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.

The Nessy Learning Programme
Nessy is a complete learning programme for dyslexics from age 5-16. 120 easy-to-follow lessons cover up to 10 years of school. The clear, phonic-based structure includes printable card games, activity sheets, mnemonics and computer games. Children love recording their own words to play with the computer games.Nessy is simple to use for parents, classroo assistants and teachers. The quality graphics and game-driven approach make learning fun and motivating. Successful trials have shown Nessy helps to rebuild self-confidence and inmprove literacy skills.

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.

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.

Many children, especially those with dyslexia, have difficulty reading black text on a white background. These coloured rulers have been an enormous help to many with close-reading difficulties, children say the change in colour 'stops the words moving about', and 'makes the letters clearer.' Cheaper and more discreet than tinted lenses, these rulers come in five colours so each child can find which works best. Ideal for scotopic sensitivity syndrome and related disorders. 10 pack.

Description: Imaginative and challenging activities to help children develop hand-eye co-ordination, motor skills and scissor control. The varied activities introduce and extend a wide range of cutting skills in a fun and original way. Contains 26 A4 pages.

Visual-spatial and dyslexic learners can have great difficulty remembering digits and letters, but find no problem in creating permanent visual memories of quite complex shapes and colours, or sequences of pictures on a page. By playing to the learner`s strengths, this new software tags digits to a shape that children will remember for each sum. This easy to use system can be used for all ability learners, but especially benefits those who have a weakness for remembering digits that are seen or heard. All 100 number facts are included in the CD but focus is given to the 36 number facts that are neither commutative nor part of the 1 or 10 times table. These 36 are highlighted for ease of use when they are being studied.
KEY FACTS

Multiplication pads provide visual-spatial learners with support to learn their times tables by presenting each table fact as an 'image'
A central screen describes the commutative nature of multiplication and 10 and 1 times tables makes learning table facts manageable for all abilities.
Using the whiteboard with children on the floor encourages looking upwards thus helping children's right-brained learning and playing to their strengths.
Typography, muted background colours and images support dyslexic and dyscalculiac children.
Each pack includes a fully networkable CD-ROM (with permanent site licence) and a 64-page Teacher's Book with supporting activities for pupils and guidance for teachers.

200 teaching activities and 40 games are included in this easy to use toolkit. It covers early number work with numbers under 10, basic calculations with numbers above 10, place value, times tables, multiplication and division. The activities and games can be used with individuals or small groups and comes with a CD containing printable resources. 160 A4 pages.

A powerful literacy program to assist children at word level who are struggling with reading and writing. Contains carefully graded reading and spelling activities set within five exciting game environments. Designed to appeal to children who are at NC Reading Levels 1 and 2c.
The activities are designed specifically for struggling readers. Consists of graded reading and spelling activities based on the Catch Up High Frequency Word Lists, rimes, initial digraphs, picture-cued nouns and story words. Included are: picture and word rhyme matching, onset and rime, look/listen, cover, write, check spelling, word and sentence sequencing and speed spelling. Set in five appealing games with vivid appealling graphics. From Escape from Spooky Castle through to Rally Racing, research has shown that this software can produce high motivation and concentration levels, sustained periods of independent practice and consolidation and improved reading and spelling of high frequency words

A powerful literacy program to assist children at word level who are struggling with reading and writing. Contains carefully graded reading and spelling activities set within five exciting game environments. Designed to appeal to children who are at NC Reading Levels 1 and 2c.
The activities are designed specifically for struggling readers. Consists of graded reading and spelling activities based on the Catch Up High Frequency Word Lists, rimes, initial digraphs, picture-cued nouns and story words. Included are: picture and word rhyme matching, onset and rime, look/listen, cover, write, check spelling, word and sentence sequencing and speed spelling. Set in five appealing games with vivid appealling graphics. From Escape from Spooky Castle through to Rally Racing, research has shown that this software can produce high motivation and concentration levels, sustained periods of independent practice and consolidation and improved reading and spelling of high frequency words

Catch Up 2 provides graded reading, spelling and comprehension exercises for children aged 6 to 11 at NC reading levels 2C-3C.
Building on the skills practiced in first CD Catch Up 2 comprises 22 multimedia learning activities in five exciting worlds. Land of the Dinosaurs - (consonant clusters), The Lost City - (short/long vowel phonemes), Planet Fizz - (high frequency words). The Swamp and The Tomb (both comprehension).

