Curricula and Tools

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Curricula and Tools

2/6/09 This page and links updated.

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Material Vendors
Link sites for resources
Software & Online to make materials
1. Online photo downloads
Computer Learning Software
Kids videos and online play
Music
Academic Curricula

Material Vendors

$ ABA Materials

Same as Edumart Computer learning and picture software. Also sales to UK

FREE and $ ABA Educational Resources Ltd.

sample tokens, cards, data forms, sample drills, Picture symbols

$ Attainment Company, Inc.

Publisher of special needs books and products; assistive technology, life skills, pre-vocational materials.

$ Autism Asperger Publishing Company

Independent publisher specializing in books on autism, Asperger syndrome and other pervasive developmental disorders.

$ Autism Alliance First Responders Autism Training Video

Training videos for educating public safety "First Responders", schools, hospitals, churches and typical classmates about individuals with autism

$ Autism Teaching Tools

Juliet Burk's site: videos: "The Early Learner at Home" in English, Italian and German. Links to info and other sites

$ BehaviorDevelopmentSolutions

BACB Exam prep, professional training materials, software for timing and data analysis

$ and FREE Childcareland

File folder games, lacing cards and other skill play. There is a FREE printables page

$ Claudia's KIDS

Anatomically correct soft dolls--internal organs, "sensitive" body parts.

$ Come Play With Me

Developmental toys for infants and children

$ Complete ABA Program

-Ebay Seller: sugarpea_products_autism

-Danni Bloom, SugarPea Products

-Recommendation of parent on VerbalBehavior Yahoogroup.

$ Constructive Playthings

early childhood educational toys, equipment, books, records, tapes, videos, art supplies, and teaching aids

$ Different Roads To Learning

Serving special needs community since 1995-specialize in ABA/VB supplies

Applied Behavior Analysis and Verbal Behavior programs

$ Discovery Toys

Early childhood educational toys--recently interfaced with PCDI to develp autism Project. Some unique toys and games.

$ Early Learning Site

Same as Edumart and ABA materials. Computer learning and picture software. Also sales to UK

$ Education 4 Kids

Vendor for Quizmo bingo games (good)--early learning, math, reading, elementary sets, etc.

$ Edumart

Same as ABA Materials and Early Learning Site. Computer learning and picture software. Also sales to UK

$ elliecards

photo laminated communication systems

$ EnableMart

Communication Assistive Technology page

FREE File folder Fun

File folder games

$ Frank Schaffer Publications

At School Specialty website. Flashcards and workbooks

$ The Gray Center

Carol Gray’s Social Stories books and videos:

$ Hands-On Tasks & IDEAS® Inc

Basic, Vocational, & Job Training skills activities for Special Needs,

e.g. Autism related disorders, Self-Contained classrooms,

Life Skills classrooms, Occupational Therapy, and Resource settings

$ Handwriting for Kids

Makes tracing worksheets, Ms. Readman, IL

FREE Health Care Notebook

From Parent to Parent of New York State

In caring for your child with special health care needs you will receive information from many sources.

This Health Care Notebook will help you organize information in one central place.

$ Icon Talk

Visual scheduling materials and laminating supplies. Some free downloads

$ The Invisible Clock-II

wearable timer with multiple timing, vibrating, beeping options

$ Joe Schedule Online Autism Software

"Create Activity Schedules, Token Boards, Social Stories, Behavior Charts and more"

$ Kaplan Early Learning Special Needs

special needs teaching materials. Link to other Kaplan catalogs

$ Lakeshore Learning

Educational materials for early childhood and elementary

$ The Learning Shop

Toys--Ravensburger, Playmobil, Thomas the Tank Engine. Mostly for the 2-5 crowd.

$ LinguiSystems

Speech, Healthcare, LD, Reading

$ Littlesheep Learning UK

$ Little Tikes

Indoor and outdoor riding, play structure, recreational toys primarily for preschoolers

$ Mastermind Toys--Canada, US.

educational toys, books, games. Large selection; see site for full info.

