Nouns and Sounds
Sterling Edition™

Here's a fun, effective way to increase auditory awareness and build critical listening skills. Individuals of all ages will enjoy exploring nouns, matching them with photographs, identifying sounds, and playing games that exercise auditory and visual short-term memory.

This program:
• Trains discrimination of 100 environmental sounds
• Builds auditory awareness and listening skills
• Exercises short-term memory

Suggested for individuals (Pre-K through Adult) with:
• Autism, developmental disabilities, language-learning disabilities, low vision, hearing impairments, cochlear implants, TBI, and aphasia

Product Description:
Nouns & Sounds is an engaging program that encourages individuals to match common environmental sounds with 100 realistic photographs. Of the 100 nouns used in the program, half are acquired by typically developing children by 2 1/2 years of age while the remainder are acquired later. Additional Information or purchase.

Additional information

Optimized Intervention® Offers Improved Training!
Using our Optimized Intervention technology, Nouns & Sounds begins with an assessment to determine which sounds can’t be identified. During training, your child is asked to match a sound to a photograph (“Find the one that makes this sound… meow.”). The program continually tracks performance and uses this information to guide the learning process.

Flexibility and control
You decide whether to train using two or three choices, whether to have visual reinforcement on or off, and whether to include text. At the end of each session, a performance summary is presented, allowing you to quickly review progress and ensure accountability.

Activities

Nouns & Sounds Includes 9 Instructional Activities!

Optimized Intervention
This activity automatically assesses your knowledge of common nouns and their sounds and then delivers highly individualized training. Based on your responses, the program moves among three training levels, each with a different amount of instructional support.

Training by Level
You are asked to match sounds with photographs. You can choose any one of the three training levels to accommodate individuals who need a fixed level of support.

Testing
This activity can be used to document pre- or post-training performance.

Three Additional Instructional Activities
• Is this the Right Sound? asks you to decide whether a sound matches or does not match a picture.

• Identifying Noun Sounds asks you to listen to a sound and identify the correct picture from 6, 8, or 12 choices.

• Remember that Sound presents a sound and, after a short delay, asks you to identify the correct picture from two or three choices.

Three Supplemental Activities
• Introducing Nouns and Sounds is a single switch activity that presents one noun and its sound at a time.

• Exploring Noun Sounds lets users explore different sounds from an array of 6, 8, or 12 picture choices.

• Concentrate on Noun Sounds asks you to find two identical pictures from an array of 6, 8 or 12 cards that appear face down.

Pricing

Product #	Regular Price	Family Savings Price
Nouns & Sounds (Mac/Win CD)
751-WP	$125	$62.50

System Requirements

Macintosh® System Requirements:
• 300 MHz or faster PowerPC or Intel processor
• Mac OS® 8.1 or later, including any OS X*
• 128 MB RAM, 256 MB RAM for OS X
• 40 MB available disk space
• 8x speed CD-ROM
• 800x600 resolution

Windows® System Requirements:
• 300 MHz CPU or faster
• Windows® 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista or later
• 64 MB RAM
• 40 MB available disk space
• Windows compatible sound card
• 8x speed CD-ROM
• 800x600 resolution

Authors

Authors:
Mary Sweig Wilson, Ph.D,
Bernard J. Fox, M.S.

"Several of my non-speaking children verbalized for the first time when they were exposed to the sounds of these words."