Catch Up 2 provides graded reading, spelling and comprehension exercises for children aged 6 to 11 at NC reading levels 2C-3C.
Building on the skills practiced in first CD Catch Up 2 comprises 22 multimedia learning activities in five exciting worlds. Land of the Dinosaurs - (consonant clusters), The Lost City - (short/long vowel phonemes), Planet Fizz - (high frequency words). The Swamp and The Tomb (both comprehension

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
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Motor Skills United develops the core skills which underpin all areas of motor development (not simply gross and fine motor skills) which, in turn, helps to promote the skills required to boost learning.

This easy-to-use programme is particularly effective with children who have developmental co-ordination disorders (dyspraxia). There are 70 large and 70 small room activities, 20 warm ups and 20 cool downs. The cards are organised into colours for each skill base:

Hand/Eye Co-ordination
Proprioception, Kinaesthesia and Body Awareness
Eye Tracking
Bi-lateral Integration and Crossing the Midline
Core Stability and Balance
Spatial Awareness
Rhythm, Auditory/Visual Awareness Sequencing
Created by Stockport County Council Learning Support Service, feedback from teachers, parents and pupils taking part in the pilot scheme has been amazingly positive!

Aims of the Programme:

To improve balance
To improve co-ordination
To improve confidence
To improve self-esteem
To improve handwriting
To improve fine motor skills
To improve organisational skills

HelpiJoy Joystick Mouse ideal for those with poor dexterity, tremors or RSI.

The robust Joystick Mouse uses a joystick interface to control the mouse with four mouse click function buttons situated on the unit: Left Click, Right Click, Double Click and Drag Lock.

There is also a 9-pin connector allowing the user to connect other input switches/sensors to control the directional movement of the mouse pointer. The Joystick Mouse comes with a USB connection and is Plug and Play. No software drivers are required.

Features:
External Button Inputs
External Direction Inputs
Ideal for RSI, motor skill difficulties and similar
Four Buttons
USB Connection

Hands free ergonomic mouse and keyboard solution.

A hands-free mouse alternative that lets you have complete control of a computer using head or finger motion.

Smart-NAV 4 allows for a completely hands free method of navigating a computer. Designed to complement the natural head motion you already perform when looking around, moving your head less than a quarter inch easily maneuvers the cursor across your entire screen.

There are two version of SmartNav - AT is for people who cannot use their hands, the EG is for people suffering from wrist strain or who wish to increase their computer productivity/speed.

Version 4 now offers a sleek aluminum case, three times the resolution, resulting in more precise tracking and improved light filtering.

SmartNav 4 AT
A total hands-free mouse alternative for people with ALS, spinal cord injuries such as quadriplegia, muscular dystrophy, and other special needs. Ideal solution for Assistive Technology applications as it provides everything needed to have complete control of your computer without the use of your hands. The virtual keyboard allows you to type on your computer screen.

SmartNav AT Features:
Complete Computer Control
Natural Motion
Dwell Clicking
Virtual Keyboard
Switch Input

SmartNav 4 EG
Ideal for ergonomic relief and prevention of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Repetitive Strain Injury, the SmartNav 4 EG makes using a computer what it should be: useful and convenient. By eliminating the need for a mouse with the built-in switch input, SmartNav EG is the best solution for wrist strain related problems.

