Wordshark is a major teaching resource used widely in schools.
It is suitable for Key-stage 1-3, early literacy to 13 years or so. The games and the selection of pre-recorded words have been specially targeted to assist those with specific learning difficulties/dyslexia. The variety of games, concepts and words make Wordshark suitable for use in both primary and secondary schools as well as at home.
The 41 games provide high motivation and interest. Each game is designed to help with one or more aspects of reading and spelling. Variable levels and speeds for each game to meet all grades of skill levels. Games provide good training in mouse and keyboard skills.
The word lists are presented in 3 alternative structured courses to cover the Literacy Hour, the 3 stages of the book `Alpha to Omega` or as a Secondary Adult SEN. Words are grouped in a structured sequence to reinforce the learning process. Contextual uses of words are provided in sentences for every list. Pupils can work independently on pre-selected word lists. Choice of words based on all 3 stages of the book `Alpha to Omega`. Facility to record your own word lists. Easy to follow manual including all word lists and teaching notes. Help boxes are relevant to the current screen with on screen teaching notes. Printouts of wordsearch and sentence worksheets are available for every list to reinforce learning.

This structured course covering 500 topics supports the renewed DfES Framework. 45 games teach and reinforce numeracy, promoting both understanding and memorising of number facts and the standard written methods. Games include practice in different aspects of place value, ordering, grouping, commutativity, exchange and links between operations. 1500 word problems help put numbers into context. Rods, number line, scale, digits, words, abacus, number pad and 100square show numbers in many of their different formats. Mental strategies are well addressed at all levels.
The CD addresses many of the difficulties which lead students to dislike maths, including poor short-term memory, limited attention span and poor sequencing skills. Teachers can set up individual programmes of work to support Personalised Learning and records of student activities are kept. Variable options in the games meet all grades of skill and Help screens can be shown and spoken alongside games as you play them.

Nessy Tales are designed to motivate reluctant readers and help build confidence. A limited vocabulary of decodable words is combined with animated pages to engage older children with a lower reading ability.
These short stories are ideal for those with limited concentration. The text on each page is well spaced out and limited to 2 or 3 sentences. Words are highlighted as they are read. Narration can be turned on or off to allow for periods of rest between reading.
The 5 animated stories each has an interactive quiz and colourful supporting worksheets.

These short stories are ideal for those with limited concentration. The text on each page is well spaced out and limited to 2 or 3 sentences. Words are highlighted as they are read. Narration can be turned on or off to allow for periods of rest between reading.

Journey to the distant mountains of Ness, hatch the mystery egg and grow your own pet monster. As Nessy grows you are led through a series of motivating games that follow a structured reading and spelling programme devised by specialist teachers.

GamesPlayer can be followed independently or used to provide support for the Nessy Learning Programme. Users can record their own words to play with or select from the comprehensive pre-recorded lists that include key words from the National Literacy Strategy. The range of difficulty options makes GamesPlayer suitable for all children, including both gifted students and those with special educational needs.

Game-based learning rapidly improves reading and spelling but to be really effective Nessy GamesPlayer has been designed to create a multi-sensory learning environment (see, hear, say and do). All the words introduced in the games have been carefully graded to ensure a steady progression. Multiple levels cater for children of all ages and abilities.

Improve spelling
Increase reading speed
Extend vocabulary
Build self-confidence and self-motivation
Guides your child without supervision
Designed by British specialist teachers
Learn National Curriculum Key Stage word lists
Ideal as a home support

Nessy Fingers gives you a flying start at school. Master the keyboard to learn a lifelong skill.Nessy is so easy to use you can work independently. You will soon see significant improvements in confidence and self-esteem.
Nessy fingers is a powerful way to improve spelling by developing your memory for movement.

Special features:

Rapid learning in 5 short lessons
Swim as Nessy to set personal speed and accuracy targets
Type your own tunes. Import mp3s to play with the games
Type using your own words
A wide range of options to personalise settings
Stickers to cover the keys and ensure learning is by touch.
Colour coding to aid fast laerning.

Memorise key positions - learn correct finger
placement and posture.
Accuracy - an early emphasis upon typing accurately.
Speed - games motivate practice. Practice develops speed.

Explore the land of Ness and play 9 fantastic games. In the Dungeon of Doom battle dragons, skeletons and ghosts. On Monkey Island play penalty shootout with Burt the boss gorilla. At Penguin Mountains crush Rocky under a giant snowball. Win bigger and better trophies, medals and awards in the Hall of Fame.

