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First Categories- Sterling Edition
Appropriate for Language Development Stages
4 & 5.
Correlated to State Standards.
This program uses 60 common nouns to train 6 essential early
categories: animals, foods, body parts, clothing, furniture, and
vehicles. Laureate has maintained all of the activities that were
originally in First Categories, but have enhanced the curriculum and
added many new activities (11 in all, see below) and features.
Individualized Teaching & Testing
By Optimized Intervention® technology First
Categories begins with a probe test and then progress through the
categories in developmental order. You decide to train using 2 or 3
choices and whether to use illustrations or photographs. There are
now 4 examples of each item to aid in generalizing the concept. For
those motivated by visual stimulation we now offer exciting animated
3-D blocks and full-screen scene backgrounds; for learners who are
easily distracted, a simple black background can be used. At the end
of each lesson a summary of the student’s performance is presented,
allowing you to quickly review progress and ensure accountability.
Suggested For
• Children and adults with language-learning disabilities, developmental disabilities,
physical impairments, visual impairments, hearing impairments, and autism
Special Features
• Natural sounding speech, colorful graphics, and amusing
animation
• Optional text for beginning readers
• Control over lesson presentation
• Accessibility with keyboard, touch screen, single switch, or mouse
• Automatic record-keeping
Benefits
• Enhances understanding of category
concepts and retrieval
• Expands knowledge of word meanings
Minimum System Requirements:
Win
95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP or later, 300MHz CPU, 64 MB RAM, 40MB hard disk
space, 8x speed CD drive, sound card, 800 x 600 resolution
Mac OS 8.1+ including OSX,
PowerPC 300MHz, 128 MB RAM (256 MB RAM for OSX), 40MB hard disk
space, CD drive, 800 x 600 resolution
Interface options:
Touch screen, keyboard, single switch, mouse, or compatible pointing device
Activities
In addition to Optimized Intervention®,
this program offers 3 training activities, testing, and 6 supplemental activities:
Item Array - Inclusion
This activity helps students grasp the concept of
categorization by grouping items from the same category.
Single Item - Inclusion
The student is asked to select an item that belongs to a particular
category (e.g. “Which one is an animal?”) |
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Single Item - Exclusion
The student is asked to find the item that does not belong to a
particular category (e.g. “Which one is not clothing?)
Build-a-Category
This single switch activity introduces one item at a time and then
allows the student to see all of the items in a category together
(e.g. "These are all vehicles.) |
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Robot Review
In this activity each time the student selects an item, the
narrator names that item and its category.
Find Four
In this activity the student is asked to find 4 items that
belong to the same category.
Magnet Match
The student is asked to match the item at the top of the screen to
one of the 4 items at the bottom of the screen.
Pick-a-Pair
In this activity, the student is asked to find 2 items from
the same category (e.g. "Find the furniture.") |
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