 The cost to parents whose children had been selected for the pilot study would be A$8000 for two years, over and above the normal school fees.Several Australian academics were critical of the move.Dr Emma Burrows, a neuroscientist at the Florey Institute in Melbourne, and cognitive scientists Anne Castles and Max Coltheart at Macquarie University pointed out that the "evidence" supporting the program's claims of success was anecdotal rather than based on studies using randomized control trials and published in peer-reviewed academic journals.