Features
Interactive records, assessments and group monitoring
5,000 words and sentences
20 computer games 25 animated rules
70 animated phonemes
Library of interactive mnemonics and word endings
120 lesson plans with strategies for learning
Facility to record and play games with your own words
Over 1000 printable games and worksheets
40 interactive worksheets
Interactive comic explains ‘What’s it like being dyslexic?’
The Fair - 9 games to maintain motivation
Printable certificates
Punctuation, reading accuracy, dictionary skills, grammar
Writing and planning strategies

Nessy encourages positive, independent, learning. Students are encouraged to mark their own work and take on more responsibility for their own learning, playing games, watching rules and completing interactive worksheets. Their efforts are rewarded with Nessy Nuggets, which can be used at an interactive Fairground.
The game based learning has proved extremely effective in addressing the needs of disaffected students, motivating and building self-esteem.
Includes an A4 printed teaching manual full of information about dyslexia. Has proved successful with EBD, EAL, Down’s Syndrome, Asperger’s as well as mainstream pupils.

Description


Motivate and encourage with 350 colourful stickers. See all your favourite Nessy characters and choose from 35 different designs.

Includes a Land of Ness achievement chart. Collect 10 stickers as you journey across the magical islands of Ness to the peak of Mount Glory.



Features

•350 stickers
•Glossy gatefold ’ Land of Ness’ achievement chart
•'Easy peel' stickers leave no residue
•35 different designs
•10 sheets in each pack

Spelling Force is the complete spelling tutor for classroom and home

Spelling Force can assist struggling learners by giving them words appropriate to their level; expand and develop their spelling vocabulary; and challenge them with new words and spelling rules to mature their spelling skills.

Spelling Force is simple-to-use and comprehensive spelling software that brings to your home computer an extensive bank of graded spelling lists. Four awesome games with flexible options challenge the most advanced student but are accessible to those with special needs.


•Suitable for: Ages 4 - 15, Key Stages 1 - 3.


•Subject Area: Spelling.


•Content: Spelling, Phonics, Vocabulary.

Description
For visual mapping, outlining, writing and making presentations, use Inspiration 9, the ultimate thinking and learning tool. Brainstorm ideas, structure your thoughts and visually communicate concepts to strengthen understanding with the Diagram and Map Views. To take notes, organise information, and structure writing for plans, essays and reports, use the integrated Outline View. With Inspiration's Presentation Manager, transform your diagrams, mind maps and outlines into polished presentations that communicate ideas clearly and demonstrate understanding and knowledge.
Features
¦Inspiration makes it easy to create webs, idea maps, mind maps, concept maps, graphic organisers, process flows, and other diagrams for thinking, organising and writing. Use these proven visual thinking and learning techniques to explore and explain relationships and integrate new knowledge with what you already know.
¦Get organised and think through projects and assignments more effectively using the Inspiration Outline View. Structure and organise your work for planning and writing.
¦Use the content you have developed in Diagram, Map and Outline Views and expand your work into presentations and final projects. The Inspiration Presentation Manager provides all the tools you need to create organised, polished presentations that convey ideas clearly and demonstrate your understanding and knowledge.
¦Visually represent concepts more effectively with new symbol libraries designed to support curriculum content
¦Develop slides from content automatically generated from Diagram, Map and Outline Views
Benefits
¦Pupils develop essential learning strategies as they create visual diagrams to represent mind maps, concepts and relationships.
¦Compile and sort a wide of range of digital resources into a central Inspiration document. HTML export including linked resources makes this ideal for supporting DiDA.
¦Pupils use visual diagrams to develop and organise ideas as they start the writing process.
¦Supports the planning and writing of essays, stories, letters, reports, websites, Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations and projects
¦Ideal tool for presenting information in stages and as part of a Q&A session.
¦Visual representation deepens the pupils understanding of concepts and identifies misconceptions.
¦Export documents as PDFs - ideal for creating resources to use within a VLE

Features & Benefits
A Busy Day, based on the daily life of a child, offers a different approach for those who find the process of reading difficult. It provides the basic fundamentals for early literacy involving pre-reading, writing and communication skills. It is a flexible reading approach linking pictures and text with functional nouns.

This interactive reading tool can be adapted to suit the needs of slow starters in the mainstream classroom, for those with communication and language difficulties and for students learning English as a second language. It teaches comprehension of the printed word in an interesting, fun and motivational way.



