Slater Software, Inc.

351 Badger Circle
Guffey, Colorado 80820
United States
Telephone: 877-306-6968 or 719-479-2255.
Fax: 719-479-2254.
Web: http://www.slatersoftware.com.
Email: info@slatersoftware.com.

Products manufactured by Slater Software, Inc. (listed alphabetically)

1. C.L.A.S.S.

   C.L.A.S.S. (Complete Language Approach to Social Skills) is a personal skills and safety awareness tutorial program designed for children who have cognitive or learning disabilities or autism. This program can be used to teach social skills and personal safety. The program's Ready-to-use Picture-Assisted Reading and Writing materials and activities provide repeated interactions with the concepts promoting internalization and generalization. This software has two separate units available for purchase. The "Emotions: Expressing Negative Feelings" unit helps students recognize feelings of anger, reduce anxiety, and learn appropriate ways to express themselves. The "Safety: Leaving Poisons Alone" unit helps students learn about poisons, how to identify them, and what to do when poisons are found. Each unit covers all areas of language: listening, reading, writing and speaking. Each unit also comes with vocabulary, social stories, communication boards, PixWriter word banks, activities and scripts. Students learn to build social language vocabulary, read about social concepts, write about their learning, and express their needs. COMPATIBITLITY: Windows or Macintosh. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: PixWriter version 3.2 (see separate entry) or higher.

2. INTERACTIVE BOARD BOOKS

   Interactive Board Books are reading tutorial materials designed for children who have cognitive or learning disabilities. This bundle of five thick board books features stories with moveable pieces. These books allow children to read independently because the words are supported with Literacy Support Picture clues. The titles include: The Adventures of Hopper, Mixed up Morning, Monkey Business at the Market, Wonderful Snow, and At the Fire Station. OPTIONS: Individual books are available for purchase.

3. PAL ASSESSMENT

   The PAL (Picture Assisted Library) Assessment is a language development assessment program designed for use with children who have cognitive, communication or learning disabilities or autism. The program is a comprehensive, criterion-referenced test that allows a teacher to sequentially identify literacy milestones and behaviors. Using the PAL Assessment, teachers can assess receptive and expressive language skills, including identification and use of symbols, print awareness, emerging reading and writing skills and developing conventional literacy skills. The writing section can be used to evaluate and track expressive language growth. The reading section can be used to evaluate and track receptive language growth. The program also helps teachers identify literacy goals, track literacy achievement and Response to Intervention (RTI) progress, develop Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals and support portfolio assessments. Each PAL Assessment booklet contains four scoring/observation periods.

4. PICTURE IT

   Picture It is a symbolic language picture creation program designed for use by individuals with communication disabilities. This program quickly adds picture symbols to text by automatically locating symbols that match typed text. This program includes 10,500 high-resolution images in black-and-white or color. Custom images can be added by the user. It includes the LSP Thesaurus to enhance the software's ability to match the appropriate picture or symbol to a word. The program aids individuals in gaining literacy and language skills and increases receptive and expressive vocabularies. Picture It accommodates English and Spanish. COMPATIBILITY: IBM and compatible computers or Macintosh computers. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Windows 7, Vista or XP, or Macintosh OS 10.4 or later; 600 megabytes (MB) of hard disk space.

5. PICTURE IT AND PIXWRITER BUNDLE

   The Picture It and PixWriter Bundle is a symbolic language picture creation program and a voice output word processor program designed for use by individuals with communication, learning or cognitive disabilities. The combo includes over 10,500 Literacy Support Pictures in both programs, allowing the flexibility to customize materials and vocabulary designed to support all curricula and subjects in English and Spanish, and the user can import additional photographs, clipart and personal artwork. The Picture It program (see separate entry) quickly adds picture symbols to text by automatically locating symbols that match typed text. It includes the LSP Thesaurus to enhance the software's ability to match the appropriate picture or symbol to a word. The program aids the user in gaining literacy and language skills and increases receptive and expressive vocabularies. Available languages are English and Spanish. Intended for beginning readers and writers, the PixWriter program combines words, pictures, and speech. By selecting buttons, which hold words and graphics, users can write whole words, sentences, and stories. PixWriter supports writing using a mouse, keyboard, touch screen, one and two-step switch scanning, joystick and whiteboard. It also includes auditory scanning for people who are blind or have low vison. After selection, the word is written; a picture is automatically paired with that word and the picture is shown as the word is spoken. It supports 4, 16, 36 and 64 button setups. PixWriter uses the LSP Thesaurus to enhance the user's ability to select homonym meanings or adjust the word bank for an individual's needs. The PixCards feature also provides the ability to make PECS, flashcards or memory game cards. COMPATIBLITY: IBM and compatible computers or Macintosh computers. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Windows 7, Vista or XP, or Macintosh OS 10.4 or later; 600 megabytes (MB) of hard disk space.

