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ABC CD Ages 2-6 Windows  $58
Macintosh

Have you ever seen the letter 't' turn into a tadpole? This talking animated alphabet will bring all 26 letters to life for your child. The delightful guide does flips, twirls, grins and congratulates your child with "All Right!" as he or she progresses through the program.  Your child will  improve visual discrimination by identifying letter shapes and auditory discrimination by listening to letter sounds.  From England. 

All About Ourselves

Ages 6-8 Windows  $58  
Macintosh

Simple drag-and-drop activities let kids create Venn diagrams, pictograms of eye colors and birthday months, and jigsaw puzzles of body parts. Sequencing, labeling, and sorting activities incorporate topics such as growing up and eating well. Early readers explore the senses and express their thoughts and preferences with the aid of word banks. Full speech support, talking stories, and slide shows make the program fun for non readers as well.

Birthday Party

Ages 4-8

Windows  

CD  

 $79

Workbook  

$15

Actual video clips of a birthday party with a child in the autism spectrum.  It addresses the different emotions, space, volume and language that are appropriate for both the host and guests during a special birthday event. The child is first familiarized with the appropriate vocabulary and responses, then asked to implement them in 10 different birthday party scenarios.  Great workbook provides structured activities and exercises for reading facial expressions.
BrainBuilder Ages 4 -adult Windows  $50
Macintosh

BrainBuilderŪ is a computer game where the player memorizes series of numbers using auditory and visual processing strategies. These exercises build short term memory, visual and auditory processing skills. As the player improves, the levels of difficulty increase.
Bucket and Spade Ages 5-8  Windows  Price Info.  

Teaches the names of 2 and 3 dimensional shapes, movement, and symmetry with lots of games and levels for hours of learning. Children will think they're on summer holiday as a friendly talking bucket and his side-kick shovel carry out the games at the beach.  

Calculating Crew Ages 8-12 Windows 98 95  $25
Macintosh

This is full-featured, fun, superhero-filled program.  Children learn about multiplication and division of whole numbers and decimals, number line concepts, 3D shapes and their properties, and money transactions. In four activities, students recover hidden treasures, deliver essential supplies to a distant planet, and examine 2D shapes and 3D solids which children can then print - this feature of the program is great for exercising visualization skills. 
Captain Coordinate Ages 7-9 Windows,  $58
Macintosh

Seven fully narrated, engaging activities designed to develop important geography, and math skills.  Each focused activity has three levels of tutorial and help options to encourage independent learning, while record keeping tracks children's progress.  With two modes of use, each activity can be practiced in isolation or as part of an exciting and entertaining adventure in which children help Captain Coordinate save a lost dinosaur egg from the greedy Profit twins.  Key content teaches route planning, timetables, compass points, map symbols and coordinates, scale, interpreting maps and aerial views.

Carnival Countdown Ages 5-7 Windows  $29
Macintosh

Five engaging activities invite children to explore and develop K-2nd grade math skills. Dozens of math topics and thousands of problems help students grasp basic math concepts and develop problem-solving skills. At this math-filled carnival, students focus on one- and two-digit addition and subtraction, 2D geometry, patterns, equivalencies, logic, attributes, and early multiplication and division.
Choices, Choices, 3.0 Ages 5-11 Windows  Pricing Information
Macintosh
Helps children develop the skills and awareness they need to make wise choices and to think through the consequences of their actions.  There are three CDs available in this series - Taking Responsibility, On the Play Ground and the Environment.  Includes enhanced graphics, sound effects and teacher management features.  These programs are designed for classroom use, but may be used at home with parents and children.  
Community Construction Kit Ages 8-13 Windows $78
Macintosh

Community Construction tool enables children to design buildings on the computer and turn them into 3-D paper cutouts. Children can design their own scaled-down versions of communities from different historical periods or recreate their own towns. This flexible program combines the power of technology with the proven effectiveness of hands-on manipulatives.

Comprehension Upgrade Ages    11 thru adult Internet Based Pricing Information

Comprehension Upgrade is an innovative, on-line course that typically improves reading comprehension by 1 to 2+ grade levels after 20 hours of instruction. The course teaches students how to read and understand textbooks, literature, and functional text. The reading starts at 5th grade in Level 1 and gradually progresses to 9th grade reading at Level 50.  Students learn to analyze what they read through story maps, organizers, K-W-L charts, and flow charts. Students also develop critical thinking skills and expand their vocabulary.  

Crystal Rain Forest Ages 8-13 Windows $80
  Macintosh

Crystal Rain Forest 2000 introduces the Logo programming language in a highly motivating way and provides your child with the opportunity to apply math to problem solving situations. Logo is a programming language developed to teach children how to program.  All the problems and puzzles are related to Logo and are encountered in a carefully structured manner so that users learn the many elements of Logo without even realizing it.  The planet Oglo is in big trouble... only your child can save its rain forests and its king by finding the magic crystals hidden in the rain forest.

Dada DaVinci Ages 0-2 Windows   $25
Macintosh

Dada DaVinci offers the beauty of classical and impressionist art to stimulate a child's interest in learning language.  It also uses classical masterpieces, including Mozart, to entice your child to learn while playing.  All a child has to do to go from one picture to the next is to click anywhere on the keyboard or mouse.  It teaches over 200 words in up to eight languages and can teach in multiple languages simultaneously, perfect for multi-lingual households. 

Diorama Designer Ages 8-13 Windows  $78
Macintosh

Making dioramas is easier than ever with this powerful new tool that allows children to design original dioramas on the computer and then print and assemble them. Children can choose from hundreds of historically accurate architectural elements and furnishings to create 3-D dioramas of building interiors from different time periods.

DoIt Bumper Pack Ages 3-11 Windows   Pricing Information  

The Do IT Bumper Pack includes 22 math and literacy activities, 14 design and 4 problem-solving tasks all in one great pack!  

First Class Music Ages 8-13 Windows  $48

Simply the best music education software I have ever come across!  Fun, great graphics, great sound - what more can you ask for?  Great for older and higher functioning children with an interest in music - great for any child!  Scores of first-rate lessons guide students step by step through the basic concepts of music with hundreds of interactive screens, tons of assessed activities, check points, and printable reports.  

Fun With Feelings Ages 6-11 Windows  $49

Simply the best music education software I have ever come across!  Fun, great graphics, great sound - what more can you ask for?  Great for older and higher functioning children with an interest in music - great for any child!  Scores of first-rate lessons guide students step by step through the basic concepts of music with hundreds of interactive screens, tons of assessed activities, check points, and printable reports.