Contents
Fully switch accessible, including using voice input
13 interactive pages at 3 different levels
3 games to develop word recognition and observation with 3 levels of difficulty
3 word levels
Customisable word bank
Printable worksheets, certificates and lotto boards
Clipart

Sound Beginnings 2 is the second edition of this unique, highly motivational interactive resource designed to encourage communication in young children and those with special education needs.
This edition encompasses even more exciting activities using voice stimulus. A simple microphone is all that is needed - voice input training or complicated configurations are not required.
All the activities can be configured to suit individual users. You can also track progress of an individual through printable user records. There is even a gallery that can be viewed showing saved screenshots from certain activities that a user has accessed.

Activities include:

Counting
Flying
Painting
Racing
Placing

Develop fine motor skills with these colourful 6cm nuts and bolts! Nuts and bolts are a great focus for fidgeting fingers. Come in four shapes and four colours and differ in size of thread. Includes storage tub.
Set of 64 Nuts and Bolts

This is an ideal resource for both class teachers and teaching assistants.

In writing this practical book, Ronit Bird has drawn on her teaching and training experience to create teaching plans for key numeracy topics.

Included are detailed strategies for teaching numeracy skills through a progression of practical activities and visualisation techniques which build the self-esteem of students who need extra help and give them a basic foundation in number.

While the plans cover the National Numeracy Strategy, they can also be used in any setting where maths is being taught. Topics covered include: games and puzzles for learning number components, bridging, multiplication, division, reasoning strategies.

A bank of accompanying resources, games and activities is available on the CD included with this book.

Ages 9+

168 pages.

BETT Award 2010 Finalist!

This simple device is easily operated by the teacher though remote control and allows children to self monitor their behaviour.

Teachers or children can set the task time, 15, 25 or 40 minutes, the count rate 10,20, or 30 seconds, and then the attention tracker will count up or down appropriately, using the red, amber and green lights to indicate how far through the time the children are.

Teachers can add or remove time if required.

A great resource for children with ADHD and for supporting all students in extended desk driven tasks.

Requires 3 x AA batteries, size H 11 x W 12 x D 12 cm

Develop learn-to-dress skills with this cleverly designed wooden board. Learning how to use real zips, press studs, buckle, laces and a clasp. Size: H300 x 400mm

Use these hand operated puppets to accompany our larger puppet range as younger brothers/sisters for them, or use these high quality smaller puppets as a cheaper alternative in circle time, assembly, or in class to discuss behaviour and emotions. Height of puppet 380mm
Also available:
Brown Hair Girl Puppet Buddy
Black Boy Puppet Buddy
Asian Boy Puppet Buddy

Please ring for alternative buddy options.

Develop fine motor skills with these beautifully crafted threading shapes.

Set of 6, with wooden peg laces.

For ages 3yrs+.
Approx 20cm.

Bursting with games, activities and practical advice this book will help to make life more fun and manageable for children with ADHD.

Use these games to sharpen the senses and help children increase their perception and understanding of the world around them. Including games for vision, taste, smell and touch. A handy pocket book full of easy to use activities! Ages 5-16 years. A5, 64 pages.

Bursting with games, activities and practical advice this book will help to make life more fun and manageable for children with ADHD.

Intelli-Moves! A tried and tested motor skills programme specifically aiming to develop postural control and core stability. Designed by paediatric therapists. Practical, easy to apply activities . Includes a six week programme example. Suitable for all pupils 4 and above. 56 pages.

nasen Award Winner 2008 - Book to support Teaching and Learning - Teacher Book

Whether introducing handwriting for the first time or supporting older children with difficulties, this book is packed with practical guidance to help.

Taking a holistic approach, it addresses the environment, postural and physical elements required for effective and automatic handwriting.

It includes:

•'Ready to Write' Assessments
•Handwriting Fundamentals
•'Review and Assess' worksheets
•Photocopiable Resources

Sort colourful shorts, shirts, socks and shoes by one or two attributes. This engaging set helps children practise making and completing patterns, and targets colour and clothing vocabulary. Includes 15 double-sided Activity Cards, 40 double-sided clothing cards and Activity Guide. All cards are write & wipe. Sturdy suitcase measures 27.5cm L x 18cm W and stores all the pieces.