SmartNav EG Features:
True Ergonomic Relief
Use Your Head, Spare Your Hands
Natural Motion
Switch Input

Both Feature;
Totally hands free
Control by moving head
External switch input sockets
Advanced user defined settings
Multiple profiles
Y-Cable included for two external switches
USB extension cable included
Dots for forehead control
Rings for finger control

Neo is easy to use, lightweight and affordable. This non-rechargeable version has 700 hours or more of operation with just 3AA Alkaline batteries, and a full sized keyboard. Instant on/off and auto-save eliminates startup delays and accidental data loss. With 2MB of memory it has twice the memory of the AlphaSmart 3000 and will save an unlimited amount of files. Includes Kaz (typing tutor) applet, a Spell-Checker and Thesaurus with user dictionary for adding words. Find/replace, word count, Spanish-English word look up and calculator are also included. Will hold multiple Smart Applets. Also includes a USB cable to connect to the PC/MAC.
The large screen and new font technology, display up to twice as much text as the AlphaSmart 3000. The default font used is in the cursive style. Font size can be changed, files can be named and saved

Files can be beamed easily from Neo to Neo, Neo to AlphaSmart 3000, Neo to Dana and vice versa.

This colourful addictive board game is great for helping to overcome b/d reversal problems. Deebees is a fun, multisensory resource designed to help your students break through the b/d barrier.

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.

Many children on the autistic spectrum can struggle with the complexities of the school day. Visual timetables can be used to break an activity down into steps giving children a sense of structure to their day and making them feel secure. The software contains visual prompts to help children know what area of the curriculum they will be studying, what they will need to get their work done and what the social organisation of the class will be.

Product code: SD08186

A wooden, beautifully crafted magnetic number board. Learn number recognition and counting skills whilst developing fine motor skills. Glide the balls into the correct area with the attached pen. Size 29.5 x 29.5cm.

A wooden beautifully designed fine motor skills board that can be used to help develop spacial relations, coordination and concentration. The coloured balls can be moved using the magnetic pen. Size 29.5 x 29.5.

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 comprehensive package designed to support children from Reception to KS2 who move and learn differently. Smart Moves offers a unique profiling tool to identify and target specific gross motor skills together with a extensive selection of PE curriculum-based activities to meet individual needs. Includes a Guide to the programme, Resources CD, Movement Abilities Profile (MAP) Screening Guidance and Activity Bank.

Special

This guide addresses the key problem areas of autism- relationships, communication and flexibility of thought and behaviour - and offers practical guidance on how these might be avoided or overcome both in the home and school.

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 CD has 23 activities based around the 100 square, covering more than, less than, counting in 2s, 5s, 10s, number bonds in 10s and doubling. Each of the activities consists of a graded sequence of 20 to 40 simply presented multiple-choice questions. Correct answers result in a short animated sequence with music and spoken reinforcement while a monkey story game on each CD adds to the motivation. Full speech support and switch access options provide access to learning by almost all students and simple performance reporting allows you to record student progress

This CD has 21 graded activities covering comparison of quantity, counting sets of objects, counting on (rote counting), counting back, numeral recognition and matching sets to numerals. Maps directly to the Foundation Stage targets and P-Level descriptors. Each of the activities consists of a graded sequence of 20 to 40 simply presented multiple-choice questions. Correct answers result in a short animated sequence with music and spoken reinforcement while a monkey story game on each CD adds to the motivation. Full speech support and switch access options provide access to learning by almost all students and simple performance reporting allows you to record student progress.

23 graded activities covering odd one out sets, counting sets, counting on (rote counting), numeral recognition, more than, less than and simple addition up to 10. Each of the activities consists of a graded sequence of 20 to 40 simply presented multiple-choice questions. Correct answers result in a short animated sequence with music and spoken reinforcement while a monkey story game on each CD adds to the motivation. Full speech support and switch access options provide access to learning by almost all students and simple performance reporting allows you to record student progress.

