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| ABC CD |
Ages
2-6 |
Windows |
$58 |
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Macintosh |
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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. |
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All
About Ourselves
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Ages
6-8 |
Windows |
$58
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Macintosh |
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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
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CD
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$79 |
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Workbook |
$15 |
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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 |
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Macintosh |
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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. |
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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.
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| Calculating
Crew |
Ages
8-12 |
Windows 98 95 |
$25 |
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Macintosh |
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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 |
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Macintosh |
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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 |
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Macintosh |
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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 |
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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 |
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Macintosh |
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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.
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| Comprehension
Upgrade |
Ages
11 thru adult |
Internet
Based |
Pricing
Information |
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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.
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| Crystal
Rain Forest |
Ages
8-13 |
Windows |
$80 |
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Macintosh |
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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.
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| Dada
DaVinci |
Ages
0-2 |
Windows |
$25 |
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Macintosh |
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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.
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| Diorama
Designer |
Ages
8-13 |
Windows |
$78 |
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Macintosh |
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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.
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| DoIt
Bumper Pack |
Ages
3-11 |
Windows |
Pricing
Information |
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The
Do IT Bumper Pack includes 22 math and literacy activities, 14 design
and 4 problem-solving tasks all in one great pack!
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| First
Class Music |
Ages
8-13 |
Windows |
$48 |
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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.
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| Fun
With Feelings |
Ages
6-11 |
Windows |
$49 |
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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.
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