Many children find drawing more pleasurable than writing. These activities and worksheets use drawing as the basis for exploring emotional issues and promoting children's emotional literacy. Develop self-esteem by helping children to identify strengths, achievements and aspirations. Many activities creatively explore a sense of personal power, helping them to take responsibility for their emotions and actions. Identify and define a wide range of emotions, expand emotional vocabulary and explore more complex feelings. Children are encouraged to define feelings such as jealousy and embarrassment in both words and drawings. Encourage children to consider other people's feelings and preferences. Some activities offer specific viewpoints to concentrate on. Each activity has a clearly stated aim with follow-on ideas. The entire book is also included on a CD-ROM. Contains 48 A4 pages.

Beginning with a look at understanding dyslexia, this book shows you how to involve the whole school in order to achieve a dyslexia-friendly environment. You will be able to:
•use an audit tool to discover how dyslexia-friendly your school is
•look at examples of successful dyslexia-friendly initiatives
•find information on funding and resources.

This book offers a step-by-step guide to creating a dyslexia-friendly classroom and whole-school environment. Headteachers, class teachers and SENCOs wanting to make their school more dyslexia-friendly will find this practical book extremely useful. A4, 120 pages.

This ergonomic pen is excellent for children with poor fine motor control. 15cmL

An easy-to-hold pen that allows you to clearly see the words that you are writing. Also ideal for left-handed writers.

This clever device helps maintain proper position of the pencil in the hand. Simply place the loop around the wrist then grasp the pencil and place other loop around the upper end of the pencil. The child holds the friendly plastic charm between their little finger and next finger. Strnage though it sounds, it closes the grip and is really effective.

These are the ideal way to motivate children to develop fluent, comfortable handwriting.

Encourage correct writing grip as too much pressure means the pen will light up.

Pack of 6.

This is a specially designed programme to help left-handed writers. In this world of right handed people where most texts are written from left-to-right the left handed student sometimes needs some assistance and this series is here to help.

Titles 1, 2 and 3 each contain 28 worksheets to initially aid motor-skill development, formation and flow, finishing with the successful smudge-free writing using ink. Both the Schools Edition and CD ROM combine all three titles. All worksheets are photocopiable.

This book uses a phonic based approach to learning spellings through a structured programme of word lists and dictation exercises.

The multi-sensory learning method recommended for use with these lists and high frequency words makes spelling fun and helps develop kinaesthetic memory.

This is good practice for all children and has proved particularly effective for those with dyslexia or poor visual memories.

The programme is designed to give children confidence as they are only required to spell words they have previously learnt, boosting self-esteem and making success more achievable.

This soft plush Giraffe is immensely appealing, he's made from super-soft material which makes him irresistible to touch. Press his paw and watch him take a deep breath and start snoring realistically. Batteries are included.

The Cuddle Ball is a bright and colourful ball that is made of soft and tactile fabric. You can put your arms through the ball and cuddle it. There is a bell inside the ball that you can hear rattle when you shake it. Size 30cm diameter.

Fine Motor Development

PlayFoam is soft and mouldable. The bright colours inspire imaginative play, while the delicate texture encourages fine motor development. Eight colours included: yellow, blue, green, orange, pink, white, purple and grey. PlayFoam never dries out and won't crumble or dtick to skin or other surfaces - so cleaning up is easy! Non-toxic and non-allergenic.

Dyspraxia item:

These 1/4 Ib wrist weights are not only useful, they are attractive to children. Soft to touch, each weight features dots or smiles and a secure hook-and-loop closure. Fits wrists and ankles from 12-27cm circumference (measure around wrist or ankle). Sold in pairs. Choose either Dots or Smiles.

Autism Item:
This is an excellent 'discreet' way for children with autism to communicate how they are feeling with you.

The pencil case has 3 coloured sides - red, yellow and green

The child can show the pencil case facing a different colour towards you depending on how they are feeling:

•red if they need help,
•yellow if they would like help if you are free
•green if they are happy getting on with their work on their own.
The red side of the pencil case is at the bottom of the pencil case so the default position is green or yellow.

Size: 20cm L

Special thanks to the Halifax speech and language therapist team for this idea.

This lovely new puppet is an exciting way to teach speech and language skills. Use the tongue in the crocodiles mouth to show the children how to form sounds and think about speech in a fun way.

The tongue can be used to point to different parts of the mouth and show where the sound is being formed.

Sadie Lewis has written really helpful and inspiring notes for our croc!

Approx 50cm in length.

Have fun developing fine manipulative skills. Each tool has been carefully selected to demonstrate a range of actions from easy to more complex pincer movements. Set includes: 2 x spinners, 1 x teabag squeezer, 2 x tongs, 1 x 5pk. measuring spoons, 2 x plastic tweezers and double sorting palette. 9pk.

