Speech Builder lets speech and language professionals, assistants, teachers, parents and children create and work with therapy worksheets, cards, stickers, activities and games.
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Speech Builder has been designed both as an accessible tool for the therapist and a means to engage children in the creation of materials and help them focus on therapy.
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Speech Builder includes the complete library of 700 images from NDP3. It also includes a full set of 43 Jolly Phonics phoneme illustrations. We plan to add further resources as they are developed.
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Speech Builder was created to support the strategies and therapy techniques of NDP3 in dealing with severe speech disorders, but can equally be used at other levels to provide independent planned and ad-hoc treatment from oro-motor activities to connected speech.
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The software includes the complete set of NDP3 sequencing, transition, grid and cards templates. We will also be providing over 500 NDP3 worksheets as they appear in the printed edition, ready to use within Speech Builder - to customise and colour in.
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We have tried to provide the features needed by SLTs/SLPs while making it enjoyable to use every day for anyone involved in therapy. The entire database of images, for example, can be searched by title, key sounds, phonetics and word or phrase type, so it’s easy find exactly the right words and images.
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Images and templates can be coloured in on the screen using a very simple paintbrush – just click a colour and click the image. Images can be freely moved around, enlarged, shrunk, distorted, rotated and duplicated. Text can be added in single lines and paragraphs, in a range of styles, including phonetic characters, using a simple palette.
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Notes on each project, such as advice to parents, can be added using a tab in the corner of the stage and can be updated and saved at any time. Projects can be shared with other therapists, teachers and parents – both as Speech Builder Projects and as image files that can be viewed on any Mac or PC.
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Projects can be printed to any standard colour printer. Sheets of pre-perforated card and stickers are provided in a range of sizes for activities, rewards and games.
We will be offering ready-made templates of the entire NDP3 therapy cards set, to print cards individually and in groups as and when needed.
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Speech Builder: Very easy to use, a growing resource, engaging for children, and packed with possibilities. An introduction and demonstration video is in development. Last updated March 2010.
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