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Sharpens students reading comprehen- sion and critical thinking skills. Students work with exercises to determine main idea, make inferences and draw conclu- sions. A convenient record management system tracks scores and allows teachers to view detailed reports.The full working sample of this program may be down- loaded from the publisher’s Web site.
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REACH Scan Plus is for people who use switch scanning. It combines all of the features of REACH with Smart Keys and ScanBuddy. Scanning control is seamlessly transferred back and forth between REACH and ScanBuddy making it easy to switch from typing (REACH) to mouse operations (ScanBuddy). REACH Scan Plus Lists Applied Human Factors, Inc. Price: $399 - $899 Special Skill: communication, early childhood, eye-hand coordination, language development, adapted keyboard/switch access, braille, scanning, single switch, multi switch, speech output, authoring system, diagnostic Disability: cognitive, learning, physical, speech, vision Skill Level: preschool, elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Windows REACH Scan Plus Lists is for people who use switch scanning. It combines all of the features of REACH with Smart Keys, Smart Lists and ScanBuddy.
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Special Skill: cognitive redevelopment, early childhood, eye-hand coordination, diagnostic, IEP/IPP, instructional management Disability: learning Skill Level: preschool, elementary Operating System: Windows, Mac, iOS (Apple), Android, Chrome Reading Eggs begins at the emergent level, helping pre-K through 2nd-grade learners develop foundational skills as they learn letters and sounds, spelling, sight words, and basic sentences. After an initial placement test to determine where students are ready to start, learners can immediately begin building skills with short, scaffolded instruction and practice to develop reading automaticity. Reading for Details I LocuTour Multimedia Price: $3.99 Special Skill: cognitive redevelopment, language development Disability: cognitive, learning Skill Level: elementary Operating System: iOS (Apple) Stories for reading practice for Grades 1-3. 26 stories about adventures, activities, nature and human interests.The student is asked to determine the main idea of the story, answer some questions that rely on details in the story and make an inference that is supported by the details. Reading for Details II LocuTour Multimedia Price: $3.99 Special Skill: cognitive redevelopment, language development Disability: cognitive, learning Skill Level: elementary Operating System: iOS (Apple) Stories for reading practice for Grades 4-6. 28 stories about adventures, activities, nature and human interests.The student is asked to determine the main idea of the story, answer some questions that rely on details in the story and make an inference that is supported by the details. Reading for Details: Stories for Early Reading LocuTour Multimedia Price: $3.99 Special Skill: cognitive redevelopment, language development
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language development, vocational, adapted keyboard/switch access, scanning, single switch, speech output, telecommunications Disability: cognitive, learning, physical, speech Skill Level: elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Windows This augmentative communication and writing product provides quick access to thousands of words while guiding you through sentence construction. Conversa- tional sentences will cost you only about two clicks per word. REACH Sound-It-Out Phonetic Keyboard Applied Human Factors, Inc. Price: $329 - $829 Special Skill: communication, language development, adapted keyboard/switch access, scanning, single switch, multi switch, speech output, authoring system Disability: cognitive, learning, physical Skill Level: preschool, elementary, secondary, adult Operating System: Windows Use a keyboard to find the correct spelling for a word or type phonetically. Select sounds for a word and then pick it from a list. Help with homophones is provided.
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