Education Station Helping at Home Computer Games to Encourage Speech and Language in Children

Earobics Step 2 Home Version: Sound Foundations for Reading & Spelling
Product Description from Amazon:
Building on the foundation of phonological awareness, phonics, and auditory processing skill training delivered by Earobics Step 1, Earobics Step 2 also teaches language comprehension skills that are critical for extracting meaning from spoken language and written text. Earobics Step 2 features five interactive games with 593 levels that teach the essential skills required for learning how to read and spell. Recommended for ages 7-11.

Earobics Step 1 Home Version: Sound Foundations for Reading & Spelling
Product Description from Amazon:
Earobics is an excellent tool for teaching the phonological awareness and auditory processing skills that learning experts recognize as critical for learning how to read, speak and spell. Six fun interactive games with 309 levels deliver extensive training and practice. The software automatically adjusts to the appropriate skill level of the user based on the correctness of their responses. Earobics uses adaptive training and acoustically modified speech and carefully controls important learning variables. Designed for 2 players and a guest. Recommended for ages 4-7.

American Sign Language, ASL Tales and Games - Biscuit Blvd
Product Description from Amazon:
The ASL Tales and Games CD series follows Paws, the signing dog, and his friends as they explore their neighborhood. Each piece of software contains 3 community-focused stories and 10 games. Neighborhood children are deaf, hard of hearing, or multiply disabled, and represent different ethnic groups. Signing and/or audio are options for accessing information. Recommended for ages 4-8

ASL Tales and Games for Kids - Woof Woof Way. American Sign Language Level 1
Product Description by Amazon:
This CD, Woof Woof Way, focuses on events that take place on one street in Pawstown, Woof Woof Way. The stories are original and written to promote good English literacy, while simultaneously teaching important aspects of ASL. Each story can be viewed continuously, without the child needing to manipulate the mouse, or the child can control the story himself. Miriam Morrow, a deaf actress, signs each sentence dressed as Paws, the signing dog. Any word that is colored blue can be seen individually signed. Each story has three games, which reinforce skills in categorization, memory, spelling, literacy, visual processing, and creativity. The CD also contains a picture dictionary of the sign/English vocabulary used in the stories. The dictionary pictures can be printed. Children also can visit the video store on Woof Woof Way to see three ASL stories.

Fast ForWord Language To Reading (CD-ROM)
Product Description from Scientific Learning:
The Fast ForWord program is designed for K-12 education institutions and clinical specialists worldwide whose students are reading below grade level. The Fast ForWord program develops brain processing efficiency through intensive, adaptive exercises. Fast ForWord products offer tested, real-world results for educators and specialists around the globe. The Fast ForWord program develops and strengthens memory, attention, processing rate, and sequencing—the cognitive skills essential for learning and reading success. The strengthening of these skills results in a wide range of improved critical language and reading skills such as phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, decoding, working memory, syntax, grammar, and other skills necessary to learn how to read or to become a better reader. Fast ForWord products support existing curriculum—they don't replace it. They align to state mandates and have been an important factor in AYP success. And, most importantly, the gains students achieve are lasting, the result of enduring positive changes in their processing skills and learning capacity.

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