This program encourages exploration and helps students identify over 120 nouns. It is ideal for building vocabulary and facilitating social interaction.

Exploring Nouns...
• Trains 120 nouns in full-screen settings
• Expands vocabulary knowledge using realistic contexts
• Offers open-ended exploration and identification activities

Suggested for students (Pre-K-12) with:
• Autism, developmental disabilities, language-learning disabilities, and hearing impairments
• Also English language learners (Pre-K-6)

Product Description:
Exploring Nouns encourages users to explore and interact with vocabulary items in 10 full-screen settings. You select which scenes will be used and how many items in each scene will be trained. There is also an option to train 30 of the earliest developing words in 5 simple scenes.

How Exploring Nouns works…
The program begins by offering instruction on each object in a scene (“This is a bus. Find the bus”). Then the student is asked to identify the nouns without instruction (“Show me the airplane”). Once a student can identify each vocabulary item in a scene without instruction, the program automatically moves to the next scene.

Exploring Nouns offer two types of reinforcement for correct answers: either the noun animates or amusing characters perform a short skit using enriched language.

Automatic record-keeping
Exploring Nouns features extensive data collection for documenting student performance. Built-in reports allow you to easily track your students’ learning activities over time and ensure accountability.

Exploring Nouns has a companion program, Exploring Verbs. To learn more about it, click here.

 

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Activities

Eight Activities are Available

Optimized Intervention
This activity tracks student responses and automatically guides the user through the curriculum. The program moves among three training levels, each with a different amount of instructional support.

Exploration
This open-ended activity lets students select an item on the screen, hear the word, and optionally, see the associated text and animation.

Identification
Students are asked to identify nouns from selected scenes. You can choose any one of the three training levels.

Mixed Explore/Identify
With this option, the program alternates between the Exploration and Identification activities.

Testing
This activity can be used to document pre- or post-training performance.

Three Supplemental Activities
• Word Introduction (Cards) presents a single word and its associated animation on a black background.
• Word Introduction (Scene) introduces vocabulary items one at a time until a full scene is displayed.
• Animated routines use enriched language to expand knowledge of selected nouns

System Requirements

Macintosh® System Requirements:
• 300 MHz or faster PowerPC or Intel processor
• Mac OS® 8.1 or later, including any OS X
• 128 MB RAM, 256 MB RAM for OS X
• 40 MB available disk space
• 8x speed CD-ROM
• 800x600 resolution

Windows® System Requirements:
• 300 MHz CPU or faster
• Windows® 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista or later
• 64 MB RAM
• 40 MB available disk space
• Windows compatible sound card
• 8x speed CD-ROM
• 800x600 resolution

Authors

Authors:
Mary Sweig Wilson, Ph.D,
Bernard J. Fox, M.S.

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Lesson Tips...
For effective ways to use this program, click here.