This highly informative and easy-to-follow Power Point presentation provides a complete overview of basic information about how hearing loss is defined, what are its consequences, communication options, and accommodation technologies. Those new to audiometric testing will learn how to understand the implications of audiogram results and the meaning of associated medical terminology. Various communication methodologies (e.g., sign language, speechreading) are explored and strategies offered for optimizing communication. Current technologies for television, telephone, alerting, and face-to-face interaction are explored. This presentation also contains an extensive resource section of consumer and professional organizations, information centers, religious organizations for the deaf, and much more!

Now, you can create your own American Sign Language materials using any of the more than 5,000 clipart images available in this amazing and versatile software. Each sign picture includes the sign itself, the English word equivalent, and a conceptual graphic. These can be printed together or individually. Signs can be accessed in alphabetical order or by categories (e.g., Clothing, Food, Actions, Colors). Make handouts, labels, banners, poster, postcards, and much, much more! If you are stymied about lesson plans or other creative ways to use the clipart, *ASL Clip and Create 4* offers 16 ideas for ways to use the clipart to improve your instructional offerings.

ASL Songs for Kids-1 CD presents six songs typically learned by young children-sung and signed! The songs shown are: The Wheels on the Bus, Happy Birthday, The Ants Go Marching, The Green Grass Grows All Around, Old MacDonald Had a Farm, and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. As the songs are sung, Paws the dog signs, and graphics convey the lyrics, as well as information about the notes and volume. In addition, each song is explained in ASL.

If you see one ant, there is likely to be more! As The Ants Go Marching over the hills in time to the music, they entertain us with their antics. Careful! The rain cloud gets bigger as Paws sings louder till lightening strikes, and the ants run down a hole for cover.

The Green Grass Grows All Around this beautiful meadow where flowers twirl in the breeze in time with the music. The louder Paws sings, the more the sun shines. Watch carefully, and you will see the details of the tree and what is hidden in its branches. It's Paws' birthday! Happy Birthday! For every note in the song, a different candle flickers. As Paws sings louder, birthday balloons inflate! Sing along and wish Paws a very happy birthday! Lying in his tent under the evening sky, Horatio muses about what created the stars above. His thoughts are reflected in the song, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. The stars rotate as the notes are sung, and the moon changes phases with the intensity of each note. Have you ever been on a bus? So much can happen--people climbing on and off, horns honking, babies crying, passengers talking. Just listen as The Wheels on the Bus is sung. As the bus whizzes down the street, watch the city skyline light up with the notes and a construction worker pop in and out of his manhole as the volume changes. You may have known that Old MacDonald Had a Farm, but have you ever seen chicks hop up and down on the farm fence posts to let you know the melody? Poor Old MacDonald! It's hard to manage a farm with pigs, sheep, ducks, goats, roosters, horses, chickens, and cows overrunning the barnyard and a scarecrow flapping its arms the louder Paws sings. And just wait till you see the cheerleader chickens!!

The ASL Tales and Games CD series follows Paws, the signing dog, and his friends as they explore their neighborhood. Each piece of software contains 3 community-focused stories and 10 games. Neighborhood children are deaf, hard of hearing, or multiply disabled, and represent different ethnic groups. Signing and/or audio are options for accessing information.

The ASL Tales and Games CD series follows Paws, the signing dog, and his friends as they explore their neighborhood. Each piece of software contains 3 community-focused stories and 10 games. Neighborhood children are deaf, hard of hearing, or multiply disabled, and represent different ethnic groups. Signing and/or audio are options for accessing information.

Want to teach your baby sign language and don’t know where to start? This sweet little electronic book depicts 124 basic words. Signs are shown in video and pictures. English equivalents (in print and audio), as well as concept graphics, are included. Categories covered include: Animals, Clothes, Colors, Food, and Toys. So easy to use–just click to turn each page.

Want to teach your baby sign language and don’t know where to start? Three sweet little electronic books depict the signs for basic words. Signs are shown in video and pictures. English equivalents (in print and audio), as well as concept graphics, are included. So easy to use–just click to turn each page. Buy all three Baby’s First Book of Signs CD’s for just $35!

