Whole word spelling

Type of exercises:

• Multiple choice and gapfiller exercises for generating words that ‘sound like’ or are ‘the opposite to’ or are ‘the same as’

Developed with SLT: Yes

Theory based: Not a specific theory base, SLT experience

Record own speaking attempts: N/A

Correction of own speaking attempts: N/A

Customisation/personalisation: No

Error handling: Yes. Gives cues after each wrong answer.

Prompts/cues given: No

Tutorials: No

Free trial: Yes

Support: Free lifetime technical support via phone, email or online livechat

Comments:

• Some Americanisms
• Some items are very high level
• Model voice is American
• Need deluxe version for recording results
• Need deluxe version for user selectable cues

N.B:
    Need spelling skills
    Need whole word reading
 

Type of exercises:

• Letter and word recognition
• Written naming
• Multiple choice matching tasks
• Gap filling naming tasks

Developed with SLT: Yes

Theory based: Not a particular theory base, SLT experience

Personalisation of content: No

Error handling: Only for picture naming exercises.

Prompts/cues given: Only in the deluxe version. Cues given for picture naming exercises but not other 6 exercise sets

Support: Free lifetime technical support via phone, email or online livechat

Comments: Need to backspace previous answer before entering new, correct response

Type of exercises:

• Multiple choice and gapfiller sentence,
• phrase and definition completion

Developed with SLT: Yes

Theory based: No specific theory base, SLT experience

Record own speaking attempts: N/A

Correction of own speaking attempts: N/A

Customisation/personalisation: No

Error handling: None

Prompts/cues given: Can choose number of multiple choice options & type of cue

Tutorials: No

Free trial: Yes

Support: Free, life time technical support via phone, email or online livechat

Comments:

• Need mouse to exit before the end of the exercise session
• Extensive number of items to complete
• Some flexibility with answers (multiple correct answers)

N.B:
    Have to delete previous answer before correcting a response
    Writing tasks but also working on semantics
    Need sentence level reading

Type of exercises:

• Letter and word recognition.
• Written naming.
• Multiple choice matching tasks and gap filling naming tasks.

Developed with SLT: Yes



Theory based: Not a particular theory base, SLT experience



Record own speaking attempts: N/A



Correction of own speaking attempts: N/A



Customisation/personalisation: No



Error handling: Only for picture naming exercises.



Prompts/cues given:

• Spoken semantic cues
• Spoken model cues
• Spoken answers
• Choice of number of multiple choice items

Tutorials: No



Free trial: Yes



Support: Free lifetime technical support via phone, email or online livechat



Comments: In deluxe version, automatically moves user on if they are getting responses correct



N.B: Have to backspace previous answer before entering new, correct response

Type of exercises:

• Multiple choice and gapfiller sentence, phrase and definition completion

Developed with SLT: Yes



Theory based: No specific theory base, SLT experience



Record own speaking attempts: N/A



Correction of own speaking attempts: N/A



Customisation/personalisation: No



Error handling: None



Prompts/cues given:

• Choose number of multiple choice options.
• Can listen to question and hear answer spoken but no actual auditory cues

Tutorials: No



Free trial: Yes



Support: Free, life time technical support via phone, email or online livechat



Comments:

• Need mouse to exit before the end of the exercise session
• Extensive number of items to complete
• Some flexibility with answers (multiple correct answers)

N.B:

    Have to delete previous answer before correcting a response

    Writing tasks but also working on semantics

    Need sentence level reading

Type of exercises:

• Auditory & visual picture finding
• Picture identification (multiple choice)
• Sentence completion
• Written picture naming
• Developed with SLT: Yes

Theory based: No, based on clinician experience

Record own speaking attempts: N/A

Correction of own speaking attempts: N/A


Easy to use? No. The user must click on an answer, then click again to input their answer and then click again to move onto the next question.

The internet subscription exercises are very slow to accept the answer making multiple activations possible and therefore potentially confusing.

Customisation/personalisation: Yes

Error handling: None

Prompts/cues given: Only for picture naming exercises

Tutorials: Yes, online

Free trial: Yes but not the complete program

Support: Via Livechat or the suppliers can take over the user’s PC. All support takes place 9am-5pm New York time

Comments:

• The online subscription allows access to all the modules available so as the user progresses they don’t need to purchase new modules. It feels like an app when downloaded on an ipad
• The CD version has more functions than the internet version
• A download version exists for $19.95 per program but works only on Windows, not mac
• Picture naming gives cues (multiple choice/first letter/description/semantic)
• Remote access to results is possible as long as the SLT has the user’s login & password.

N.B:
    US terminology/vocabulary
    Naming exercises are long words with no previous build up exercises to practise pre-spelling skills
    Voice is American and computer generated
    No visual rewards for correct answers
 

Type of exercises:

• Sentence level reading comprehension
• Paragraph level reading comprehension
• Written word finding from written definitions
• Identifying correct spellings
• Whole word spelling
• Auditory word recall

Developed with SLT: Yes



Theory based: No, based on clinician experience



Record own speaking attempts: N/A



Correction of own speaking attempts: N/A



Easy to use?: No. The user must click on an answer, then click again to input their answer and then click again to move onto the next question.



The internet subscription exercises are very slow to accept the answer making multiple activations possible and therefore confusing.



Customisation/personalisation: No



Error handling: None



Prompts/cues given: None



Record results: Yes



Tutorials: Yes, online



Free trial: Yes but not the complete program



Support: Via Livechat or the suppliers can take over the user’s PC. All support takes place 9am-5pm New York time.



Comments:

• The online subscription allows access to all the modules available so as the user progresses they don’t need to purchase new modules. It feels like an app when downloaded on an ipad
• The CD version has more functions than the internet version
• The reading comprehension exercises require higher level semantics and US knowledge.
• Remote access to results is possible as long as the SLT has the user’s login & password.

N.B:

    No practising of spelling skills, goes straight in at single word level with long, low frequency words

    Voice is American and computer generated

    No visual rewards for correct answers