THE LEARNING CYCLE:
THE PATH TO ACHIEVING YOUR CHILD'S COMMUNUCATION GOALS
As soon as you download I Can Have Conversations With You!™, your child's therapy begins, and she or he will begin to make progress immediately.
Over time, as the learning cycle is repeated with each new downloaded conversation module in the series, you will witness your child be better able to start, maintain, and end naturally-flowing conversations.
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The child works on the conversation independently
Right away, your child begins to sharpen his or her conversational skills.
Conversation modules begin with videos and photos of people talking about a particular topic. Through structured learning, repetition, and reinforcement, the program systematically zeroes-in on:
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Who the conversational partners are
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Where they are situated
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What they want to say and why
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Bridging segments of the conversation
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Summarizing the main idea of the conversation
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Vocabulary, logic, and figures-of-speech
As a result, your child will be ready to judge if the words that the partners say match the conversational situation.
Thousands of instructional and reinforcing elements maximize your child's understanding of the dialogue between the conversational partners, such as:
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Video modeling
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Interactive visual / audio prompts
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Sentence-starters / Fill-ins
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Speech bubbles
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Reward images with stimulating sound effects
Within each conversation module, your child will benefit from many hours of skill-building work and learns at his or her own pace with suggested breaks built in. Upon your child's return from a break, the program will pick up right where it left off!
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Your learner identifies who the conversational partners are, what they want to say to each other, and why they want to say it. When a correct answer is tapped, it becomes green, followed by a reward image and an accompanying sound.
Through interactive 'touch cues', your learner experiences the importance of eye contact between the conversational partners.
Your learner will always hear the conversational partners speak the written text inside of the speech bubbles. When a correct answer is tapped, it becomes green, followed by a reward image and an accompanying sound.
Your learner will always hear the conversational partners speak the written text inside of the speech bubbles. Through interactive 'touch cues', your child learns to connect the pieces of the conversation with words that relate correctly.
Karen's words of encouragement keep your learner motivated every step of the way!
Hundreds of stimulating reward images with fun sound effects reinforce correct responses.
Your child will summarize and reconfirm the main idea or 'gist' of the completed conversation.
Your child will summarize and reconfirm the main idea or 'gist' of the completed conversation. Further, to help your child have well-rounded conversations, other aspects of language are targeted (e.g., vocabulary words, grammar, figures of speech, logic, problem solving).