Want to teach your baby sign language and don’t know where to start? This sweet little electronic book depicts 143 basic words. Signs are shown in video and pictures. English equivalents (in print and audio), as well as concept graphics, are included. Categories covered include: Actions, Descriptions, Feelings, When, and Where. So easy to use–just click to turn each page

Want to teach your baby sign language and don’t know where to start? This sweet little electronic book depicts 123 basic words. Signs are shown in video and pictures. English equivalents (in print and audio), as well as concept graphics, are included. Categories covered include: Alphabet, Numbers, Home, Outside, and People. So easy to use–just click to turn each page

The British Sign Language/American Sign Language Translator computer program instantly translates any of 1,000 words between four languages--British Sign Language (video), American Sign Language (video), British English (text), and American English (text). Choose a word from the lists in either language or type it yourself, and the other three languages immediately appear. This is a great way for deaf people to learn a foreign sign language and the nuances between British and American English

Did you know that every type of cloud has unique characteristics? Join Pilot Paws as the Co-Pilot to explore this commonly seen but little understood sky phenomenon! This fun-filled, yet informative, adventure shares startling cloud and weather facts, offers opportunities to test your knowledge, and rewards learning with exciting games and the chance to witness death-defying air rescues. All communication is both signed in ASL and spoken in English by Paws the Pilot.

Con-SIGN-tration is the first in a set of 4 game CD-ROMs that challenge reading and memory skills by requiring the player to match ASL pictures to English words that disappear if no match is made. Each CD game covers 10 different categories and related vocabulary. Two levels of challenge make the games appropriate for almost any age player. The games keep score of the number of clicks and matches and randomize every time they are played.

Con-SIGN-tration 2 is the second in a set of 4 game CD-ROMs that challenge reading and memory skills by requiring the player to match ASL pictures to English words that disappear if no match is made. Each CD game covers 10 different categories and related vocabulary. Two levels of challenge make the games appropriate for almost any age player. The games keep score of the number of clicks and matches and randomize every time they are played.

Con-SIGN-tration 3 is the third in a set of 4 game CD-ROMs that challenge reading and memory skills by requiring the player to match ASL pictures to English words that disappear if no match is made. Each CD game covers 10 different categories and related vocabulary. Two levels of challenge make the games appropriate for almost any age player. The games keep score of the number of clicks and matches and randomize every time they are played.

Con-SIGN-tration 4 is the fourth in a set of 4 game CD-ROMs that challenge reading and memory skills by requiring the player to match ASL pictures to English words that disappear if no match is made. Each CD game covers 10 different categories and related vocabulary. Two levels of challenge make the games appropriate for almost any age player. The games keep score of the number of clicks and matches and randomize every time they are played.

The Crash Course in American Sign Language is the most efficient and convenient way yet to learn the basics of American Sign Language (ASL) in the comfort of your home or office. This program guides you step-by-step through 8 classes, divided into 30 easy-to-follow lessons. Video clips of words and sentences, and activities are used to easily introduce and reinforce key vocabulary and grammatical rules. Class topics include: People, Descriptions, Living and Non-living Things, Daily Life, Location, Schedule, Numbers, and Fingerspelling

This delightfully attractive electronic book teaches all of the basic signs for 13 holidays. Signs are shown in video and pictures. English equivalents (in print and audio), as well as concept graphics, are included. Holidays covered include: New Year, Valentine’s Day, Patriotic Days, St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Christmas, Jewish Holidays, Thanksgiving, Graduation, Weddings/Anniversaries, Halloween, Birthday, and Parents’ Days. So easy to use–just click to turn each page.

Marvin Teaches Fingerspelling II is the coolest way yet to improve your receptive fingerspelling skills. Beginners can learn to recognize the different hand shapes that make up the letters of the alphabet. Signers of every ability level can practice reading over 2,375 fingerspelled words at speeds varying from novice to expert. A new option allows you to put in your own vocabulary words as well. After becoming confident with your fingerspelling perception, test your new skills and receive an evaluation of your performance. Can you read Marvin's blazingly fast fingers to qualify as a word champion?

The Mexican Sign Language/American Sign Language Translator computer program instantly translates any of 1955 words between four languages--Mexican Sign Language (video), American Sign Language (video), Spanish (text), and English (text). Choose a word from the lists in either language or type it yourself, and the other three languages immediately appear. This product is a great way for deaf people to learn a foreign signed and spoken language. It also is a wonderful tool for hearing Spanish-speaking parents whose deaf children are learning ASL to communicate and share their culture. School and social service personnel can use it to help communicate with Spanish-speaking parents of deaf students or clients.