$ and FREE Mayer-Johnson

Boardmaker software, visual icons , some free downloads

$ Natural Learning Concepts

Specialized for autism. Cards, Social Stories and "Conversation Starters"

$ OZMO

Unique toys. Toys for reinforcement.

$ Pocket Full of Therapy

slant boards. OT tools and toys

$ Pyramid Educational Products

The PECS people. Manuals, icons and supplies. Schedule of trainings by Pyramid Associates.

$ School Specialty Publishing

Educational supplies vendor--links to Frank Schaffer, Judy, Living and Learning, etc.

$ Sensory Resources

$ Smartstart UK

$ Social Stories.com

Social story books by Cindy Bailey. "Going to the Dentist", "Going to the Doctor", "Going to the Grocery Store"

2/9/09: Currently the only book in stock is "Going to the Doctor".

$ Special Kids

Video modeling and more

$ Special Needs Project-America's Disability Bookstore

800 titles on autism and developmental disabilities topics

$ Super Duper Publications

MEGA source for speech therapy, language and motor materials. Fast delivery. Free shipping

$ The Turtle Shell

Educational and classroom materials.

$ Therapro

products for occupational therapists, speech therapists, physical therapists, educators, and parents. Motor, handwriting oral motor, life skills and assistive technology tools

$ Think Button

Wooden and musical toys + other

$ TimeTimer

Visual timers and watches

$ Unspoken Communication

Personalized social stories

$ VB Teaching Tools

Specializes in kits and materials targeting the ABLLS and ABLLS-R assessments.

$ and FREE Workbook Window

The Learning Loft, LLC.

Convert workbook or sheet to wipe off practice book, sample worksheets.

$ World Class Learning Materials

Link to Quizmo bingo page. Quizmo early learning alphabet, animals, shapes and colors, fruits and vegetables, math, etc.

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Link sites for resources

FREE and $ Sites for Parents

HUGE link site of worksheets, games and printables.

FREE and $Sites for Teachers

HUGE link site of worksheets, games, and printables.

FREE Free Special Needs Teaching resources

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Software & Online to make materials

FREE How to create Talking Books in Powerpoint

Richard Walter

More free downloads at

Speechtx.com

FREE Lexical Development Norms for English

Useful!

This gives the age normed vocabulary for many common words understood and used by

typical infants and toddlers so you can see if you are targeting words that are not

developmentally appropriate, and conversely missing those that are.

Thanks to Wayne Fisher, Ph.D., University of Nebraska for pointing this out.

$ Early Learning Site

Same as Edumart and ABA materials. Computer learning and picture software. Also sales to UK

FREE and $ Joe Schedule Online Autism Software

FREE Medical sysmbol sets

$ Silver Lining Multimedia

Card making and other multimedia

$ Therapy Resources

Parent-run company whose products include Flash! Pro2 CD-ROM with 10,000 printable common flashcard images.

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Online photo downloads

About image downloads: Please review the use policy of the websites to avoid violating the free use policy and/or copyright. Thanks.

FREE Google Images

Note: To avoid display of "inappropriate" or "adult-content" images, you can change display preferences

by clicking on Preferences link and changing criteria as desired under category

SafeSearch Filtering.

FREE Freefoto

Freefoto use policy

FREE Pics4Learning

"is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers."

FREE Royalty free photos

for websites, PowerPoint, newsletters, forums, blogs,

schools and homework - FreeDigitalPhotos.net

FREE Stock.exchng vi

Photo usage/restrictions Info

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Computer Learning Software

Needs adult supervision for instruction.

$$ Computhera

$$ Concept Expansion Films

Language Booster videos

3 Teaching action DVDs and 1 Teaching Emotions disks

Also includes CDs to print the photographs as flashcards.

Emotions and Sensations

$$ DTTrainer

Widely used software. Low cost trial disk available.

$ and FREE Flix Productions Animated Educational Software

Inexpensive software. Free trial downloads. Typing, money, simple math, letters, clock, etc.

$$ Funnix

"A Tutor in Your Computer"

Computer-based Direct Instruction reading program. Includes, spelling, writing,

fluency component.

$ The Grammar Trainer

FREE and $ HeadsproutTM Early Reading

Online phonics reading instruction. Free trial.

