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| Grammar |
Ages
8-15 |
Windows |
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The Hooper family makes learning grammar
fun! This comprehensive collection of activities takes kids back to the
beach and lets them accumulate points as they complete engaging,
structured grammar activities. Navigate scrambling beach crabs, avoid
cruising sharks, and dangerous jellyfish while improving usage of nouns
and verbs. The more points you earn, the more reward games you can play! |
| GrammarTrainer |
Ages
4 & up |
Windows |
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GrammarTrainer is an innovative new software course that
teaches children to communicate with longer sentences while improving
their grammar and writing. GrammarTrainer is the perfect next step
in building your child's language skills if your child knows the words for basic shapes and colors,
can type simple words, but has trouble formulating sentences and/or using correct
grammar.
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| Great
Action Adventure |
Ages
2-6 |
Windows |
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The Great Action Adventure teaches verbs and related nouns to
children within the autism spectrum . It includes live-action video
clips of children acting out the verbs.
Children can play the action videos by themselves and learn the associated nouns or signs.
Older children who already know common nouns and verbs, can use a more
advanced setting to learn appropriate verb tenses. If your computer has a touch screen, children too young to use a mouse can touch a verb on the screen and watch it come to life.
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| Junior
CAD and BoxIT |
Ages
7-10 |
Windows |
$90 |
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Junior CAD and BoxIT are designed to give
students a taste of 3D shape manipulation in design work. The student
can develop their won 3D images or use the pre-drawn shapes for
manipulation. Once drawn the 3D image can be rotated and scaled. |
| Just
Like Series |
Ages
7-14 |
Windows |
$68 |
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The four animated stories in the Just
Like series offer much-needed support for children facing difficult
issues. Topics such as bullying, disruptive behavior, and dealing with
parental expectations and conflict at home are de-mystified by the
series. Each story and the accompanying activities facilitate exchange
between students, teachers, and guidance counselors about issues
relating to personal and social development that affect emotional
well-being, behavior, and learning. Each CD in the series is based on a
true story, and portrays children who display courage, humor and
compassion when faced with adversity. The aim of the series is to give
children a sense of hope and a belief that change can happen, as well as
to foster empathy, tolerance, and understanding in the classroom,
school, and communitiy. |
| Kidspiration |
Ages 4-7 |
Windows |
$116 |
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Kidspiration is an award-winning program
that encourages children to
express themselves and express their thoughts with this innovative title
which allows them to grasp new concepts and begin to categorize,
brainstorm and organize their thoughts in a natural, visual way.
Kidspiration has two viewing screens:
Picture View and Writing View. Picture View makes it easy for pupils to
see their ideas and information visually, taking advantage of the
principles of visual learning, allowing pupils to represent their ideas
using symbols.
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| Leaps
and Bounds 1 |
Ages
3 & up |
Windows |
$43 |
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A simple interface leads your child
through 6 activities that will stimulate his or her imagination and help
develop pre-reading skills. Each activity has lively, colorful
characters, catchy music, and fun surprises. Left-to-right tracking,
visual and auditory discrimination, prediction, concentration, and
memory are just some of the skills your child will truly enjoy
developing. Throughout the program your child practices mouse skills and
improves fine motor control. Mouse clicking lets your child hear animal
sounds, stimulate actions, make a tune, uncover clues, and match
animated characters in pairs. From England.
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| Leaps
and Bounds 2 |
Ages
3 &up |
Windows, |
$43 |
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The first Leaps and Bounds was such a hit, they had to
create a second one! More energetic, colorful characters delight
pre-school children with dancing, bubble-blowing, and other antics in 6
fun-filled activities. A simple user interface and text-free activities
are designed to help early learners develop vital pre-reading skills.
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| Leaps
and Bounds 3 |
Ages
3 & up |
Windows |
$43 |
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Colorful elephants carrying whimsical
creatures on their heads lead children into six fantastic activities.
Opportunities for experimentation, problem-solving, language
development, fine-motor skill development, sound discrimination and more
abound in this third title in the popular Leaps and Bounds series. |
| Map
Detectives |
Ages
8-13 |
Windows |
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In Map Detectives, Rural Mystery, a delightful and fun way to learn map reading skills by
solving two mysteries, similar to the game, Clue.Was it
Evil Edna, Slimy Simon, or another criminal? Lady Hartley will reward you
if you can find the thief menacing her manor. You're the detective in this
innovative mapping program.
In Map Detectives, Urban Mystery, Rich
Spangle’s celebrity party was ruined when someone stole one of his
most treasured possessions. Can your child use his or her geography and
map reading skills to help track down the culprit?
Use geography and mapping skills to solve a
series of baffling burglaries in two interactive mystery games. Children
will develop their ability to use map symbols, grid references, distance
and scale as they search for the missing objects and collect clues.
Humorous photos, lively animations, maps, and sounds will engage students
as they navigate their way through ingenious, ever-changing plots.
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| MicroWorlds
EX |
Ages
9 and up |
Windows |
$125 |
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MicroWorlds EX is a version of the Logo programing language that was designed for middle-school and high
school children, but younger children can use it with adult guidance. It has a highly visual, graphic interface. There are also logo web
sites that have suggested projects for children to try out, including the
computer source code. If you have a technically savvy child, this
would be a wonderful way to introduce programming. |
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MindReading
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Ages
8 and up |
Windows |
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Perhaps
the single most outstanding piece of software yet to be developed for
children in the autism spectrum, Mind Reading provides a
live-action video library of all human emotions. Children and adults can explore over 412 emotions, seeing and hearing each one
performed by six different people. There are also mini-stories to
provide contexts. There are 2472 faces, 2472 voices and 2472 stories, all
about emotions. There are also games to play and quizzes to
reinforce learning. From England. |
| Music
Box 2 |
Ages
5-15 |
Windows |
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An award winning
innovative musical education program that allows children to explore
sounds, chords, percussion and composition by 'painting' on the
screen. |
| Musical
Leaps and Bounds |
Ages
4 & up |
Windows |
$43 |
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Many children in the autism spectrum are
highly attuned to music. Turn on The Moody Jukebox, Let's Dance,
and The Singing Blobs in this new CD-ROM from the highly popular Leaps
and Bounds series. Music and listening activities are the focus of the 6
well-planned, engaging activities. Musical Leaps and Bounds encourages
children to respond, explore, experiment, express, and communicate their
ideas in imaginative ways. Musical Leaps and Bounds helps kids
improve listening skills, lengthen attention span, enhance visual and
auditory memory, and develop mouse skills and hand-eye coordination.
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| My
School Day |
Ages
6-15 |
Windows |
$89 |
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Socialization software software developed
by speech therapists specializing in autism, My School Day teaches the
routine and social pragmatics of school through video clips. Four
levels of play and tracking of progress. Great for parents,
educators, and therapists!
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| Nature
Park Geometry |
Ages
7-9 |
Windows |
$58 |
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In
Nature
Park,
children must pit their wits against the Glob monster and the Trogs
to try and rescue the missing butterflies, solving problems along the way.In
addition to focusing on the Shape, Space and Measuring aspects of
mathematics, Nature Park also provides many starting points for work on
environmental issues.
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| Neighborhood
MapMachine |
Ages
6-11 |
Windows |
$78 |
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Neighborhood MapMachine enables children to create,
navigate, and print maps of their own neighborhoods, other communities,
or imaginary places using objects such as roads, trees, buildings, and
parks. As children map out their towns, they learn essential geography
skills such as direction, distance and scale, grid coordinates, and
symbols.
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