Don't waste your money on a TTY ever again! myTTY is a Windows computer program that can make your computer perform like a sophisticated TTY with many more features (e.g., phonebook, answer machine, caller ID, descramble, customized fonts and backgrounds). There is even a LAN version of myTTY available that can give immediate TTY access to every connected terminal.

The five stories in Paws Signs Stories are original. They utilize strategies found successful in teaching early reading skills, such as repeated phrases, patterned language and predictable structure. Each story also teaches something about ASL. Each story has three games (i.e., 15 in all), each focusing on a different skill, such as visual memory, visual sequencing, literacy, spelling, math, and creativity.

Ready! Set! Sign! is a comprehensive, 24-lesson, 5 CD-ROM program that teaches American Sign Language. It provides approximately 13 hours of video instruction and teaches over 1,200 signs equating to more than 3,000 English words. You can view any sign, at any time, from any place in the instructional sequence using a Sign Search component. It also teaches fingerspelling, numbers, and major grammar concepts. Every instructional segment provides practice opportunities with immediate feedback. A "Cultural Moment" video ends each lesson and gives valuable information about deafness, deaf people, and Deaf Culture. All instruction is also completely accessible through closed captions.

Remote Real-time Transcription is a process for converting speech to text instantaneously. It is typically used for the benefit of deaf students in classroom or other lecture settings. The word "remote" denotes the fact that the transcriber does not have to be physically in the classroom to deliver the service. This CD provides the basic training necessary to implement remote real-time transcription within a school or work environment and train an individual to become a transcriber

Prepare your child for school with this fun little electronic book of basic school signs. Each page shows the sign in both video and a picture. English equivalents (in print and audio), as well as concept graphics, are included. 76 signs in all! So easy to use–just click to turn each page.

Set of Four Con-SIGN-tration Cds, for the price of three, includes all of the IDRT Con-SIGN-tration games that challenge reading and memory skills by requiring the player to match ASL pictures to English words that disappear if no match is made. Each CD game covers 10 different categories and related vocabulary. In the 4 CD set, there are 40 different categories and a total of almost 3,000 words. Two levels of challenge make the games appropriate for almost any age player. The games keep score of the number of clicks and matches and randomize every time they are played.

devices that help to promote communication, motor skills and devices that help to promote communication, motor skills and working together. ReacTickles provides an accessible computer environment for imaginative play and learning. Perfect for young learners or those on the autism spectrum. ReacTickles can be used with an interactive whiteboard, any desktop or laptop computer, mouse, keyboard, microphone and other adaptive devices. ReacTickles also helps with attention skills and encourages sharing. ALSO AVAILABLE FOR THE SMART TABLE "CALL FOR PRICING"

A Busy Day allows all learners to experience reading success even before the skills of phonological awareness are fully developed.

A Busy Day is full of highly motivational graphics, activities and games to encourage and reinforce children’s word recognition. Based on vocabulary that is familiar and meaningful, A Busy Day’s activities help students to understand that text carries meaning, by encouraging them to hear, say, and match words to pictures, and move the words around on-screen – providing an exciting multi-sensory and interactive experience. Highly motivating, this CD-ROM’s approach is perfect for those children who may not have been able to access the normal routes to reading. It encourages the development of language skills and acquisition of new vocabulary which, in turn, enhances self-esteem. A Busy Day is particularly effective for children on the autistic spectrum, those with Down’s syndrome, attention difficulties, those who are primarily visual learners and those learning English as an additional language. It is also ideal for use in mainstream elementary classrooms.

• Helps children acquire and recognise a range of vocabulary that can be understood, generalised and used to construct meaningful sentences • Enables fast learning, promoting increased confidence and motivation • Contains full teacher guidance, including training videos • Audio support throughout • Contains colour-coded word banks with the facility to add your own words • Printable clip art, worksheets, and certificates • Printable record keeping • Full range of customisable accessibility settings including switch access

All About Science with Toys is designed to support students in the study of Physical Processes by introducing students to a variety of new skills through its six menus and 15 interactive activities including forces and motion, pushes and pulls, and light and dark.

All About Number Level 1 is packed with fun activities that encourage students to explore and practice their understanding of a variety of math topics including numbers up to 10, counting, reading numbers, number vocabulary, and subtraction. Full audio support is given on every page. There is also a built-in word processor with a speaking word bank, which allows children to write about what they have discovered.