FREE How to create Talking Books in Powerpoint

Richard Walter

FREE and $ Speechtx.com

$ Judy Lynn software

Designed for low cognitive development children and easy skills.

FREE King's List of On-line Math Activities

Online Math Activities--from basic quantity through Algebra

$$$ and FREE Laureate Learning Systems

Very expensive software but a free sampler disk to try

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$$$ Living Books® Library

Win 3.1, 95/98

Our comment: the price is ridiculous, and there doesn't seem to be an XP or Vista compatible version, although the programs will run in "compatibility mode". These programs are great; if you have the right system and can locate them via discounter they are worth buying.

$ Marblesoft Simtech software for windows and mac-The Early Learning Series

Early Learning I (colors, shapes, numbers, letters)

Early Math Skills (early addition, subtraction, number sequencing, greater than, less than and equal)

Money skills--counting money and making change

more...

Also switch games, Judy Lynn software and other publications for special needs

$$ Mind Reading

Emotions software. May be backordered.

$$ Model Me Kids Social Skills Videos

Time for School

Time for a Playdate

Others

$ Monarch Educational Materials

DVDs

Everyday Actions

More Everyday Actions

Printable charts to go with the videos

$ and FREE Mouse Trial

Mouse Trial is a fun game designed for kids with autistic spectrum disorders. It's based on the method of discrete trial therapy which is used in most ABA programs. You can play Mouse Trial online right here. It comes in a number of small inexpensive modules. The numbers module is FREE and even the other modules let you have a few free goes.

$ and FREE NECC Preschool Playroom

Online subscription video modelling program from New England Children's Center.

Toy Construction, Toy play, Pretend Play, Socio-dramatic play with peer.

Demo example of the service available.

$$ and FREE Progressive Academic Learning System (PALS)

Online demo

$$ Puddingston Place

Puddingstone Place is an interactive virtual environment where individuals enter and move around in the two-floor Puddingstone house, comprised of seven photo-realistic rooms. Rich in sound, graphics, and animation, this interactive house incorporates common household objects that can produce their associated sounds, movements, and labels (names) when individuals activate them. For example, the tea kettle in the kitchen whistles and generates steam, producing a text label and voiceover for the word 'kettle.'

$ and FREE Raz-Kids.com

Online leveled reading program

has functions for listening to reading, read, and comprehension questions.

Requires a subscription. Free samples to examine.

$ Silver Lining Multimedia

Card making and other multimedia

$$ and FREE TeachTown

TeachTown: Basics features a comprehensive, scientifically backed curriculum that teaches the child using on-computer lesssons and off-computer, naturalistic activities. Progress is graphed automatically and your entire team can share data and session notes over the TeachTown secure server.

30 day trial

$$ and FREE Team Up with Timo Products

Animated Speech Corporation. Free trial

$ SpeechTeach v2.0: Language Teaching System

NOW with voice recognition!

SpeechTeach was developed by a team of Ph.D.-level experts in language education, including included Dr. William Hutchison, Dr. Kenneth Stephens, Dr. William Potter, with consultation from Dr. Mark Sundberg and Dr. Janet Twyman – leading specialists in language teaching for developmentally delayed and autistic children and adults (see books by Dr. Sundberg in this section of the CCBS store). It was designed to teach spoken language in the most effective manner possible, combining images and video presentations of words that language-delayed students are likely to encounter every day.

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Kids videos and online play

Dolch and Fry Sight Words Macromedia Flash reading games

developed by the Mansfield/Richland County Public Library

Talking-enhanced sightreading games--cool

from Room 108 Primary Kids Education

Typing tutor game

from Room 108 Primary Kids Education

$ Talking Child

Baby Babble video

$ Clap to It video of clapping games (VHS)

FREE The Kidz Page Jigsaw Puzzle Page

Various photo and picture themes, 6, 12,25, 40 or 100 pieces

Our note: puzzles are good, the site is cluttered and does have ads.

FREE The Kidz Page Learning Games page

ONLINE More educational games

Our note: the games are okay, the site is cluttered and does have ads.

$$ Max and Friends

Like a kids TV program but based on ABA programming, so

the actions are slowed down without too much extra stuff.

