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Pre-Reading Tutorial Program

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  1. A PURRFECT MATCH --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 01/2008) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- ...[More Information]

  2. AROUND THE COMMUNITY SOUND LOTTO (MODEL 41603) --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Around The Community, model 41603, is a pre-reading and independent living skills tutorial for children with disabilities. The game consists of four wooden score cards covered with brightly painted depictions of common activities, including a crying baby, a chicken, a motorcycle, a bus, a stream, and other similar objects and people. An audio tape of recorded sounds normally associated with each graphic is included in t...[More Information]

  3. BEAR JAM --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2010) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Bear Jam is an educational pre-reading program which provides practice in basic visual skills involved in later learning, including observing similarities, recognizing differences, and distinguishing patterns. The program includes six games with different user-specifiable levels of difficulty, to train familiarity with shapes and colors. The program requires a PowerPad (see entry) and has animation, music, and color rei...[More Information]

  4. BIG / LITTLE II --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 08/2012) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Big/Little II is a pre-reading tutorial program and modified game program designed to teach children the concepts of big and little, categorizing, and classification. The single switch scanning program allows 1 to 4 users to construct a big or little bear by selecting the appropriate body parts and clothing. The program may be configured by the clinician or therapist to show a variety of sizes, and the scanning speed ma...[More Information]

  5. BODY BUILDER --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2010) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Body Builder is a software program that permits users to "build a body" using the PowerPad. The head, torso, legs and feet of four different characters--ballerina, grandmother, weight lifter, and spaceman--are included. Pictures may be printed out with the name of the user. Body Builder requires a PowerPad and an Echo II speech synthesizer. COMPATIBILITY: For use on Apple IIe and Apple IIGS computers....[More Information]

  6. CHOICE MAKER I --- DISCONTINUED. RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Choice Maker I is an early childhood training program designed to teach children to make choices about which objects in the environment they wish to control. The program teaches cause/effect relationships, picture/object correlations, switch/picture/object correlations, picture discrimination, and scanning. The program also collects and analyzes performance data. A variety of peripherals can be used with the system, including speech synth...[More Information]

  7. COLOR FIND --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 07/96) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Color Find is a pre-reading tutorial program designed to teach color recognition and matching for preschool age children. The program presents large blocks of one of nine colors on the computer screen, and vocalizes instructions such as "press red." Color stickers corresponding to these colors are placed on the keyboard. The child is required to press the color key corresponding to the screen prompt color it matches. COMP...[More Information]

  8. COLOR TRACK --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 08/2012) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Color Track is a public domain software program designed to develop visual tracking skills of the individual user. A small colored square travels across the screen. Different colors may be selected for the background and for the target. The speed and travel direction of the square may be adjusted. The sound effect can be turned on or off. The square can be programmed to leave a trail. The square will repeat the program ...[More Information]

  9. COMMUNITY VEHICLES --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 08/2012) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Community Vehicles is a pre-reading tutorial program and modified game program designed to teach children, ages 3 years and up, about community vehicles. The game offers two levels of play for one to six players. At Level 1, the child selects a vehicle associated with a community helper (fire engine, ambulance, school bus, police car, garbage truck). At Level 2, the child matches a vehicle to the community helper presen...[More Information]

  10. COMPANION DISCONTINUED. (Verified 12/2002) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Companion is a multi-faceted communicator, environmental control unit program, and an academic tutorial program designed for use by individuals with physical, cognitive, or communication disabilities. Companion uses a graphical metaphor system to provide ease in communication. Each screen contains a background and objects--pictures, text, and invisible areas that can be selected using an input device; once selected, the obj...[More Information]

  11. COMPUTER CUP --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2005) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Computer CUP (Concept Understanding Program) is a pre-reading tutorial program consisting of six sets on nine disks designed to teach basic concepts for indivudals with cognitive disabilities. Each set presents different concepts. Set 1 teaches top, through, away from, next to, inside, middle, farthest; Set 2 teaches around, over, between, nearest, corner, behind, row; Set 3 teaches center, side, below, right-left, forw...[More Information]

  12. CONCEPT FORMATION: SHAPE MATCHING --- DISCONTINUED. RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Shape Matching is a shape recognition training program designed to teach preacademic and prereading skills. The program teaches the recognition of six basic shapes: cross, square, circle, triangle, semi- circle, and star. Shapes to be matched are presented at the bottom of the screen and the user operates the space bar and return key to select responses. The task varies in difficulty as a function of number of distractors, color cues, and...[More Information]

  13. EARLY CONCEPTS SKILLBUILDER SERIES --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 08/2012) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- The Early Concepts Skillbuilder Series is an academic tutorial program designed to teach and reinforce early language and pre-reading skills for individuals with a learning disability. More than 170 vocabulary words are presented from categories of colors, shapes, and objects. Pictures are used for introduce vocabulary and develop functional relationship concepts. The lessons teach a reading or language skill and reinfo...[More Information]

