These programs encourage children and adults with speech or language impairments to express themselves. They provide an interactive environment for language exploration and communication exchange.
These programs:
Promote expressive use of words and phrases
Teach the formation of grammatically correct sentences
Develop pragmatic skills
Suggested for individuals (Pre-K through Adult) with:
Autism, developmental disabilities, language-learning disabilities, physical impairments, TBI, and aphasia as well as candidates for augmentative communication systems.
Description
Talking Nouns I, Talking Nouns II, and Talking Verbs give children and adults with language impairments the opportunity to communicate. Users simply select a word, phrase, or picture to make the computer speak. Corresponding pictures of nouns or verbs appear on the screen.
Versatile teaching tools
These programs offer a variety of activities that reinforce vocabulary comprehension, teach the formation of grammatically correct sentences, improve visual discrimination, and develop conversational turn-taking. They also offer an economical way to train skills needed to use a dedicated augmentative communication device.
Talking Nouns I
Talking Nouns I lets users communicate using 50 early developing nouns. Each of the two built-in templates has 25 nouns. Custom templates that use any of the nouns can be developed and saved.
Talking Noun II
Talking Nouns II includes an additional 50 early developing nouns. This program expands vocabulary and increases communication opportunities.
These programs encourage children and adults with speech or language impairments to express themselves. They provide an interactive environment for language exploration and communication exchange.
These programs:
Promote expressive use of words and phrases
Teach the formation of grammatically correct sentences
Develop pragmatic skills
Suggested for individuals (Pre-K through Adult) with:
Autism, developmental disabilities, language-learning disabilities, physical impairments, TBI, and aphasia as well as candidates for augmentative communication systems.
Description
Talking Nouns I, Talking Nouns II, and Talking Verbs give children and adults with language impairments the opportunity to communicate. Users simply select a word, phrase, or picture to make the computer speak. Corresponding pictures of nouns or verbs appear on the screen.
Versatile teaching tools
These programs offer a variety of activities that reinforce vocabulary comprehension, teach the formation of grammatically correct sentences, improve visual discrimination, and develop conversational turn-taking. They also offer an economical way to train skills needed to use a dedicated augmentative communication device.
Talking Nouns I
Talking Nouns I lets users communicate using 50 early developing nouns. Each of the two built-in templates has 25 nouns. Custom templates that use any of the nouns can be developed and saved.
Talking Noun II
Talking Nouns II includes an additional 50 early developing nouns. This program expands vocabulary and increases communication opportunities.
Talking Verbs
Talking Verbs lets users communicate using 40 early developing verbs. This program increases communication opportunities.
Five Activities Build Communication Skills
Single Touch Activation - In this activity, the computer says each word as it is selected.
Sequenced Activation - In this activity, the computer speaks only after a phrase or sentence has been constructed, The program automatically includes the correct article or verb form so that every phrase or sentence spoken is grammatically correct.
Word Identification - The computer says a word and the user must find the corresponding picture and/or text.
Word Matching - A picture and/or text appears on the monitor and the user is asked to find the one that matches it.
Exploration - Users choose nouns or verbs and the computer names them. The “Show” button can be turned on to introduce sequencing.
