User`s guide

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At every Stage, you can document your learners’
skills and progress.
Accessible activities help you identify your learners’ skills.
The computer automatically gathers the data for each activity.
You just save the report.
With Stages Report Wizard, you can choose several reports from
an activity to show progress over time (see page 25).
Stage One:
Cause and Effect
The Stage One learner begins to understand that an input device controls the
computer. The assessment activities show the learner’s ability to use the
access device to make things happen on the screen.
Assessing Stage One Skills
Start with “Press and Hold” activities to determine whether the learner under-
stands cause and effect. Then move to “Press and Release” activities so the
learner can show intentional control over the device. With activities ranging
from trains and rainbows to bumper ball, bowling and the antics of a chimp,
there are sure to be many activities that will motivate your learner.
Stage One assessment activities include:
3 activities for both child and teen/adult learners
3 two access modes: Press & Hold, Press & Release
3 choice of feedback: visual, auditory, multisensory
3 adjustable type and timing of prompts
Stage One Assessment Software
WIN/MAC ST1BA ..............................$125
Building Stage One Skills
Use the following recommended instructional software
from various publishers to practice Stage One skills.
Child Software Bundle
WIN/MAC ST1CSB ..............................$180
3 Press to Play™ Sports/Don Johnston, Inc.
3 Creature Chorus/Laureate Learning Systems
3 Switch Kids/Simtech Publications
Teen/Adult Software Bundle
WINDOWS ST1TSBW ..............................$224
MACINTOSH ST1TSBM ..............................$224
3 Cause & Effect Sights and Sounds/Simtech Publications
3 Attention Teens/RJ Cooper
3 RadSounds/RJ Cooper
Stages 1–3:Language Foundation
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ASSESSMENT AND CURRICULUM SOFTWARE