Features:
Large vocabulary of over 30,000 words
Use voice to turn speech into text at up to 160 words per minute
Control your PC, start programs, use menus and surf the web
NEW! Can now use Bluetooth Wireless Microphones
Ideal for dyslexia, limited mobility, or RSI
Compatible with all Microsoft Office Applications
'Select and say' allows rapid document editing
Create time saving shortcuts
Market Leading Speech Recognition Software
Avoid Spelling and Typing Errors - 99% Accuracy


New features with Version 10:
Complete enterprise network support
New security features
Special management guide for IT professionals
Support for Citrix deployments
Voice Shortcuts for Email and Calendar, Web Search and Desktop Search

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Using a Jumbo Grip pencil is great for younger children who require help with 'grip' control and developing fine motor skills

These Jumbo Grip colour pencils have a thick triangular shape that gives better control and the soft-grips on the the pencils help children with early 'Grip' development. Pk 12 assorted colours.

These crayons strengthen fine and gross motor skills and promote user independence through grip control. Ideal for children with writing difficulties. Pk 6 solid colours.

The BIGtrack is the ultimate in comfort and control. Highly recommended for those with arthritis, severe RSI and other upper limb disorders, this giant trackball is a delight to use.
The included software allows the buttons to be programmed, so you can switch which button acts as the mouse click, right click or even double click. The BIGtrack can even be plugged into the computer alongside other mice, so you can keep your conventional mouse too.
BIGtrack excellent for lap use as well as desktop use. The ball itself is 3 inches in diameter.
Allow 3-5 working days for delivery
M-BT

Description: Short-term memory problems can lead to low self-confidence, a negative attitude towards school, a low score on assessments of language comprehension or an erratic pattern of errors. Written by a practising speech & language therapist, this book provides a structured yet flexible approach to addressing the needs of such children. This practical resource provides a complete programme of ideas for developing a child's short-term memory skills. The programme can be administered in its entirety, or as an accompaniment to clinician's existing packages of care, and is best suited to individual intervention. The book provides a structured programme for individual therapy, although activities may be adapted for group therapy. Containing photocopiable activity sheets and supporting material, ideal for use with 7 to 11 year-olds, the book also includes child-friendly recording forms and progress charts. Contains 144 A4 spiral-bound pages.

Zak the Zebra has trouble paying attention and fidgets a lot, especially when he goes on a school trip to a local art gallery. Dr Spot suspects ADHD and shows young Zak how to control his symptoms. 32 pages.

Brian Bear thinks he's stupid because he makes mistakes with his letters and words and can't tell his right from his left. But Dr Spot and a specialist teacher help him understand that there is nothing 'wrong' with him, he just has dyslexia, and Brian is soon back on top form.

A guide for family and friends. Meet Adam - a young boy with AS. Adam invites young readers to learn about AS from his perspective. He helps children understand the difficulties faced by a child with AS - he tells them what AS is, what it feels like to have AS and how they can help children with AS by understanding their differences and appreciating their many talents. 48 pages.

Product code: SD08123

This simple colour and collage kit is suitable for young children and those with special needs. When complete the frieze is colourful, attractive and will make an eye catching feature on any classroom wall.

Contents includes:
10 jigsaw style cards with printed people shapes and a box underneath for their names
A good selection of craft materials
Full teacher's notes

This program is designed to support those who have not yet enjoyed success in mastering awkward spellings. It is aimed at beginning and developing readers aged 7 plus, learners with specific learning difficulties including dyslexia, and those who may find using mnemonics a useful tool for memorising important information.
Visual animations provide motivating memory aids that are reinforced with the auditory production of the spelling. Pupils practise the spelling and are encouraged to make, record, draw and print their own mnemonic.
Clip art, teaching suggestions, teacher records and an accompanying set of cards are also included.

Designed primarily to help learners to target a location on screen. Learners develop eye-hand co-ordination skills by popping balloons as they float past, in a game-like environment.
Using a touch monitor, direct targeting skills can be developed. Touch each balloon to pop it. Using a mouse, pupils learn to move the mouse over a balloon and click to pop it. Using a switch, students learn to watch the scanning area, and hit the switch to burst a balloon when it drifts under the cursor.

