Description
A mixed type open-ended software for phonological awareness and language development. It has been developed by experienced special educators and speech therapists in an effort to create a tool with integrated contents, but also to have the option to easily add new content or edit the existing one.
The software contains a large database with records for each alphabet letter in English, Greek and Arabic.
Each record includes seven fields:
1. Grapheme (text)
2. Phoneme (grapheme’s sound)
3. Word starting with each grapheme (text)
4. Word starting with each grapheme (sound)
5. Sentence which includes the word (text)
6. Sentence which includes the word (sound)
7. Image of the word (picture or animation)
Example of a record:
1. «m», grapheme (the letter m in written form)
2. «m», phoneme (the sound of letter m)
3. «mom», a word starting with the letter m in written form
4. «mom», a word starting with the letter m in audio form
5. «I love my mom», a sentence including the word mom in written form
6. «I love my mom», a sentence including the word mom in audio form
7. Picture of animation of the word “mom”
Example of an activity:
The software contains 27 activities and each one of them includes ready-made exercises. You can create your own exercises using the content already included in the software’s database, editing the included records, deleting them or creating your own records. Each user can also decide on the colors he wants to use. He can have his own background color, text font, text size, text color, text background and scanning color to best suit his needs.
Each activity has options for enabling or disabling sound, image and text. You can decide which sound-text-image combination best suits each of your students. You can change display settings for making each activity easier or more difficulty.
The speech therapist, can also change an activity entirely by recording a new instruction for each exercise. This function offers many potentials as it makes the software a multi-tool, capable to be used in any subject.
The software includes basic phonology principles and it allows the student to work λογισμικό ακολουθεί βασικές αρχές της φωνολογίας and it gives the opportunity for systematic, structured or free labor in phoneme recognition, phoneme discrimination, grapheme recognition grapheme discrimination, grapheme-phoneme matching, in assonance and cutting (analysis, synthesis) of words and sentences. Additionally, it cultivates skills such as visual discrimination, auditory discrimination, observation, memory, categorization, sequencing etc.
The speech therapist creates a separate password protected account for each user, an administrator account for his self and a student account for each student.
Through the software you can print:
1. Screens
2. Students’ list
3. Reports
4. Lists for each exercise, including all its records
Advantages of the software
· Complete user control
· Option to add new content
· Option to add specific content for each student
· Meets the learning style of each child separately
· Suitable for many disabilities
· Offers audio feedback to the child
· Various accessibility options (touch screen, mouse, switch)
· Immediate correction, feedback and reward
· It records the performance and difficulties of each child
· Developed with universal learning design (ULD)
· Suitable for individual and group work
· It enables parents
· It cultivates multiple skills simultaneously (memory, visual observation, visual discrimination, sequence, classification, speech)
· It can be installed on a Tablet PC
· It's cheap
· Reduces the cost of inks and papers
· It is User friendly
· It stirs and maintain children's interest
· It has animation and multimedia
· Allows parents to get involved in the learning process
· Suitable for many skills (memory, visual discrimination, observation, sequencing, categorisation, oral speech).
The software is constantly being updated with new contents and activities.
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