First Categories
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Product Description:
First Categories is a language and vocabulary tutorial program designed for use by children and adults with language-learning, developmental, physical, hearing, or visual disabilities, or autism. The program uses 60 common nouns to train six essential early categories: Animals, food, body parts, clothing, furniture, and vehicles. The program begins with a probe test and then progresses through the categories in developmental order, and instructors can decide whether to train using two or three choices and whether to use illustrations or photographs.
Main Features:
- Build-a-Category introduces each item in a category until all 10 items appear together.
- Single Item Review presents one item and gives its name and category.
- Robot Review presents and names four items from a single category.
- Find Four displays 10 items and student finds four that belong to the same category.
- Magnet Match asks students to match item to one of four items.
- Pick-a-Pair presents five pairs of items and the student finds a pair from the same category.
Primary Specifications:
- Software requirements: Windows XP or higher, Mac OSX 10.6 or higher, CD drive required for installation.