Daily Routines
This program uses a child’s normal daily activities (from getting up in the morning to going to bed at night) to help the student to learn listening, identifying, and naming skills.
Select a program by clicking on the option and then click the “Enter” button to open the program.
Help |
Click on the “Help” button to view the help contents. The help file opens in a separate window.
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About |
Click on the “About” button to view the profile of this company.
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Enter |
After selecting a sub-program, click on the “Enter” button to open the program.
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Exit |
To close this “Actions” program, click on the “Exit” button.
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Note: In most of our matching and activity programs, the student must wait until the command voice has finished before he/she clicks on the object. For instance, the voice must finish “Match catching” before the student clicks on the catching picture. (If the student clicks on the catching picture before the voice command is finished, nothing will happen.) Therefore the teacher/parent needs to instruct the student to wait for the voice command to finish.
These sub-programs are:
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Select the option “Daily Routine Matrix in Sequence” and click on the “Enter” button to open this program. Daily routine activities are shown here in a two-row, two-column matrix. When the mouse pointer moves over a picture of a daily a routine activity on the left, an animation related to the activity plays in the animation box on the right side of the screen. |
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>> and <<
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By clicking on “>>” or “<<” the student can view the next or the previous set of daily routine activities.
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Auto Play
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Check this box to run the “Daily Routine Matrix in Sequence“ program automatically; the student can just sit back and watch. To stop the automatic run, uncheck this box.
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Label
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This option is selected by default. When this box is checked, the name of the activity appears just below the picture. When unchecked, the word doesn’t appear.
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Done
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Click on the “Done” button to close “Daily Routine Matrix in Sequence” and return to the main screen.
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Select the option “Sequencing Daily Routines one at a time” and click on the “Enter” button to open this program. This program displays the daily activities in sequence from getting up in the morning to going to bed at night. Each activity is shown with an animation. When each animation is finished, the next activity appears automatically. |
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>> and <<
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By clicking on “>>” or “<<” the student can view the next or the previous daily routine activity.
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Done
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Click this button to close this program and return to main screen.
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Click on “Matching Daily Routines Using Pictures” and then click the “Enter” button to open this program. The default selections for this program are: Level 3, Training Mode, Daily Routine Distracter, Command Text, Prompt with Blink, Congratulatory Animation, and Select All. Here a daily routine activity is shown at the top of the screen. The student is asked to click on the matching activity shown among others at the bottom of the screen. |
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Level 1
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When this option is selected, one daily routine activity appears at the top of the screen. One daily routine activity picture is shown at the bottom of the screen to be matched with the one at the top, without any distracter.
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Level 2
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When this option is selected, one daily routine activity appears at the top of the screen. Two activity pictures are shown at the bottom of the screen to be matched with the one at the top of the screen. There is one correct choice and one distracter. You can choose a Daily Routine or Non-daily Routine distracter. “Mixed” gets disabled.
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Level 3
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This level is selected by default. One daily routine activity picture appears at the top of the screen. When this option is selected, three activity pictures are shown at the bottom of the screen to be matched with the one at the top of the screen. There is one correct choice and two distracters. You can choose Daily Routine, Non-daily Routine, or Mixed distracters.
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Training
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The Training mode is selected by default. This program uses daily routine pictures to train listening and matching skills.
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Test
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Here, the student can test him/herself. “Prompt” and “Congratulatory Animation” are disabled. The test results are recorded and “Report” becomes enabled.
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Report
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Only under “Test” mode is “Report” enabled. After doing any number of test problems, you can click on “Done” to see the report. When you click on “Done” the settings screen appears. Now click on the “Report” button under “Test” to see test results. First the current test result will be shown with the date, starting time, end time, and level of the test. It also shows the percentage of correct answers. There are also buttons for showing test results in different forms. “Report” allows the teacher/parent to measure the student’s progress. The following are available.
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Detailed Report
This screen shows test results including the grade, object identified, distracters, and time taken to finish the test. |
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View Old Records
If there are old test results, they will be shown on this screen. The current test result is always on top. |
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Bar Chart
If you wish to see test results on a bar chart, click this button. |
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Overalls This button appears on the Bar Chart Screen. Here, the parent/teacher can see the average of all test results in the last ten attempts. Written vertically on the bar are: overall percentage of correct answers, and date and starting time of the tests. When there are any old results, they will be shown, left to right, from oldest to latest.
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Right Arrow
This changes the display to the next more recent set of test results. When the current test result is on the screen, this button is grayed. |
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Left Arrow
This changes the display to the previous set of test results. When this button is grayed, there is no earlier test to see. |
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Print
When this button is clicked, the printer prints the current screen. |
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Delete
All existing records will be erased if this button is clicked. (But a warning message box pops up and asks for confirmation.) |
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Done
Click on this button to close this program and return to the previous screen. |
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Distracter
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Daily Routine
This option is selected by default. When this option is selected, the distracters are all daily routine activities. This option is disabled for Level 1 and available for Level 2 and Level 3. |
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Non-daily Routine
When this option is selected, the distracters are some items other than daily routine activities. This option is disabled for Level 1 and available for Level 2 and Level 3. |
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Mixed |
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Command Text
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This is checked by default. When checked, a short command text is visible at the bottom of the screen. If unchecked, the command text will not be visible.
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User Defined
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This feature allows the teacher/parent to customize the screen by selecting particular matching objects and distracters and choosing their locations on the screen. When this box is checked, the next screen will be the “SELECTION” screen. This screen allows the teacher/parent to choose the matching object (Identifying Daily Routine Activity) and its location on the screen. It also allows the teacher/parent to choose the distracter/s. There are no distracters for Level 1. Therefore the teacher/parent should select only the matching daily routine activity. For Level 2 and Level 3, the teacher/parent has to select the matching activity, its location, and distracters from the User Defined “selection” screen before clicking the “Ok” button. The picture-matching screen has a “Back” button. The student can return to the “User Defined” setting screen by clicking this button. Click the “Done” button to close the User Defined program. |
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Prompt
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This is checked by default. If the student fails to match the correct daily routine picture within ten seconds, the program guides him/her to the correct daily routine picture. This is available for “Training” mode but disabled for “Test” mode.
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Uncheck this box if the prompt is not needed in “Training” mode.
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Prompt with Blink
This option is selected by default. If the correct daily routine picture is not chosen after ten seconds, it blinks. |
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Prompt with Label
The names of the activity appear below the pictures. |
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Prompt with Animation
If the correct daily routine picture is not chosen after ten seconds, an animation appears. |
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Congratulatory Animation
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This box is checked by default. This is available only for the “Training” mode. When this is checked, clicking the correct daily routine picture invites a congratulatory animation. This animation runs for ten seconds. Click anywhere on the screen or click on the animation itself or press the space bar to stop the congratulatory animation.
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Uncheck the box if the student doesn’t need congratulatory animation.
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Selection
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Click on the check box to select or deselect the daily routine activity.
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Select All
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Check this box to select all activities. Uncheck to deselect.
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Ok
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Click this button to open the program after choosing settings.
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Done
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Click this button to close the program and return to the main menu.
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Click on “Matching Daily Routines Using Words” and then click the “Enter” button to open this program.
This program runs like “Matching Daily Routines Using Pictures,” but instead of pictures, words that name the daily activities are used.
The student is required to click on the correct word, which represents the daily activity shown on top of the screen.
The settings are the same as those of “Matching Daily Routines Using Pictures”.
Click on the “Discriminating Daily Routines” option and then click the “Enter” button to open this program.
Here, the student is asked to find and click on the correct picture shown on the screen.
The settings are the same as those of “Matching Daily Routines Using Pictures”.