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Twenty Categories

Try Twenty Categories with your middle and secondary school students or with adults who have traumatic brain injury or aphasia.
Objective:

To develop advanced categorization skills using 300 nouns in 20 categories

Suggested for:

  • Children and adults with language-learning disabilities, developmental disabilities, physical impairments, visual impairments, hearing impairments, and autism
  • Adults with traumatic head injury or aphasia
  • Students learning English as a Second Language (ESL)

Special Features:

  • Optional voice and animation
  • Teacher control over lesson presentation
  • Accessibility with keyboard, touch screen, single switch, or mouse
  • Automatic record-keeping

Benefits:

  • Trains 20 categories
  • Reinforces reading skills
  • Provides practice with standard multiple choice format
Authors:
Mary Sweig Wilson, Ph.D.
Bernard J. Fox, M.S.
Product Description:
This program uses multiple choice questions to train 300 nouns from 20 categories. Simple menus let you customize the lesson format to meet an individual's needs. You select the categories to be covered, the criterion to end the lesson, and the question format. You can also turn both the voice and an animated character off if they are not appropriate for the user.

Try Twenty Categories with your middle and secondary school students to improve their categorization skills. You can also use the program to provide cognitive retraining for adults with traumatic brain injury or aphasia.

Special Macintosh and Windows Features
These versions have two scanning options: linear and step scanning. You can collect all of a student's records from Laureate's programs in one file.
Three instructional activities

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

Inclusion: Category to Noun
This activity asks you to select the category in which a word belongs (e.g. "What is a cantaloupe?").

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

Categories Trained
Dwellings, Relatives, Furniture, Fruits, Vegetables, Beverages, Birds, Flowers, Workers, Insects, Parts of a Building, Parts of Speech, Colors, Musical Instruments, Reading Materials, Sports, Footwear, Cities, States, Countries
 
Twenty Categories (Mac/Win CD)
1 Copy 204-F $200 $150
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10 Copies 750-10-F save 40% $1,200 $900 CALL
20 Copies 204-20-F save 50% $2,000 $1,500 CALL
Network License 204-NW-F $1,000 $750 CALL


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