Education Station Speech Therapy Software: for SLPs

Speechviewer III, IBM
"...a powerful speech and language tool that transforms spoken words and sounds into imaginative graphics. ...You can select from over a dozen SpeechViewer exercises. Each exercise responds to your voice input with immediate, clear and meaningful feedback that helps you 'see how to speak.' In addition, SpeechViewer III provides animated rewards that reinforce successful responses. ...The program's sophisticated clinical management functions automatically collect pertinent data that allow therapists to easily document progress and see and hear results."
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Visual Voice Tools, Edmark
"...a collection of seven 'tools' that help students and clients develop fine control of their voices. Beginning with simple sound awareness, these tools progress students through multiple aspects of voice. Each tool accepts vocal input and provides visual feedback in the form of an animated graphic and is designed to allow students to clearly establish the relationship between the graphic and vocal dimensions. Students learn and practice fine control of pitch, loudness, voicing and breath control for phonation.

TalkTime with Tucker, Laureate Learning Systems
"...a new voice-activated program that encourages children with speech impairments to vocalize. When your child talks or makes sounds into the microphone, Tucker moves and talks. Unlike voice recognition programs which require precise and accurate speech input, this program accepts a broad range of sounds and/or speech to make Tucker come alive. Almost any input is followed by an appropriate response..."

Tiger's Tale, Laureate Learning Systems
"...stimulates language production by encouraging students to 'talk' for a Tiger who has lost his voice. Preschool and elementary students alike will delight in recording their voices to create their very own movies. ...Tiger has lost his voice and needs help looking for it. Children 'talk' for Tiger and their voices are recorded to create a movie. When they're finished, they can watch their movies and hear themselves speaking for Tiger. ...During Tiger's search, a variety of animated characters appear and ask children questions to elicit their thoughts, suggestions, and opinions. Conversations are developed using your child's voice along with other pre-recorded voices..."

Irregular Verb Training, Laureate Learning Systems
Swim, Swam, Swum: Mastering Irregular Verbs

Following Directions: One and Two-Level Commands, Laureate Learning Systems
"...provides practice in following one and two step directions and exercises short term memory while teaching spatial relations and directional terms..."

Following Directions: Left and Right, Laureate Learning Systems

The Sentence Master: A Program for Success in Reading, Laureate Learning Systems
"...The program emphasizes the over-learning of non-content words, such as "the," "is," and "here," which make up over 50% of any page of text. A free CD-ROM DEMO of this program is available."

The Readable Stories Series: The Birthday Surprise, The Puppet Show, and The Hidden Toy, Laureate Learning Systems
"...a trio of programs designed to improve reading comprehension in early through intermediate readers. Each story can be presented at three different levels, controlled for sentence length, word order, and the use of clauses and idioms. After the story is finished, the reader is asked a series of comprehension questions..."

Locutour Multimedia Products, Learning Fundamentals

Articulation I Consonant Phonemes, "The articulation series was designed to allow drill and practice on the speech sounds necessary to improve speech intelligibility. The 1,320 words are grouped by voiced and voiceless phoneme pairs in 11 categories. The simple format of listening to the word, sounds, phrase, and sentences allows practice at all levels of complexity. Photographs were chosen to appeal to children with developmental articulation disorders... Articulation I is a comprehensive two disc set that covers English consonant singletons in the initial, medial and final positions. Disc 1 covers sounds that are often problematic for ages 4-7: p/b, t/d, f/v, th/th, sh/zh, ch/j, and m/n. Disc 2 contains sounds that are often problematic for ages 6-10: th/th, s/z, sh/zh, l, and r. Both discs can be used with adults with aphasia or language disorders."

Literacy: Phonemic Awareness
"Seven stimulating exercises provide all the basics of phoneme recognition; production; sound to symbol correlation; sound segmentation and blending; and recognition of syllables."

Look! Listen! and Learn Language!
" Early Intervention Activities for Language Development. Seven interactive activities for children with Autism, PDD, Aphasia, Down Syndrome, Language Delay, or Apraxia." Activities include, "And the Little Duck Goes Quack! Learn to identify the sounds that animals make..." and "Hello! Answer the phone, listen to a voice asking a question, and identify which person on the screen is speaking to you..."

I'm All Ears: Singing Into Reading with Fran Avni
" A collection of songs to help with rhyme recognition, completion, and production; syllable segmentation and deletion; and phoneme isolation, alliteration, and addition. Used to build pre-reading skills in children and give them an understanding of sounds and words that help them learn and understand language. Singer/songwriter Fran Avni has created original songs for children for over 20 years. Her songs are included in numerous language arts curricula including ongoing CBC Sesame Street repertoire. Songwriter storyteller Nancy Schimmel has been recognized for her songs by Parent 's Choice (two Gold Awards) and the American Library Association. Sample Lyrics from I'm All Ears: Eat a date, now drop the /t/ and have a good day Here's a plate, now crop the /t/ then go out to play Clip the /t/ from state, that 's where you want to stay Drop or crop or clip (4 claps) a sound away. Plant a seed, now crop the /d/ then jump into the sea Paint a bead, now drop the /d/ and buzz goes the bee Clip the /d/ from knead, and get down on one knee Drop or crop, clip or snip, (2 claps) a sound away."

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