This program has been specifically designed for use in the classroom and optimized for networks. It is suitable for teaching music making to students of all ages and abilities.
Covering the following key areas in music- arranging, creating and developing ideas, improvising, refining and improving, rhythm, pulse, pitch, melody, structure and harmony. Import samples in MP3 or WAV format, record your own samples and export your mix as a WAV file. Also includes more than 3,500 royalty-free dance, club and lounge samples from Dance eJay 5.

FEATURES
• 48-track sound mixer in Hi-Fi stereo quality
• Easy to use with full drag & drop support
• Groove Generator - digital drum machine for
creating your own beat patterns
• Hyper Generator - synthesizer with filter, echo and
distortion effects
• Extensive FX Studio for editing samples
• Time Stretcher for altering the tempo of samples
without changing the pitch
• Equalizer, Booster and audio mixer for each track
• Vocoder - give your samples a synthesized effect
• Voice Generator - create your own robot voices and
cool vocal FX samples
• Direct access to more samples in the eJay Online
Sound Archive
• Record your own samples and voices using a
microphone (full duplex recording)
• Import samples in MP3 or WAV format
• Export your mix as a WAV file
• Music Animator - with Save to Mix and AVI video
file export


Touch It Food KS1-16+


Price: £32.98 (Including: VAT at 17.5%)

Ideal for all ages including older users with SEN, Touch It is a series that helps develop co-ordination and motor skills.

If the terminology around SEN teaching is far ahead of the understanding, your school will benefit from this down-to-earth 52pp book that offers a concise and easy-to-read guide to the main syndromes and conditions affecting children with special needs in mainstream schools. It offers:
• A brief introduction to a range of conditions including possible causes and prevalence
• An explanation of the main challenges facing the child in the classroom
• A range of practical strategies to adopt
• Where appropriate, an example of an actual IEP is included.
There’s also a list of useful contacts and web addresses making this a truly invaluable resource for the specialist and non-specialist alike.

Written by Sally McKeown an education officer for lifelong learning and special needs at BECTa. This book discusses how teachers still find it difficult to make effective use of ICT, but the benefits of computer technology for children with communication problems and other special needs are clear. By reviewing both hardware and software applications this book acts as a valuable reference to teacher, special needs assistants and carers.

Areas covered include
• How to access SEN information on the internet
• Generating and storing IEP`s electronically
• Equipment and software for children with particular problems` e.g. visual or hearing impairments, dyslexia and autism
• Using software to improve language development and self-esteem
• Solving access problems
• Helping children with behaviour problems through ICT

How To Detect And Manage Dyslexia is an essential reference book for Special Educational Needs co-ordinators, specialist and non-specialist teachers, parents and all others involved in helping students develop strategies to deal with the difficulties involved with dyslexia.
Philomena Ott draws on her 25 years experience in this field to answer the most frequently asked questions

This concise text helps the reader to understand why dyslexics can find maths difficult and offers practical ideas for supporting them most effectively.
It explains which areas of Maths dyslexics tend to have particular difficulty with, assesses current teaching philosophies and methods, describes a framework of general learning principles that allow dyslexics to make progress in maths and outlines a number of specific and effective teaching recommendations.
The book helps teachers at primary and secondary levels to better understand the maths performance of dyslexics and gives them an overview of the ways in which dyslexics can best be supported in all aspects of maths learning.

This concise text helps the reader to understand why dyslexics can find English difficult and offers practical ideas for supporting them most effectively.
The book focuses on secondary levels, but many of the strategies can be applied to both younger children and students in further and higher education.

This book provides the class teacher with a straightforward introduction to dyslexia. The authors highlight methods of identification of dyslexia within the classroom context and provide examples of how dyslexia can be dealt with by the class teacher. There are sections on learning styles and thinking skills as well as on policy and provision. Whilst the emphasis is on supporting the dyslexic student in the classroom context, there are also sections on staff development and a brief introduction to current research into the background of dyslexia.

Content covers
• Purpose of the book; what is dyslexia?
• Identification and assessment
• Teaching and learning
• Staff development

Every dyslexic student has different difficulties and needs. This practical guide to secondary school life addresses the full range of issues, from building literacy to study skills and the use of computers.

Ranging from developing fine and gross motor skills to preparing children for their next transition, the ideas in this book will prove invaluable to those working with children who have dyspraxia or DCD. Contains 128 pages.