All About Number Level 2 allows students to practice and test their understanding of vital mathematical concepts such as counting to twenty and counting in 2s and 5s, odd and even numbers, reading and ordering numbers and place value, doubles and estimating. Full audio support is given on every page. There is also a built-in word processor with a speaking word bank, which allows children to write about what they have discovered.

All About Shape and Space is designed to support students’ development in mathematics and technology including pattern and design, paths, mirror symmetry and how 3D shapes are formed. The accompanying audio support guides the student through each stage, making it ideal for group or independent work.

All About Weather and Seasons promotes thought and discussion through a variety of tasks relating to weather and the seasons. The CD-ROM incorporates activities, which enhance students’ understanding of the effects of weather. Students learn about different weather types, watch and record weather patterns, and explore how weather affects daily lives.

Alphabet Track is a motivating and easy-to-use CD-ROM that enables users to learn the names of the letters of the alphabet, and alphabetical order, through games and activities that can also improve short-term memory. Students with literacy difficulties often find it frustrating and embarrassing that they cannot easily recall the alphabetic sequence that forms the basis for so many lists and categories in our everyday lives. Alphabet Track gives them the opportunity to learn the alphabet in a non-threatening and non-judgemental atmosphere. Alphabet Track enables users to: • Improve visual and auditory sequential memory • Practice correct orientation of letters • Improve keyboard awareness skills • Record their own voice when reciting the alphabet. Suitable for young mainstream learners (aged 4 to 9) and all older learners who may have difficulty with short-term memory and recalling sequences.

Eye Track

Developed by teachers and occupational therapists, Eye Track focuses on visual perception skills including discrimination, memory, spatial relationships, form consistency, figure ground and closure perception. Eye Track was designed for learners from 3, as well as older learners with attention, dyslexic or dyspraxic difficulties. The learner is encouraged to complete activities in order to recapture the lovable rogue Ronnie Retina, who has escaped from his prison cell. Supported by printable worksheets and clip art, this is a unique CD-ROM. Each activity has five levels of difficulty and will keep learners engrossed while addressing vital areas of development.

Idiom Track helps to identify and explore English idioms and their meanings. The CD-ROM consists of a selection of 60 idioms, graphically illustrated to demonstrate their actual and literal meanings. The idioms are grouped into various categories, which include animals, food and drink, colour and parts of the body. Idiom Track features a range of fun activities to further reinforce the meanings of idioms. These activities gradually build the users’ understanding, as well as their confidence and use of social language in a fun and interesting way. You can also import your own digital images to illustrate real meanings of particular idioms. Other features include: • Curriculum-linked suggestions • A range of accessibility options • Integrated user records. Idiom Track is appropriate for learners aged 9+ and older learners with specific learning difficulties, including autistic spectrum disorders, dyslexia and semantic/pragmatic disorders.

Phoneme Track

Can you say “cup” without /c/, “swift” without the /w/, or “teach” without the /ch/? Phoneme Track encourages learners to attend to, identify, segment, blend and manipulate the sounds (phonemes) that are representative of graphemes in the English language. Learners need specific phonemic awareness training so phonics makes sense and reading becomes automatic. Phoneme Track concentrates on fun activities, which delete and substitute phonemes at the beginning, middle and end of words. As well as being an extremely useful resource in the mainstream classroom, Phoneme Track is ideal for the older learner who may be experiencing specific phonological difficulties.

Sound Beginnings – Making Sounds is designed to encourage vocalization through exploration and skills-building exercises. It encourages and develops basic awareness of the dimensions of speech, such as volume, inflection, pitch, breath control and the presence or absence of voice. Students are challenged as they use their voice to move through Racing, Jigsaw, Blow-up, Invaders and Floating activities. These specially chosen activities are particularly suitable for pupils who are at the early stages of acquiring spoken language. Teachers can configure the programs to suit the level of the users and add their own specific images. A record of the individual’s progress can be created and printed at the end of each activity. NB: Requires a microphone.

