Operating System: Windows Pick & Choose is a multipurpose age ap- propriate software program. A choice but- ton is pressed by using switches, a touch window, or a mouse click.When a choice button is pressed, a reward is presented as either a picture, text, music file, sound effect, or movie clip. Pictello AssistiveWare Price: $19.99 Special Skill: basic living skills, communication, early childhood, language development, scanning, single switch, multi switch, speech output, authoring system Disability: cognitive, learning, physical, speech Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool, elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: iOS (Apple) Pictello offers a simple way to create talk- ing books and social stories on your iPad and iPhone. Each page in a Pictello story can contain a picture or short video clip, text, and a recorded sound or can be read aloud using over 100 natural sounding Text to Speech voices.
If you or someone you know has physical difficulty using the mouse, try Pointing Wizard. Follow the steps in the Pointing Wizard, and it will determine if there are changes to the Windows mouse settings that may make it faster and easier to use the mouse.With your approval, it activates those changes for you.Works for trackballs, trackpads and other pointing devices, too. Positivity N2Y, LLC Price: $399 Special Skill: vocational, instructional management Disability: learning Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool, elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Windows, Mac, iOS (Apple), Android, Chrome, Other Positivity is the first comprehensive online behavioral solution to support class- room management, empower students’ self-regulation, and automatically collect behavior-related data. Easily integrated into daily classroom routines, Positivity delivers proactive, evidence-based strate- gies that support emotional control and executive function, enabling students to actively participate in learning and achieve independence.
language development, adapted keyboard/switch access, single switch, multi switch, diagnostic Disability: cognitive, learning, physical Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool Operating System: Children learn about groups of related items. App helps develop visual perception skills, cognitive skills, and language skills. Full Version: https://itunes.apple.com/app/ id1135861893?mt=8 PODD 15/60 for Grid 3 Smartbox Price: $314 - $626 Special Skill: communication, early childhood, language development, speech output Disability: learning, speech Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool, elementary Operating System: Windows PODD is a way of organising whole word and symbol vocabulary in a communica- tion book or speech generating device to provide immersion and modelling for learning.
switch Disability: cognitive, learning, speech Skill Level: preschool, elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Windows, Mac Five life skill categories: daily activities, house keeping, looking good, mealtime and shopping. 705 words/phrases il- lustrated in age appropriate style. Great for creating individualized printouts for shopping lists, daily activities, vocabulary list, plus print out worksheets designed like the on-screen activities. Activities: ID, Multiple Choice, Match, Voice Recorder. Updated 2014 Picture It Software Attainment Company, Inc. Price: $125 Special Skill: communication, language development Disability: learning, physical, speech Skill Level: preschool, elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Picture It Software helps you create a wide range of picture supported documents for student use. Great for schedules, flashcards, communication boards, quizzes, and homework. Pictures for SLPs and Special Education Teachers LocuTour Multimedia Price: $4.99 Special Skill: basic living skills, communication, language development Disability: cognitive, learning, speech Skill Level: preschool, elementary Operating System: iOS (Apple) Thousands of pictures at your fingertips, 3,328 to be exact. Pick pictures that match the interests of the child you are working with.There are 11 major categories like Plants, People, and Places and within each category there are subcategories like Body Parts, Working, Playing, Airplanes, Trains, etc.
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Point to Pictures RJ Cooper and Associates Price: $1.99 - $59
Picto-Selector Picto-Selector Price: $0
Special Skill: communication, early childhood, language development Disability: cognitive, physical, speech Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool, elementary, secondary Operating System: Windows, Mac, iOS (Apple) Point to Pictures (PTP) is a touch oriented program that helps persons with severe communication disorders learn about and use language. PTP starts at the cause and effect level to motivate and help specific learners to use pictures as communication symbols and then progresses to matching and identifying pictures. Point-N-Click Polital Enterprises, LLC Price: $0 Special Skill: , adapted keyboard/switch access Disability: physical Skill Level: preschool, elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Windows Point-N-Click is an on-screen virtual mouse for anyone that has difficulty clicking a mouse. If you can move a mouse, trackball or any pointing device, you can click in any application that runs within a window. It is icon-based and does not require reading skills.
Potato Face Marblesoft-Simtech Price: $59 Special Skill: Disability: Skill Level: Operating System:
Special Skill: basic living skills, cognitive redevelopment, communication, early childhood, language development Disability: learning, speech Skill Level: infant/toddler, preschool, elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Windows, Mac Select from over 28,000 pictos and com- bine them into picto sheets. Fast search options and categories to select from. Create your own pictos from photo’s and text. Use drag and drop to combine pictos in sheets that visualizes daily tasks. Picture Context Reader Merit Software Price: $79 Special Skill: language development, instructional management Disability: cognitive, learning Skill Level: elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Windows Students read short sentences accompa- nied by illustrations. Emphasis is placed on learning the nouns in the pictures. They receive personal explanations and instruction throughout. Students advance as they demonstrate readiness. Scores are automatically kept in a record manage- ment system that allows teachers to view and print detailed reports.
Six activities allow the child to play and work with faces, facial expressions and ap- pearance. Activities range from cause and effect to matching, including the whimsical Potato Face activity where the child can experiment with thousands of wacky com- binations.Works with keyboard, mouse, touch screen or up to three switches. Powerful Printing Handwriting Software Write-On Handwriting Price: $40 - $50 Special Skill: communication, early childhood Disability: learning
PixWriter Software Attainment Company, Inc. Price: $125
Special Skill: communication Disability: learning, speech Skill Level: preschool, elementary, secondary, adult Operating System:
Skill Level: preschool, elementary Operating System: Windows, Mac
PixWriter Software is a talking picture and word processor. It helps students write independently by combining symbol support with highlighted text and speech. Users can compose written documents without mastering phonics, spelling, and alphabet skills.
Powerful Printing software has its own uniquely designed font, software, custom- izable worksheets and paper workbooks for additional practice (left and right hand versions.) This innovative program combines technology with scaffold in- struction, auditory and visual support, and hands-on learning.This four-step process ensures that all children learn proper letter formation.
Pointing Wizard Koester Performance Research Price: $0 Special Skill:
Picture Cue Dictionary Attainment Company, Inc. Price: $79
Place in Groups - Create groups of related items STEP BY STEP Price: $0 - $2.99
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