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Early categorization Training
First Categories

Here's an excellent program for children and adults who need to develop their categorization skills. High quality speech, colorful graphics, and amusing animation will captivate and motivate individuals with a variety of special needs... no reading required.

Objective:
To train categorization skills using 60 nouns in 6 categories

Suggested for:
Children and adults with language-learning disabilities, developmental disabilities, physical impairments, hearing impairments, visual impairments, and autism

Special Features:

  • Natural sounding speech, colorful graphics, and amusing animation
  • Optional text for beginning readers
  • Teacher 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
Authors:
Mary Sweig Wilson, Ph.D.
Bernard J. Fox, M.S.
Product Description:
screen shotFirst Categories trains 60 nouns in six categories: animals, body parts, clothes, foods, utensils, and vehicles. This program offers many customization features, such as optional speech, text, and reinforcing animation. You can also decide whether two or three pictures will be presented.

Effortless record-keeping
First Categories keeps detailed records of an individual's performance. At the end of a lesson, you can save or print out a summary for your permanent files.

Special Macintosh and Windows Features
These versions have two scanning options: linear and step scanning. At the end of a lesson, students are treated to an enjoyable animated scene until an adult exits to the lesson summary. You can collect all of a student's records from Laureate's programs in one file.

Three instructional activities

Review
This activity presents each word in a particular category (e.g. "A horse is an animal.").

Inclusion
This activity asks you to select a word that fits into a particular category (e.g. "Which one is food?").

Exclusion
This activity asks you to find the word that does not belong in a particular category (e.g. "Which one is not a body part?").

 First Categories (Mac/Win95/98 CD)
1 Copy 203-F $230
5Copies 203-5-F save 30% $805 CALL
10Copies 203-10-F save 40% $1,380 CALL
20Copies 203-20-F save 50% $2,300 CALL
Network License 203-NW-F $1,150 CALL
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