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Talking Clocks Plus Ages 5-13  Windows    Pricing
Talking Clocks shows children how time works with fun four games.  In Set the Clock children set a clock to match a target time which is written, and which can also be spoken.  In Say the Time children click on words or numbers to build up a sentence, which says the time on the clock.  Match the Clocks - Find out who can program a video, but can’t translate TV time!  How Much Time asks children to work out the time difference between any combination of two clocks.   

Terrapin Logo

Ages 7-adult Windows Macintosh $95
A version of the kid's Logo programming language.  Easy to understand commands let beginners, from kindergarten to adult, get started in minutes.

Test & Improve Your Memory

Ages 10-adult Windows  $35

This beautiful and innovative suite of memory improvement games provides long-term play value and challenge for the whole family.  I especially liked the 8 games that focus on and strengthen visualization and visual memory, including the ability to visualize things from other perspectives.  The 4 challenging verbal games  strengthen the ability to categorize and retrieve verbal information and would be most applicable for highly verbal children.  
TextThing Ages 7 -adult Windows    Pricing

TextThing improves children's reading skills and provides a cognitive mental workout by automatically creating games out of text you cut and paste into TextThing. You can instantly generate nine mentally challenging activities, including having children recreate the written text one letter or word at a time, finding the correct sentence amongst several non-sentences, make each word from scrambled letters, filling in the blanks for missing words, filling in punctuation, create spelling tests, and making crossword searches for words in the text.  You can print out activities and also select levels of difficulty for the activities.
Thinkin' Things 1, 2 and 3  Ages 5-8  Windows    Pricing

Thinkin' Things 1

The Thinkin' Things series uses fun games to strengthen a variety of cognitive skills: memory, auditory processing, critical thinking, and problem solving. My children played these games for over 5 years and never got bored.  Levels of difficulty are adjustable and increase as the children improve at tasks.  

Thinkin' Things I strengthens cognitive skills for children, ages 4-8, . Once your child has mastered Thinkin' Things 1 he or she is ready to move on to Thinkin' Things 2, which provides similar activities, at but at a bit more challenging level for ages 6-12. Thinkin' Things 3 provides even more challenges for kids, ages 7-13.  More

TimeLiner Deluxe Grades K-12 Windows    Pricing

TimeLiner Deluxe is a highly flexible, innovative program that allows parents, teachers and high functioning kids to easily present events, pictures, information and even video clips on a timeline - increasing the comprehension of visual learners in complex subjects and to better understand sequences of events.  Time lines can be printed out and displayed on a wall, uploaded to a web site, or used for a multimedia presentation including text, graphics, sound, and video clips.  Times lines could be created to provide visual sequential schedules for non-verbal learners.  Comes with 180 ready-made carefully researched time lines for use in Grades K-12 in wide variety of subjects.  You can use the more than 400 graphic images that come with the program to create your own time lines or graphics from your computer, CD clip art, or the internet.
Touch It Series Ages 3 and up Windows Macintosh Touch Screen Compatible Pricing

This new software series helps children with moderate to severe difficulties to develop hand-eye coordination skills by touching objects as they move across the screen. Using the mouse, touch monitor, or interactive whiteboard, students target and explode the objects. 

The speed, size and color of every object can be controlled by the adult. Adjust the speed of travel, pointer size, number of objects, and even designate random selection. The program has color choices to allow you to design activities to develop visual and tracking skills. Scoring and timing are set for individual or group play. Ideal for developing targeting skills, gross motor control, anticipation skills, visual stimulation skills, and cause and effect. Four titles are available:  Animals, Clothes, Everyday Objects, and Food.  

Train Your Memory Ages 10 and up Windows  $59 Out of Stock

Helps kids develop a strong foundation for working methods and memorization strategies that build memory skills. Players will have fun while working on memory while also enhancing logic, language, concentration, and visual skills.  

Wellington Square Ages 6-9 Windows   Pricing

Wellington Square provides engaging stories, in-depth exercises, and quizzes, to improve children's reading ability and comprehension.  Designed for children experiencing reading difficulties and those with special needs. 

What's the Time Mr. Wolf? Ages 4-16 WindowsMacintosh $58
Mr. Wolf is kind and gentle but he's getting a little forgetful! As children help him in his clock repair shop, they learn the concepts, vocabulary and math related to understanding time and telling the time. Days of the week, months of the year and seasons are also covered, and an interactive 'talking' clock adds to the fun.
Writing Focus Ages 8-12 Windows $68

Young learners develop creative and factual writing skills as they complete 9 exciting activities. They can build pictures and write stories to go along with them, design comic strips, write captions, compose play scripts, and write and record voice-overs for video stories. Easy-to-use tools and banks of words, pictures, and examples also help kids create shape poems, arguments, biographies, and diary entries.

Young Writers' Workshop Ages 8-13 Windows   $80 Pricing
 

Children become young journalists in the award-winning Writers' Workshop. Children develop factual and creative writing skills in a stimulating environment. Build a face and then write a story about your character. Join the Newsgroup where a bank of video shorts, photos, and reporting assignments inspire young writers to create their own sound-track scripts. Write captions, broadcasts, and reports for newspapers and magazines. Research news stories and read from a teleprompter. Children feel like professional journalists while they learn to capture their audience's attention with concise reporting.