Waterford Institute's Rusty and Rosy Reading Program Wins Gold in Mom's Choice Awards

SALT LAKE CITY, May 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Rusty and Rosy Reading, the in-home, interactive reading program created by Waterford Institute, has been selected as a Gold award recipient in the 2012 Mom's Choice Awards.

The Mom's Choice Awards® is an international awards program that recognizes authors, inventors, companies, parents, and others for their efforts in creating quality, family-friendly media, products, and services. The Gold award is the highest level of acknowledgment from Mom's Choice Awards, which recognizes Rusty and Rosy Reading™ as being among the best educational products available on the market today.

Rusty and Rosy Reading is an adaptive, research-based curriculum produced by Waterford Institute™, a non-profit educational software company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, and creator of the Waterford Early Learning™ program used in classrooms across the country.

Featuring over 4,000 activities, 240 digital books, and 185 songs and music videos, Rusty and Rosy Reading provides a fun and engaging educational curriculum for children. However, unlike other software programs that are simply collections of games and activities, Rusty and Rosy Reading adapts to the learning style of each individual child, assessing each child's skill level and starting them on a personalized learning path that meets their needs.

Regular instruction with Rusty and Rosy Reading allows children to build a strong foundation in the five key areas of literacy: phonological awareness, phonics, comprehension and vocabulary, language concepts, and fluency.

With its personalized curriculum, Rusty and Rosy Reading helps children begin reading in as little as 10 weeks when used 15 minutes a day, five days a week. Typical usage data for the product, however, is often much higher.

"We are honored to receive the Mom's Choice Gold Award," said Lane Hancock, Director of Consumer Marketing at Waterford Institute. "We created Rusty and Rosy Reading to provide the best educational experience possible, and receiving this award is one more validation that we are on the right path to providing a quality education for children everywhere."

For more information on Mom's Choice Awards, visit http://www.momschoiceawards.com/.

To learn more about Rusty and Rosy Reading, visit www.rustyandrosy.com.

About Rusty and Rosy Reading

Rusty and Rosy Reading™ is an award-winning, research-based curriculum created by Waterford Institute™, Inc. that brings educational excellence to the home for children ages four to eight. Children delight in the fun activities, memorable music, engaging graphics and video, as well as the diverse characters that teach them fundamental reading skills from ABCs to vocabulary to reading comprehension and more. In as little as 15 minutes a day, children can build a solid reading foundation that will motivate and empower them to reach their fullest learning potential. And the more children use Rusty and Rosy Reading program, the more they learn.

Rusty and Rosy Reading is a product of Waterford Institute, Inc. (www.waterford.org), headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

SOURCE Waterford Institute