6. PIXWRITER

   PixWriter is a voice output word processor program designed for use by individuals with learning or cognitive disabilities. Intended for beginning readers and writers, this program combines words, pictures, and speech. By selecting buttons, which hold words and graphics, users can write whole words, sentences, and stories. PixWriter supports writing using a mouse, keyboard, touch screen, one and two-step switch scanning, joystick and whiteboard. It also includes auditory scanning for people who are blind or have low vison. After selection, the word is written; a picture is automatically paired with that word and the picture is shown as the word is spoken. The program has over 10,500 Literacy Support Pictures with corresponding text and speech, and the user can import additional photographs, clipart and personal artwork. It supports 4, 16, 36 and 64 button setups. PixWriter includes the LSP Thesaurus to enhance the user's ability to select homonym meanings or adjust the word bank for an individual's needs. The PixCards feature also provides the ability to make PECS, flashcards or memory game cards. English and Spanish languages are supported. COMPATIBILITY: IBM and compatible computers and Macintosh computers. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Windows 7, Vista or XP, or Macintosh OS 10.4 or later; 600 megabytes (MB) of hard disk space.

7. READ AND TELL BUILD YOUR OWN LIBRARY

   Read and Tell Build Your Own Library is an academic, reading, language and vocabulary tutorial program designed for children who have cognitive or learning disabilities. This program allows teachers or parents to get the individual titles they need and build their own Read and Tell library over time. Each Read and Tell book comes with an adapted book, quizzes and vocabulary files that are ready to print and read. Ready-made PixWriter (see separate entry) word banks specific to the chapters help students demonstrate that they are comprehending what they are reading. Each file is reviewed, revised and updated with Literacy Support Pictures. Each title also includes Picture It files, a story map, a summary worksheet, character cards and a K-W-L chart. Available titles include "Freckle Juice," "Sarah, Plain and Tall," "My Side of the Mountain," "Because of Winn-Dixie," "The Red Badge of Courage," "Out of the Dust," "Number the Stars" and "The Great Gilly Hopkins." COMPATIBILITY: Windows or Macintosh. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Windows 7 or Mac OS X, Picture It 5.2 and PixWriter 5.2 (see separate entries) or higher.

8. READ AND TELL INTERMEDIATE COLLECTION

   The Read and Tell Intermediate Collection is an academic, reading, language and vocabulary tutorial program designed for children from second grade through fifth grade who have cognitive or learning disabilities. The program features Picture-Assistive Literacy which helps children independently read for meaning. Thirty chapter books are summarized with concept and vocabulary considerations. Each completed lesson contains picture-assisted chapter summaries and quizzes, vocabulary flashcards and definitions. This program requires PixWriter (see separate entry), and children use the included Literacy Support Pictures in the PixWriter word banks to retell the chapter and answer quiz questions. The book list includes: "Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie," "Because of Winn-Dixie," "Dear Mr. Henshaw," "Ella Enchanted," "Fourth Grade Rats," "Julie of the Wolves," "Little House on the Prairie" and "Maniac Magee." SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: PixWriter version 2.0 or higher (see separated entry) and Adobe Reader.

9. READ AND TELL PRIMARY COLLECTION

   The Read and Tell Primary Collection is an academic, reading, language and vocabulary tutorial program designed for children from pre-kindergarten through second grade who have cognitive or learning disabilities. This program requires PixWriter software (see separate entry) and comes with 160 PixWriter word banks for 100 popular children's books. These books include: "A Chair for My Mother," "Bedtime for Francis," "Caps for Sale," "Dinorella," "Emma's Vacation," "Farmer Duck," "Goldilocks and the Three Hares," "How Santa Got His Job," and "I Can't Get My Turtle to Move." The program allows children to retell popular pictures books which they may have read, or which may have been read to them. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: PixWriter v2.0 or higher (see separate record) and Adobe Reader.

10. READ AND TELL TEEN COLLECTION

    The Read and Tell Teen Collection is an academic, reading, language and vocabulary tutorial program designed for children from sixth grade through eighth grade who have cognitive or learning disabilities. This program enables students who are reading below grade level to enjoy age-appropriate literature, understand the story, learn higher-level vocabulary, complete written language activities and demonstrate comprehension. The program comes with 25 chapter books, and Literacy Support Pictures are added to chapter summaries, comprehension questions and vocabulary materials and are ready-to-print. The program requires PixWriter (see separate entry) and students use the included PixWriter word banks to write about these books. The book list includes: "A Christmas Carol," "Bridge to Terabithia," "Dicey’s Song," "Flowers for Algernon," "Hatcher," "Island of the Blue Dolphins," "Number the Stars" and "Out of the Dust." SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: PixWriter version 2.0 or higher (see separate entry) and Adobe Reader.

11. SIMPLY SCIENCE ALL 8 UNITS

    Simply Science All 8 Units is a science, academic, language, reading and vocabulary tutorial program designed for children from kindergarten through eighth grade who have cognitive or learning disabilities. This program allows teachers help students learn general education science curriculum with complex and abstract science vocabulary explained clearly and written in concrete terms. The bundle comes with eight complete units and each unit contains five chapters. The program's ready-to-use science lessons supported by projects and experiments provide differentiated instruction for every student in the class. Students can learn science concepts and vocabulary with text supported by Literacy Support Pictures. Ready-to-print PDFs (made with Picture It) include instructional text, project directions, quizzes and worksheets; and students can demonstrate their comprehension by writing with ready-made PixWriter setups. The units include: Simply Science Health, Simply Science Nervous System, Simply Science Electricity, Simply Science Earth Vol. 1, Simply Science Earth Vol. 2, Simply Science Animals Vol. 1, Simply Science Animals Vol. 2, and Simply Science Energy. OPTIONS: Individual units are available for purchase. COMPATIBILITY: Windows or Macintosh. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Picture It and PixWriter version 2.0 or higher (see separate entries).

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