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TalkTime with Tucker

Looking for a way to encourage and reinforce verbalization? Try TalkTime with Tucker, Laureate's new voice-activated program that encourages youngsters to talk.
Objective:
To encourage children to practice a variety of vocalization skills and to experiment with the duration, pitch, and volume of their utterances

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

Special Features:
  • Voice-activated animation routines
  • Imaginative colorful scenes
  • High quality speech output
  • Accessibility with microphone, keyboard, or single switch

Benefits:

  • Encourages expressive verbalization
  • Fosters conversational turn-taking
  • Promotes exploration of duration, pitch, and volume
  • Builds imagination and confidence
Product Description:
TalkTime with Tucker is a new voice-activated program that encourages young children and/
or individuals with speech impairments to vocalize. When a child talks or makes sounds into the microphone, Tucker moves and talks.

Unlike voice recognition programs which require precise and accurate speech input, this program accepts a broad range of sounds and/or speech to make Tucker come alive. Almost any input is followed by an appropriate response.

Working with non-vocal students?
With the single switch option, Tucker responds as if your non-
vocal clients had spoken. This encourages turn-taking and gives them the experience of participating in a conversation.

Five exciting adventures

Five activities accommodate a wide range of children at different functioning levels. During each adventure, Tucker encounters a variety of characters that do wondrous things when he talks to them.

screen shot On Stage
This activity trains cause and effect and turn-taking. As Master of Ceremonies at the Amazing Animal Show, Tucker commands a variety of animals to do silly tricks. Any sound a child makes causes an animal to perform an amusing stunt.
screen shot On the Farm
This activity encourages children to imitate animal sounds. As Tucker walks around the farm, each animal makes its sound and asks Tucker to repeat it. Then the animal gives him something special to put in his wheelbarrow.
screen shot A Walk in the Woods
This activity is designed to increase the length of a child's vocalizations. By talking into the microphone, children make things (such as a caterpillar, a bird's eggs, and tadpoles) change. The longer they vocalize, the more they'll see happen.
screen shot Fantasyland
This activity encourages children to experiment with the pitch and volume of their voices. As Tucker walks toward the castle, children can speak louder to make him fly. Along the way, mystical characters obstruct his path and ask children to talk loudly or softly to get by.
screen shot Let's Talk with Casey the Chameleon
This activity is designed to encourage natural communication exchanges. Casey the Chameleon asks Tucker a series of open-ended questions. After the child answers, Casey responds by transforming into the object he is talking about.

 

TalkTime with Tucker (Mac/Win95/98 CD)
1 Copy 140-F $125
5Copies 140-5-F save 30% $437 CALL
10Copies 140-10-F save 40% $750 CALL
20Copies 140-20-F save 50% $1,250 CALL
Network License 140-NW-F $625 CALL

The program requires a Sound Blaster (or 100% compatible) with microphone input.
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