The Talking Photo Album is a simple, inexpensive, easy-to-use device that has many potential uses for adults and children who need augmentative communication. It is really easy to set up and use.
You can record four minutes of speech, 10 seconds at a time, in any language of your choice. You can use photos, book cut-outs, symbols, drawings, Xeroxes, newspaper clippings, or text on each of its 24 pages. You can use it for instructions, to tell stories, to record autobiographical information, to facilitate daily conversation, to help order in restaurants, to facilitate memory and for scores of other purposes.

With Clicker, children can write with whole words, phrases and pictures by clicking on cells in the Clicker Grid. By using sets of linked grids, pupils can have access to an unlimited number of words and pictures that can provide a framework or scaffolding for their writing. As well as simple documents, children can create multimedia talking books using pictures, sounds and even video.
Clicker 5 is the latest version and offers great new features including almost human UK English speech and new pop up grid, direct access to LearningGrids.com as well as a completely new graphics library. All existing add-ons for Clicker will work with the new version, and new resources will be developed just for Clicker 5.
Please note a copy of the Mac version of Clicker 5 will cost £10 -this is a for the purchase of a replacement CD if you already have the Windows version. The cost of a new Mac version of Clicker 5 will be as shown in the product caption shown.

Clicker Paint is an exciting new program that fully integrates with Clicker 5 and works as a powerful stand-alone program as well. Clicker Paint has been designed as an educational tool, incorporating unique and innovative features that add new dimensions to classroom creativity.

Clicker Paint works seamlessly within Clicker, enabling pupils to illustrate their writing and engage in a range of new learning activities. A button on the Clicker Grid opens Clicker Paint as a pop-up that provides the tools and canvas for you to compose your picture. When you close the pop-up, the picture automatically transfers to your Clicker Grid!

Clicker Paint is incredibly pupil-friendly, yet includes many powerful features that will motivate children of all abilities, whether you are working within Clicker or using it as a stand-alone program. In addition to using the child-friendly painting tools to illustrate their stories, pupils can also engage in a range of activities that address specific learning objectives.

With Clicker Paint, new Clicker activities and templates are supplied to get you started right away. The activities are ready to use, yet can be very easily modified for particular lessons. The templates make it easy for your pupils to create talking books with their own illustrations, and for you to create new activities

The all singing all dancing addition to Clicker with over 100 original animations and over 500 ready-made grids, the graphics will animate both in the Clicker grid and in Clicker Writer!
Bringing the Clicker Talking Books and Multimedia presentations to life, these animations can be used to great effect in the classroom, initially as a writing support but also to enhance classroom based work on verbs

Using colourful animated screens with music and sounds, Picture Builder attracts and holds the attention of users and is suitable for teenage and older users as well as early years pupils and the profoundly disabled. Activities aim to develop access and switch skills, using 'cause and effect' work as well as making choices and encouraging language and communication work.
Activities can be accessed using switch, mouse, keyboard or voice input and include:


Jigsaw maker
Pattern generator
Puzzle slider
Reveal and knock out
Noisy colouring
Image builder

This CD-ROM allows you to import files from digital pictures and scanned images, as well as offering a vast bank of images for you to choose from. It is fully configurable for the individual user and with printable user records available. It is available in dual format and suitable for one, two or multi switches, working with space bar, mouse-click and touch-screen.

This program is designed to support those who have not yet enjoyed success in mastering awkward spellings. It is aimed at beginning and developing readers aged 7 plus, learners with specific learning difficulties including dyslexia, and those who may find using mnemonics a useful tool for memorising important information.
Visual animations provide motivating memory aids that are reinforced with the auditory production of the spelling. Pupils practise the spelling and are encouraged to make, record, draw and print their own mnemonic.
Clip art, teaching suggestions, teacher records and an accompanying set of cards are also included.

This colourful set includes nouns (green), verbs (red), adjectives (blue), pronouns (yellow), prepositions (purple) and punctuation, articles, conjunctions and possessive pronouns (black).
The words are colour-coded to show children how each word in a sentence has an important and different job:
• Start with a simple sentence:
'I love my silly old dog'
• Build new sentences by changing one grammatical structure a a time: 'I/You love my noisy/silly/ little old elephant/dog/ teacher!'
Strengthen early reading skills by grouping related words and finding opposites.
Size: 25mm high

Includes all NLS Framework keywords recommended for early literacy, plus extra nouns, adjectives and conjunctions for enrichment of vocabulary.
Contents: 72 word tiles, 17 punctuation tiles and extra blank tiles
Size: 23mm high***Set of 89 plus blanks

Includes sightwords recommended for Years 1 and 2 with basic punctuation.
Contents: 184 word tiles and 20 punctuation tiles
Size: 23mm hi Set of 204

Albert Mouse lives in a house consisting of eight rooms and a spacious mousehole. He shares it with a family and a cat. The program allows children to explore Albert`s house, play hide-and-seek and to rescue Albert from the ferocious cat. Includes graphics and animations that children will enjoy.
The program generates group activity and thereby the skills of co-operation and consultation.
The disc version includes high resolution graphics and spoken text.