Includes 21 activities covering matching and recognition of geometric 2D and 3D shapes sequencing shapes, counting sides, nets, weight, length, capacity, and planes and symmetry. Directly supports all areas of the NNS at KS1. Each of the activities consists of a graded sequence of 20 to 40 simply presented multiple-choice questions. Correct answers result in a short animated sequence with music and spoken reinforcement while a monkey story game on each CD adds to the motivation. Full speech support and switch access options provide access to learning by almost all students and simple performance reporting allows you to record student progress.

This CD includes a set of 37 activities on learning to tell the time, from simple matching tasks, up to time calculations in units of 5 minutes with full speech support for non-readers.
Ideal for use as a teaching aid or an assessment tool as student`s performance is recorded. With clear and consistent presentation, this is suitable for use on interactive whiteboards and has switch access support for learners with disabilities.

Description
ReacTickles provides an engaging, accessible computer environment for spontaneous imaginative play and learning, in which even the most anxious autistic individuals may relax and communicate.

Started as an Internet based research project Reactive Colours aims to provide a software interface through which individuals with autistic spectrum differences and learning disabilities can be encouraged to use computers, and through which they can develop mouse, keyboard, programming and screen skills.

The creativity box resources are structured to provide an easy to use, flexible guide to integrating the software into the curriculum in a manner that is rewarding and fun.

Features
Use with an interactive whiteboard, any desktop or laptop computer, mouse, keyboard, microphone and other adaptive devices.
The design of ReacTickles maximises on the physical rather than the cognitive aspects of computation, which are developmentally appropriate for most autistic children.
The ReacTickles interface can be preset to accomodate the unique sensory need of people on the autistic spectrum.
The ReacTickles Creativity Box resources are structured to provide an easy to use, flexible guide to integrating the software into the curriculum in a manner that is rewarding and fun.
Benefits
The playful ReacTickles focus on improvisational activity rather than a set of predetermined routines that lead to a preset goal.
Confidence is gained through the opportunity to repeat actions, with each exploration offering a new and unique visual or auditory reward.
Inspired by real world objects that children love to manipulate, Slinkies, lava lamps, spinning tops and coins, the ReacTickles environment offers a safe place to experience dynamic interaction where players freely explore abstract shapes and create rhythmic responses with their fingers and bodies without judgement or fear.
ReacTickles are highly motivating and have been shown to help children develop concentration and attention skills, as well as encouraging sharing and imaginative play

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

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

Nine simple but absorbing activities featuring colourful animated screens exploring music and sound. Children click to animate the `things` and generate a wide spectrum of musical effects and rhythms, all based on cause and effect to encourage further experimentation and creative play.
The activities develop valuable early learning skills such as matching, mark-making and pattern recognition - plus provide plenty of opportunities for communication and language work.

Noisy Things is ideal for SEN learners of any age. Activities can be accessed in a variety of ways, including mouse click, space bar, interactive whiteboard or touch screen. The software includes full switch access. Free from any text and spoken instructions.

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

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.

The set of 1400 signs offers immense potential for creating tailor made materials to suit individual needs and stimulate learning - either with signs alone, or with symbols, finger spelling and text to link literacy.
It comes with a clear guide book with discussion on supporting signers and ideas for creating resources, especially in Writing with Symbols 2000 or Communicate: In Print.
There are also a number of example files that you can use straight in Writing with Symbols. The files are in emf format, which you can also use in other programs such as MS WORD and DTP programs.
The accompanying dictionary contains line drawings of all signs linked to key words and descriptions of how to form signs.

