of all
Minnesotans , given that each year in Minnesota tobacco use causes more than
5,600 deaths and is estimated to cost $2 billion in health care costs," said
Willoughby.

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Availability and Versions

Lexia Cross-Trainer: Logical Reasoning is currently available
through Lexia representatives nationwide and directly to consumers at
www. If a
caller has health insurance and coverage for quitting assistance, the
QUITPLAN Helpline can connect them directly to their health plan's
services.

-- QUITPLAN Centers.

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From this logical organization of information, we are able to
draw inferences, make conclusions and generate new ideas.

-- quitplan.

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Logical Reasoning helps
students, ages seven to adult, strengthen their logical thinking,
organization and problem -solving abilities, which can improve academic
performance across subjects as varied as reading, math , science and
social studies.mpaat.int .

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"The release of the Logical Reasoning program marks another
milestone in Lexia's mission to provide teachers and families with
sophisticated intervention programs that develop fundamental skills
for school success," explains Jon Bower, CEO of Lexia Learning
Systems. Versions are available for both school and
family use, for use on both Windows(R) and Macintosh(R) computers. Lexia reading software has won
numerous awards, including the District Administration "District
Choice Award" in 1994, 1998 and 2003."
MPAAT currently offers four QUITPLAN services for people who want to quit
smoking at no cost:

-- QUITPLAN Helpline.

Literacy and literacy training and issues, for (1) citizens who are not literate in any language and (2) new citizens or immigrants who wish or need to learn the dominant 'tongue' as a second language.

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Effective QUITPLAN (SM) Stop-Smoking Services Available to All Minnesotans

MINNEAPOLIS, On Tuesday, May 31, the World Health
Organization will sponsor its 17th annual World No Tobacco Day (WNTD), a
global event established to call attention to the negative health consequences
of smoking and to encourage people to quit. This year, the focus of WNTD is
on the role of health care professionals in reducing the harm of tobacco.

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Annual World No Tobacco Day Offers Opportunity for Smokers to Quit

More than 35,000 people have called the Helpline in the past four
years . More than 30,000 Minnesotans have visited quitplan."
MPAAT is an independent, non-profit organization that improves the health
of Minnesotans by reducing the harm caused by tobacco.

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Visual Spatial is now used in hundreds of schools across the country,
and Cross-Trainer modules for Auditory Processing and for
Communication are scheduled to follow Logical Reasoning in 2005 and
2006. They are a convenient and effective way to
improve the chances of success for smokers who are ready to stop . "Getting in touch with QUITPLAN services can make the difference
for smokers who want to join the worldwide movement to improve their health
with a smoke-free lifestyle.

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today released
Lexia Cross -Trainer: Logical Reasoning, the second module in its
Cross-Trainer suite of educational software .com.
"Many smokers want to quit, but overcoming their nicotine addiction by
themselves is very difficult," explained David Willoughby, MPAAT Chief
Executive Officer. "QUITPLAN services provide smokers with the tools that
they need to be successful. By calling 1-888-354-PLAN (7526), smokers have
access to professional counselors who provide them with a personalized
plan to quit, and if appropriate, nicotine patches, gum or lozenges.

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Lexia Cross-Trainer: Logical Reasoning targets logic skills that
are particularly important for individuals who have difficulty
following instructions, organizing tasks or understanding written
material. Lexia believes
that logic is not something that is optimally learned from a workbook
or lecture, but is developed by exercising inferential and deductive
reasoning skills. It is funded with three percent of the state's
1998 tobacco settlement.

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The Cross-Trainer programs provide the opportunity
to develop these skills and support overall learning goals in ways
that previously have not been widely available . Callers are up to seven times more likely to quit smoking with
Helpline assistance compared to trying to quit on their own.
For more information on World No Tobacco Day, visit http://www .

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"Logical abilities are what allow us to see
relationships among facts and ideas and organize them in meaningful
ways.com

MPAAT sponsors this program through Park Nicollet HealthSource
(952-993-3926).

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Face-to-face counseling and stop-smoking tools are
provided at nine different centers throughout Minnesota in the Duluth,
Thief River Falls , and Willmar areas.

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The first module in the Cross-Trainer suite, Lexia
Cross-Trainer(TM): Visual Spatial, was released last year and helps
students develop or improve 22 visual-spatial skills.

About Lexia

Lexia Learning Systems, headquartered in Lincoln, Mass.com.

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"Lexia Cross Trainer provides special education and mainstream
students with the building blocks for learning," said David Stevens,
founder of Stevens + Associates - Center for Learning, Development and
Cognition and director of the Lexia Cross-Trainer project at Lexia
Learning Systems.

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As with all Lexia software
programs, the technology automatically adjusts the difficulty to match
each student's ability level.

-- QUITPLAN at Work.mpaat.
For more information on QUITPLAN services, call 1-952-767-1400 or visit
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Here at home, the Minnesota Partnership for Action Against Tobacco (MPAAT)
offers its QUITPLAN services to help smokers succeed in achieving their goal
of quitting.com
in the past two years.

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"We know that many children in school struggle because they
have yet to develop the comprehension and organizational skills
necessary to excel. Winner of the
2004 Cahners ComputerPlace "Top Choice" seal at the Boston Museum of
Science as well as an iParenting Media Award in the "Best Software"
category, Lexia Cross-Trainer: Visual-Spatial cognitive development
software was one of the most innovative software programs of 2004. Today, Lexia's programs are used in
over 10,000 schools, adult education centers, tutoring centers and
correctional facilities, and in homes.

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Lexia Cross Trainer: Logical Reasoning offers students a set of
five activities, each with 25 levels of difficulty, that prompt
students to find complex patterns and relationships by manipulating
simple shapes, colors and 3D designs., is a
developer of professional development courses, curriculum materials
and software to support basic skills development in people of all ages
- from pre-schoolers to adults.

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For smokers who may not want to use face-to-face or
telephone counseling, this website offers free assistance to help
smokers quit.org .who.