Key features
• Follow the arrows to explore Albert`s House.
• Click on any subject to see and hear what it is
• Many items can be investigated behind, beneath, inside, etc
• The clocks display the current time and speak the time
• Hide and Seek game with hot/cold bar
• Save Albert game with two levels of difficulty
• Encourages language development
• Logical thinking
• An understanding of direction and position, while exploring a virtual house

Features & Benefits
LDA Language Cards Interactive – Nouns is a CD-ROM developed by Sherston in conjunction with LDA to help pupils develop their basic language skills.
The three activities build and consolidate a strong vocabulary through the use of a comprehensive collection of high quality and colourful photographs. This program has been carefully designed to support users with special educational needs and all the activities are switch accessible.



Contents
Clear and simple interface and images
Full speech support throughout
Mouse or switch mode
Optional animated rewards
Speech or text-only facility
Individual user settings
Whiteboard compatible

Eye Track contains a range of fun and motivational activities to support learners experiencing difficulty with visual perception.
Developed by occupational thrapists and a specialist teacher, this resource covers a wide range of visual concepts, including;
Discrimination, Memory, Sequential Memory, Spatial Relationships, Form Consistency, Figure Ground, and Closure Perception. The activities in Eye Track target each of these in a progressive, unique and fun way that can be both teacher-led or child directed.

Spell Track is a new CD-ROM that improves spelling, which helps pupils of all ages with specific learning difficulties, such as dyslexia, to spell with confidence, consistency and accuracy.

Nominated for the 2005 New Statesman's "Bright Sparks" educational awards.
Spell Track can be customised through a variety of options, such as changing contrast backgrounds settings and work display times and choosing words from the National Literacy Strategy and high frequency work lists.

You can also create and upload your own words and sentences for learners to practice.

Word Track is an easy-to-use CD-ROM, which helps pupils improve their ability to memorise and hence to learn. It is ideal for all learners with specific learning difficulties, who have particular problems with memorising spellings.

The program consists of 180 sentences of increasing phonic complexity. It provides full audio support and configurable display options.
Word Track activities:

reinforce correct spellings of words in the context of sentences
encourage users to check each phoneme
support the reading and spelling of high frequency words
incorporate practising spellings by ‘look, say, remember, type, check’ strategies
builds keyboard skills
support the correct use of punctuation and grammatical awareness

Idiom Track CD-ROM and the accompanying set of flashcards is aimed at learners aged 9 years and up and all those who may have difficulties associated with autistic spectrum disorders, dyslexia and semantic/pragmatic disorders.
Idiom Track is particularly well suited for use with those learning English as a Second Language (TEFL/TESL).
Engaging, fun graphics illustrate the literal and real meaning of each idiom, grouped within categories such as animals, food and drink, colour, parts of the body and so on. Activities to further practice and reinforce the meanings of idioms gradually build up the users’ understanding and confidence in the social skills of communication (what does it mean? complete the idiom, choose the real meaning, choose the correct idiom).

Some learners will need the support of more formal intervention to reach an acceptable level of understanding – Idiom Track enables this.

A vital option that has been included is the ability to import your own digital images to illustrate real meanings of particular idioms – thus facilitating one of the most useful ways of teaching idioms.

Idiom Track is a starting point for teaching idioms – curriculum linked suggestions encourage working towards further discussion, exploration and collection of a bank of idioms. Dual format and switch accessible, Idiom Track is supported by a range of accessibility options, clip art and user records – providing a fantastic, unique resource for a wide range of users.

A fun, stand-alone CD, which provides an engaging environment for users to practise areas of phonemic weakness, and helps to increase confidence in this essential skill for fluent reading and spelling.
The activities focus on developing phonemic awareness, including the ability to attend to, identify and manipulate the sounds that are representative of graphemes in the English language. Many of the activities on the CD will be familiar to those working within the NLSword level framework. Suitable for KS1 and 2 pupils, it is also ideal for older learners who are experiencing specific phonological difficulties. The CD is accompanied by a Phoneme Workbook, which is full of photocopiable extension activities.