Key features
1400+ signs (line drawing and full colour)
Immense potential for creating `tailor-made` materials
Stimulate learning with signs, symbols, finger spelling and/or text to link to literacy
Comprehensive Guide Book
Signs and Ideas Glossary

Allows you to make professional looking communication displays in minutes in either black and white or in colour. Symbols can be any size with any spacing, and you can add your own. The symbols are translated into 10 languages and may be found and printed in any of these making it easy to build a communication board without being able to speak the language.
Includes a range of pre-made grids for making communication aids and a tutorial CD explaining how to set up and use your Boardmaker. x
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Key features
• Make a professional communication display in minutes
• Quickly find pictures and paste them into your display
• Add your own pictures
• Create pictures or modify symbols

Many children struggle to articulate how they feel to their peers and to adults at school. These communication barriers can escalate and cause big problems, or just make a child feel isolated and alone.

This set of cards is a simple way to help these children communicate the basic emotions and needs they may face in any school day.

Beautifully illustrated with a simple, yet appealing style, the 10 cards will help you when working with children on the autistic spectrum, those who are shy or just going through a difficult time.

The cards are laminated and hole punched on a ring. They work well with the key ring shown so that they are easily accessible and harder to lose!

Pack of 6.

WordRead will read any text in a human quality voice. This product version ships with British English RealSpeak female Voice.


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“WordRead” will read any text in a human quality voice from word processors, e-mail software, certain PDF files and internet browsers.
WordRead helps you to ensure accuracy of any Word document on your computer. You can check a newly-created document in seconds, or open up a previous file and carry out a proof read.

WordRead uses the highly-sophisticated RealspeakTM text-to-speech software which provides human voice reading of your written documents. And, with "WordRead" offering more than 15 RealSpeak languages to choose from for text readback, it provides great flexibility for proofing, reading and learning.

You can also generate audio (wav) files to listen to on your portable audio player or playback on your PC.

Although aimed primarily at Dyslexic undergraduates, Wordswork is also appropriate for students in upper secondary, tertiary and further education and will be of benefit to dyslexic adults who want to improve skills before starting out on formal study.
The multi-sensory approaches used are sophisticated yet amusing. The intention is not to teach basic reading skills, but all printed screens are accompanied by `voiceovers`, which reduce the need for excessive reading.

Topics covered include Essay Writing, Exam Revision, Grammar, Handwriting, Memory, Notetaking, Oral Presentation, Punctuation, Reading, Spelling, Time Management and Vocabulary Building.
The program includes many exercises to involve users in interactive learning.


Key features
• Essay writing
• Exam revision
• Grammar
• Handwriting
• Memory
• Note taking
• Oral presentation
• Punctuation
• Reading
• Spelling
• Time management
• Vocabulary building

Communicate: SymWriter provides the perfect tool for simple word and symbol processing for emergent writers. It enables users to see the meaning of words as they write. The symbols appear automatically in a side panel, illustrating the word just typed or chosen. Non-keyboard users can write in very flexible ways by selecting from grids and buttons. The program comes with over 8,000 Widgit Literacy Symbols, in colour and black & white. You can also drop pictures on to the page using the symbol browser. Use any of the 1,500 Widgit Pictures (clip art and photographs) supplied with the program or access images from anywhere on your computer.
SymWriter makes writing easier with the aid of grids and buttons. These can be created in text, text & symbol or symbol formats giving support to those who cannot write text but that can write using symbols, and text writers with a limited vocabulary. Position grids and buttons wherever you like, ready to send to the document or carry out actions. You can use the ready-made function buttons or design your own. You can even add backgrounds to buttons and grids.
Speech feedback can be used to speak individual letters, words and sentences as they are created, or to hear whole documents read back. The pictorial spell checker helps users understand the meaning of selected words by illustrating them with symbols, whether or not you are using symbols in the finished document. x
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Designed to provide a complete adult literacy course and to help students develop the full range of communication skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking.
The software uses multimedia technology to involve and motivate students. All text displayed can be read out to you at the press of a button, video clips help to illustrate key points and a library of photographs is provided to enrich student`s documents.
This program works on the premise that `beginning readers are not beginning thinkers` and draws upon adult subject matter such as prisoners rights, infertility etc. There is the option to print out dozens of ready-made worksheets, and printouts of work can be used as evidence towards standards-based qualifications. Content can be easily adapted to suit your own needs (eg special needs, vocational training, English as a second language etc) using the Content Builder.