  14. EARLY LEARNING SERIES (MODEL A-166A-5) --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 06/2010) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- The Early Learning Series, model A-166A-5, is tutorial program featuring seven animated packages for children in preschool through the second grade. They are as follows: (1) First-Letter Fun (2) Fun from A to Z (3) Counting Critters (4) Arithmetic Critters (5) Picture Chompers (6) Patterns (7) Paint with Words. (See separate entries for further details). COMPATIBILITY: For use on Apple computers. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Mi...[More Information]

  15. EASY STREET --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 02/2010) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Easy Street is a pre reading and math tutorial program designed to build basic math and reading skills, visual memory skills as well as reinforcing discrimination skills for children with a developmental disability. Featuring digitized speech and a TouchWindow screen, this animated computer program presents the user with a wagon and a shopping list while introducing classification, labeling and matching skills. It also ...[More Information]

  16. EDMARK LESSONMAKER --- DISCONTINUED (Verified 3/2013) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Edmark LessonMaker is a language tutorial program designed to build and enhance vocabulary and oral language development, pre reading concepts and beginning reading skills for individuals with a developmental or physical disability. The lessons created are multisensory with speech, colorful graphics, and touch input with an optional TouchWindow (see separate entry) interaction. Teachers can design individual lesson plans ...[More Information]

  17. FIRST LETTER FUN (MODELS A-154-3 & A-154-5) --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 06/2010) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- First-Letter Fun, models A-154-3 & A-154-5, is a computerized alphabet game designed to provide a phonics lesson for pre-school to kindergarten children. The program features animated, colored scenes that present an object. From a group of four letters, the user must select the letter that matches the beginning sound of the object shown. COMPATIBILTY: For use on Apple computers. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: 64K - Model A-154-3 ...[More Information]

  18. FLOPPY TEACHES SERIES --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 08/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Floppy Teaches...Series is a series of letter and concept training games to teach letter recognition and visual matching skills. Four different programs are available, each of which provides various levels of difficulty and program options. Floppy Teaches Letter and Numeral Recognition presents a capital or small letter or numeral (0-9), and the user must find it from among a group of four or more options. Floppy Teache...[More Information]

  19. FRIDGE FRIEND --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 09/2007) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Fridge Friend is an alphabet game, pre-reading tutorial program, and Sign Language training program designed to make learning basic skills enjoyable for children with disabilities. Fridge Friend is a pad-style book designed to be affixed to the refrigerator using the attached magnetic strips. Each day a page is torn from the pad and posted separately using the included Freddie the Fridge refrigerator-shaped magnet. Each...[More Information]

  20. FUN & LEARN PHONICS BUS The Fun & Learn Phonics Bus is a pre-reading tutorial program designed for use by children between the ages of 18 months and four years with cognitive and learning disabilities. Riding on the bus are Leap the Frog, Dan the Dog, Darcy the Duck, and Callie the Cat, all of whom interact with one another and the child while introducing the concept that letters have names and sounds. The unit has four learning modes and pressing a character in a learning mode provides help. This three-dimensional bus...[More Information]

  21. FUN FROM A TO Z (MODELS A-164-3 & A-164-5) --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 06/2010) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Fun from A to Z, models A-164-3 & A-164-5, is a computerized alphabet game designed to provide beginning phonics skills for preschool and kindergarten children. The animated, colorful program asks the user to distinguish letters, match upper and lower case forms and recall alphabetic sequences. These activities are performed while the user helps the songbirds find their way home and complete connect-the-dot puzzles. COM...[More Information]

  22. GEOMETRIC FIGURES AND SPATIAL CONCEPTS --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 05/2009) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Geometric Figures and Spatial Concepts is a simple educational program with voice output. Various shapes (rectangles, circles, triangles, stars, etc.) are presented on the screen. The student is prompted by the synthesized voice to identify them. An object is shown in a variety of positions (such as inside a box, outside a house, or on a line), and the program prompts the student to indicate the right position word. A r...[More Information]

  23. INTERACTION GAMES --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 10/2000) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Interaction Games is a modified game program written for two switch users to play at the same time for individuals with a physical disability. The game set consists of nine games designed to teach cognitive, early academic and switch operation skills. Reading skills are not required to operate the games; verbal directions and auditory feedback are given. While playing the games, the visual-motor skills of press-release,...[More Information]

  24. JO-JO JOINS THE READING CIRCUS --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 02/2010) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- Jo-Jo Joins The Reading Circus is a pre reading tutorial program designed to build basic reading and pattern recognition skills (body awareness, self expression) for children in pre-school through the second grade. Featuring digitized speech, this animated computer program revolves around four circus characters--a clown, an acrobat, an animal tamer and a juggler. Each character helps the user develop specific reading sk...[More Information]

  25. LEAPPAD LEARNING CENTER & LEAPPAD DELUXE LEARNING CENTER --- DISCONTINUED. (Verified 11/2012) RETAINED IN DATABASE FOR REFERENCE. --- The LeapPad Learning Center is an electronic reading tutorial program designed for use by children aged four years and above with cognitive and learning disabilities. This unit uses "NearTouch" technology to read aloud the included interactive story book while the child uses the included "magic pen." The device identifies letters and words to aid in the process of learning to read, sounds out words phonetically, and pro...[More Information]

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