Imitation, matching, instructions

Onsite video clips.

FREE Nick Jr.

Online

Blue's Clues, Dora the Explorer, Wonderpets

$ Sesame Street DVDs

See esp. Kid's Favorite Songs, Learning About Letters, Ernie Counts 1,2,3. Bert and Ernie's Word Play.

$ So Smart Letters

$ So Smart First Words

$ So Smart Colors

$ So Smart Sights & Sounds

So Smart or other baby video may seem simplistic, but these videos are uncluttered and have a relatively leisurely pace that allows discussion.

FREE UpToTen Boowa & Kwala site

Online

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Music

$ and FREE Learning Basic Skills Through Music Vol. 1

Can also listen to album tracks samples online here.

FREE Lyrics-Learning Basic Skills Through Music Vol.1

$ Learning Basic Skill Vol. II

$ and FREE Learning Basic Skill Vol. II

Can also listen to album tracks samples online here.

FREE Lyrics-Learning Basic Skills Through Music Vol.2

$ Songs for Teaching

$ Special Needs page

Suggestion: Check out Tuned in to Learning.

$ Tuned into Learning

NEW 8/26/07--Handout from ABA2007 conference from this vendor: Suggested alignments with the ABLLS-R. To download the handout, left-click here(pdf, 181kb).

Please note that I can't vouch for the accuracy of their claims, so take this as a suggestion of possible use.

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Academic Curricula

See also DI CURRICULUM

Reading

Dolch, Fry and other sight word lists

FREE For sight reading words,

type "Dolch words" and "Fry words" into

a search engine such Google.

FREE Fry's 300 Instant Sight Reading Words

About High-Frequency Sight Words--The Fry List, Instant Words, Dolch Words and Word Wall Words

FREE Fry, Sitton, color and other sight word practice sheets, flash cards

FREE Dolch Sight Words

FREE Dolch and Fry Sight Words Macromedia Flash reading games

developed by the Mansfield/Richland County Public Library

Talking-enhanced sightreading games--cool

from Room 108 Primary Kids Education

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Sight word based reading

$$ Edmark Reading Program, Print, Level 1

$$ Edmark Reading Program, Print, Level 2

$$ Edmark Reading Program, Software Level 1

$$ Edmark Reading Program, Software Level 2

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Phonemic based reading

See also DI CURRICULUM

For Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, Reading Mastery Classic, Reading Mastery Fast Cycle, Horizons, Journeys and Funnix (Computer reading program)

$ Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons,

Equivalent to Reading Mastery Classic I & II Fast cycle.

1986 Engelmann, S., Haddox, P., Bruner, E. Fireside.

GREAT beginning reading program. Worth getting if you want to "try out" DI without an initial investment in the more expensive curriculum materials.

$ Supplementary Materials

for Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons.

(Dr. Phyllis Haddox's website) Supplementary materials and video on presentation and pacing.

$ Funnix Computer-based Direct Instruction reading program

"A Tutor in Your Computer"

Computer-based Direct Instruction reading program.

SUGGESTIONS FOR USING FUNNIX AS CONTINUING PROGRAM AFTER 100 EASY LESSONS

$ Great Leaps

Precision Teaching/Fluency based math, reading curriculum materials

$ and FREE TeachYourChildrenWell

Direct instruction +Precision Teaching curriculum materials for reading, math and spelling; webcam tutoring, freebies. Michael Maloney is willng to talk to parents about suitability of curriculum for a student.

$ Phonological Coding: Phonemic Awareness; Haughton Learning Center

$ Phonological Coding: Word & Syllable Awareness; Haughton Learning Center

For more infomation on Haughton Learning Center and materials

FREE and $ HeadsproutTM Early Reading

Online phonics reading instruction. Free trial.

FREE My Breakfast Reading Program

c/o Dick Briggs. Online

$ Morningside Press

Fluency supplements for core curriculum

$ Sopris WestTM Educational Services

Search: “Skill Builders”

Curriculum, intervention and assessment materials