Think About! 1 has been developed with the older, more reluctant reader in mind as well as those with specific learning difficulties (including dyslexia).
Think About! 1 aims to:

Improve listening skills
Develop levels of understanding, inviting the user to demonstrate levels of literal, inferential and evaluative comprehension
Promote thought, discussion and debate
Develop concentration and memory skills
Provide context which is motivating, different and age appropriate.

Scenes in the life of Jasmine and Harry are shown in various settings – at the recycling centre, gardening, camping, in the supermarket, at the library, fishing, skateboarding. The user is encouraged to watch the text free animations and then answer questions on the story before working on to the paper based materials away from the computer.

Computer–based activities following the animations include:

A facility to record your own version of the dialogue
A match the sentence to the picture exercise
True or false statements
Sequencing
Find the right word
Do you remember? activity

Full accessibility options, clip art and records are available via teacher settings, while the accompanying photocopiable workbook provides full and simplified text of the stories together with questions for further comprehension work.

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.

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

Ideal for all ages including older users with SEN, Touch It is a series that helps develop co-ordination and motor skills.
The software uses real photographs throughout and teachers can amend the following features to suit individual needs: Size of Object; Choice of Pointers; Length of Game; Score and Timing; Direction and Speed of Object; Background Colour.

Scare yourself silly on the Ghost Train, try your hand at the Coconut Shy and Darts stall or win some dancing fish on the Hoopla. In the Ferris Wheel the users has to touch the seats to make the riders jump on the big wheel also includes colour and number matching educational games.

NOT XP COMPATIBLE

This software supports teaching touch screen (or whiteboard) skills at all levels. This collection helps to teach a progression of touch screen skills from basic cause and effect through sequencing, gross/fine targeting and simple decision-making. It includes a handy booklet of teaching ideas and recording sheets.
The Collection Includes:
Big Bang - Provides engaging activities at a very early `whole hand` cause and effect level. Good for co-active (modelling hand movements) work.
SwitchIt! Pictures - Create images by completing simple sequences. Lots of opportunity for interaction and discussion.
Touch Balloons - Moving on from `whole hand` work, this program introduces a range of simple, progressive targeting activities. Touch the balloons to pop them.
IT Mouse Skills - Helps develop and refine targeting skills through a series of progressive activities.
ChooseIt! Maker - Extends the decision-making concept with engaging, challenging activities. You can also create your own.
Choose and Tell: Nursery Rhymes - Introduces simple decision making activities that support emergent literacy skills. x

Features
Capture natural hand written text and hand drawn images remotely from a computer.
Record up to 100 A4 pages of text or drawings between downloads.
Transfer captured text or drawings to the computer via an easy to use USB docking station.
Upload hand written text directly into Microsoft Word, Outlook or Outlook Express.
Come complete with a digital paper starter pack including an A4 spiral note book and Post-It note lets, which can also be purchased separately.
Includes rechargeable battery (charged either via USB or the supplied AC power adapter).
Also includes a trial version of hand writing recognition software.
Automatic update of annotations and additions to digital copies of documents previously downloaded to the computer,
Benefits
Provides a quick and easy way for teachers and pupils to capture hand written notes.
Ideal for use on field trips, for capturing notes and drawings whilst remote from a computer.
Enable pupils to use their own illustrations in digital stories, multimedia projects and e-mails.
Extend access to and reduce bottlenecks at the classroom or lab computers, by capturing pupils written work digitally before moving to the computer.

Description
An exciting and unique new way for pupils and teachers to explore the meaning of words and the English Language as a whole, through a visual and easily interpreted representation. Simply enter a word, and an animated diagram of all similar meaning words is created, which can be explored dynamically.

This new version includes spell checker/ word suggestion, text-to-speech (requires internet connection) and ability to search the web.