Spell Track aims to train the learner to look carefully at words and to reinforce correct spellings by tracking the correct letters of a particular spelling. Word lists are provided and there is ability to add your own words and sentences to personalise the context. Spell Track addresses specific difficulties with: • Word recognition, graphic knowledge and phoneme/grapheme correspondence • Spelling strategies – Spell Track encourages proof-reading and reinforces the technique ‘look, cover, type, check’ • Visual discrimination, left-to-right directionality and being able to follow a line of type – Spell Track provides a quick and direct way to improve spelling where there are problems with sequencing • Consolidation and revision of phonic skills and spelling strategies.

Word Track reinforces the correct spelling of words in the context of sentences, enabling working on spelling without anxiety. Word Track consists of 180 sentences of increasing phonic complexity, together with simple animated illustrations. The learner is required to correctly track the sentence as well as correctly typing it, with or without the original sentence on the screen. Word Track activities: • Encourage users to check each word using visual discrimination skills • Reinforce correct reading and spelling of high frequency words and easily muddled spellings • Incorporate practising spellings by ‘look, say, remember, type, check’ strategies • Support the correct use of punctuation and grammatical awareness. The accompanying Word Track Workbook contains a range of photocopiable extension activities to help improve memorisation skills.

Introducing Studio and Showtime! A revolutionary way to add SigningAvatar characters to your content and see it signed!

Studio authoring tool allows educators, instructional system designers, and anyone who creates Web, CD-ROM, DVD, or kiosk content to bring the magic of characters that communicate through sign language to digital media. No previous animation or programming experience is required! Signed English (SE) translations are automatically generated using Sign Smith Studio. Authors that are fluent in American Sign Language (ASL) can create content that incorporates the signs, facial expressions, mouthing and eye gaze that are integral to communicating in ASL. The Showtime! cast of 3D animated SigningAvatar characters perform your script and sign your text. Studio creates web page HTML, script or video output.

If you are a BINGO fan, you are going to love SIGN-O! SIGN-O is the most entertaining way yet to learn American Sign Language (ASL) or just plain have fun using the signs you already know. You can play with any of the 21 categories of words, like Food or Numbers, or with all of the over 3,000 signs. It.s so easy to play! When a sign video appears, click on the English word on the gameboard that matches it. If you can match all the words in a row in any direction, you win!

Students struggling to understand print can have successful literacy experiences every day using Picture-Assisted Reading™ materials.

Picture It is the easiest and fastest software one can use to add pictures to text. Use it to create a picture-rich environment!.

This unique CD gives you a glimpse into the history of Deaf Hispanic Americans, profiles eight famous Deaf Hispanic Americans, and shares two deeply-personal and often hysterical stories by Mark Morales of growing up Deaf and Hispanic in the U.S. Information can be printed and pictures of the Deaf Hispanic Americans colored and printed. All information can be viewed in English or Spanish text and audio with ASL video translations.

THE HOME EDITION INCLUDES: 55 sound games with more than 200 word pictures 118 typing challenges with more than 200 words and phrases 40 animated stories with more than 600 words 40 Power Fountain games with 3 difficulty levels and 1,000 words 84 writing samples from real children around the world

Spaceship Challenge CD ROM 9 Phoneme Awareness Challenges with more than 90 items 9 Reading Comprehension Challenges with more than 90 items 9 Spelling Challenges with more than 90 items Reports of individual or class progress 40 printable RWT™ stories 120 clip art pictures and Read, Write & Type Learning System™ characters to illustrate original stories AVAILABLE AS SCHOOL EDITION, LAB PACK, SITE LICENSE. NETWORK EDITION. CALL FOR PRICING

Wordy Qwerty - Foundations of Fluency, takes 7-9 year olds through the next steps of reading and writing fluency, and picks up where the award-winning software, the Read, Write & Type Learning System leaves off. AVAILABLE AS SCHOOL EDITION, LAB PACK, SITE LICENSE, NETWORK VERSION, CALL FOR PRICING

This CD-ROM is specially designed for deaf children, including pre-readers. It contains no language, and can therefore be used by non-English-speaking children as well. Add to this the 100 levels of difficulty, and you have one product that is perfect for PreK to Grade 4! Come meet the twins, and test your wits through nearly 100 different levels of mind-boggling fun. This game will exercise your mental abilities by challenging you with everything from memory matching to math, and much more. Features: -100 levels for long-lasting fun! -Challenge yourself with math matching! -Playable by deaf children and children who cannot read! -Try your hand at association matching! -English and Spanish versions on 1 CD-ROM! -Test your skills with sequence matching! -Save or print your progress to see how well you've done!