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Speech and Language

Teach Me Nouns by: SoftTouch. Appropriate for students with articulation, sound production and speech production goals. The series has over 700 vocabulary words organized by target sound. Music, movement, morphing and narration motivate students.

Test Me, Score Me Module for Teach Me Nouns by: SoftTouch. Ready-to-use assessment modules for each of the Teach Me Nouns programs.

TalkTime with Tucker by: Laureate Learning Systems. Voice-activated animation routines. Accepts a broad range of verbal input. Five activities encourage verbalization and reinforce talking. On Stage, On the Farm, A Walk in the Woods, Fantasyland, Let's Talk with Casey the Chameleon. Does not include microphone.

Tiger's Tale by: Laureate Learning Systems. This program stimulates language production by encouraging students to "talk" for a tiger who has lost his voice. Preschool and elementary students alike will delight in recording their voices to create their very own movies. Does not include microphone.l

TalkTime & Tiger's Tale Bundle

Early Vocabulary Development Series: Sterling Editions by: Laureate Learning Systems. Three programs to help children master essential vocabulary. Based on recent linguistic theory and research. New Sterling Editions ease management of student information, settings and data; simplify data analysis, and improve accountability with new report-writing options. Mac/Win CD.

First Words I: Teaches 50 earliest nouns in 10 categories.

First Words II: Teaches an additional 50 basic nouns.

First Verbs: Teaches 40 verbs. Verb action is animated.

Exploring Vocabulary Series by: Laureate Learning Systems. Sterling Edition. Now includes the powerful tools, Optimized intervention and the Sterling Administration System. Mac/Win CD.

Words & Concepts by: Laureate Learning Systems. Offers 6 language activities: Vocabulary, Categorization, Word Assocation, Word Identification by Function, Concept-Same/Alike and Concept-Different. Same core vocabulary of 40 nouns is used in each of the 6 language units. Most activities have 3 levels of difficulty.

Words & Concepts I, II and III

Concentrate on Words & Concepts by: Laureate Learning Systems. Based on the classic card game, this series reinforces the language concepts trained in the Words & Concepts Series. Perfect for cooperative play between individuals with disabilities and their peers.

Concentrate I, II and III

Bundle: Words & Concepts I, II, III and Concentrate I, II, III

Language Activities of Daily Living: My
House, My Town, My School by Laureate.
New Sterling Editions! These 3 programs
offer exploratory environments in which
students can learn about the objects and
activities they encounter in their daily routines. Six scenes train over 100 functional vocabulary items in each program. Includes Discover and Identify Modes.

Teach Me to Talk by: SoftTouch. 100 nouns using real pictures. Turn on or off features: English or Spanish spoken word, movement with or without music before word is spoken, morphing to the Mayer-Johnson symbol, text of word, distinctive voice or excited voice. 100 on-screen puzzles: 2 - 16 pieces. Rhyming books. On-line teaching strategies included.

Autism/PDD Package Level 124 Autism/PDD Package - Level 1: Emerging Vocabulary to Two Word Combinations Laureate Learning Systems. Laureate's software
programs are known for their proven success with students who have been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders. This package contains software for cause and effect training, early vocabulary development, emerging syntax, category concepts and expressive language.

Programs included:

• Creature Chorus
• First Words I, II, First Verbs
• Exploring Nouns, Exploring Verbs
• Talking Nouns I, II, Talking Verbs
• First Categories
• Simple Sentence Structure
• TalkTime with Tucker

Autism/PDD Package Level 2 Autism/PDD Package - Level 2: Early Syntax to Basic Language Mastery by: Laureate Learning Systems. Laureate's software programs are known for their proven success with students who have been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders. This package includes programs for syntax mastery, auditory awareness, discrimination and processing, following directions, vocabulary and concept development, irregular verb use and narrative development.

Programs included:

• Language Links
• Prepositions!
• Pronoun Perspective
• Nouns & Sounds
• Following Directions: Left and Right
& One and Two Level Commands
• My House, My Town, My School
• Tiger’s Tale
• Words & Concepts I, II and III
• CONCENTRATE I, II, and III
• Swim, Swam, Swum

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Language Links by: Laureate Learning Systems. All-new, comprehensive, evidence-based approach to syntax assessment and interevention. Language Links takes children from the early two-word development stage through the mastery of a broad range of syntactic forms. Six levels train over 75 essential grammatical forms in development to order. Language Links features Optimized Intervention, a powerful innovative system that tailors intructional delivery to each students unique needs. The software begins with an assessment to determine where to start training. Then the program checks detailed information about a student's performance and automatically guides the student through the curriculum. Reinforcement animations are entertaining and also include enriched language. Automatically produces comprehensive reports.

Prepositions! By Laureate Learning Systems. New! 6 modules
train 10 essential prepositions in a variety of contexts. Increases a
student’s ability to follow directions. The program begins with an
assessment to determine a student’s knowledge of prepositions.
During training, the software monitors the student’s responses and
adjusts the instructional support based on that performance. Built-in
reports allow the educator to review the student’s performance.

Prepositions:
• In/On
• In/On/Under
• Above/Below
• In Front of/In Back of
• In Front of/Next to/In Back of
• In Front/Between/Behind

Pronoun Perspective: 1st and 2nd Person By Laureate Learning Systems. New! Trains 1st and 2nd person pronouns
and develops 3rd person perspective. Improves social communication knowledge.

Includes 8 modules of training:
—Me/You —We/You
—My/Your —Our/Your
—I/You —Mine/Yours
—Us/You —Ours/Yours

BOBBILL By: Bill Downey and Bob Mayo. 11 songs teach language skills with music. Every song is a lesson – here’s a sampling: #2 Body
Parts; #3 Safety Rules; #5 Prepositions; #7 Colors; #8 Opposites; #9 I’m Special; #11 Consonants

Workbook: Early Learning Kit for “Songs for the Young Learner, provides IEP Goals, Standards and suggestions for use for each song. The Workbook also includes pictures/visuals for each song, early childhood curriculum targets and flash cards that can be colored by students.

Product Categories

Alternative Access Keyboards, Alternative Access Switches & Interfaces, Augmentative Communication, Early Concepts, Life Skills, Literacy, Math, Middle/High School Literacy, On Screen Keyboards, Pointing Devices, Speech and Language, Speech Recognition, Switch Control, Switch Training, Vision

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