Includes free Teacher's Guide.

Features
Looking up a word creates a webbed diagram with your word in the centre of the display, connected to related words and meanings.
Show parts of speech and turn these on and off to show only adjectives for example.
Word webs can be displayed in either 2 or 3 dimensional representation (now defaults to 2D).
Includes a comprehensive word list containing semantic relationships and definitions.
Copy, paste words from other applications, and drag a related word back into your original Word document.
Print out high resolution copies of the diagrams with and without definitions.
Differentiated access tailored according to the user's ability and needs.
Includes guided tour and help tips.
New: Spell checker/ word suggestion
New: Text-to-speech (require internet connection).
New: search the web.
Benefits
Rapid access to the features and results, motivating students.
Enables students to explore words in a more beneficial and in-depth way than via a traditional book based dictionary.
Differentiated access to the technology tailored according to the users ability and needs.
The Visual Thesaurus shows more than just similar words. It shows antonyms, 'type of' relationships, 'pertains to' relationships, and more.
Allows for easy and seamless integration with existing software programs used within the classroom, and enables students to share their findings easily with others.

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.

Use creative role-play, picture making, storyboarding and animation to help students express, explore and think about their experiences of school.
This title, produced in association with Kent LEA, contains a good variety of backgrounds and props, but the character set is restricted to generic, coloured, 3D wooden stick figures in a wide range of poses - students can add facial expressions if they wish. Use these resources to explore experiences, choices and emotions in an environment that socially-impaired students find unintimidating.

Pre-made activities cover classroom behaviour, teachers` use of language, organisation skills, dealing with break and lunch times, journeys to and from school and handling disruptions to the normal routine such as fire drills or room changes. Students are encouraged to discuss their own experiences, explore how their choices influence the situation they are in and how they might affect the outcome.

Total assistance for dyslexia

The textHELP Gold edition is the one stop solution for reading and writing needs in a truly inclusive setting using the standard Windows environments. It allows those at work or students to work independently in an inclusive environment ensuring they 'keep up' with their peers.

Read and Write Gold 8.1 is now compatible with Microsoft Vista. New features include a new Fact Mapper mind mapping utility and many other improvements to the main components. Installation is now easier – there is no need to uninstall from previous versions.

Now there is no need to learn a whole new way of creating and editing text - just use the word processor you have always used. Read & Write Gold edition will also read PDF documents!

Toolbar – the toolbar is now more user friendly and flexible - there is a choice of toolbars with many new icons now docking to sides or top.

Word Prediction – the Core prediction dictionary has been enlarged and the Custom dictionary is easier to use.

Scanning - scan any text document or saved image into MS Word or any other major word processor. Once scanned, the text may be read aloud in any one of five display/audible methods ensuring the user has the perfect listening and learning experience. It now supports high speed scanners with document feeders, and two sided (Duplex) scanning.

Speech Maker – now with better quality voices, faster and easier to use! Convert your text to MP3, WMA or WAV audio files and listen to your text on the move with portable personal devices. Files are quickly saved using your last saved settings.

Fact Folder – NEW - output to web and Fact Mapper - a study or research tool for planning and organizing thoughts and ideas; capture text from any application or the internet, classify it, attach pictures, bibliography information, and record its source. This is excellent for revision.

Fact Mapper – NEW – the new Fact Mapper utility can be used with Fact Folder or independently allowing the user to brainstorm, revise, outline and output to web. Fact Mapping has been shown to help those with LD achieve higher exam grades.

Teacher Toolkit – allows teachers to add groups and import users using an Active Directory.

Scientific Calculator - an on-screen talking calculator provides all the main functions of a scientific calculator with a spoken audit trail and multiple display memory locations.

Pronunciation Tutor – Unique - breaks words into syllables, read out by the on screen moving mouth. Pronunciation is enhanced by use of the International Phonetic Alphabet and phoneme information.

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.