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Are you working with children who have a core vocabulary of nouns and verbs but having difficulty conveying meaning? This program helps children understand the importance of Subject-Verb-Object word order.

Many children with language impairments have persistent problems with word order processing and production. This pioneering language intervention program helps them learn the importance of Subject-Verb-Object word order in sentences. The program also helps bridge the gap between the one- and two-word stage, and improves language comprehension for students.

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Here’s how it works…

Using Laureate’s new Optimised Intervention® technology, Simple Sentence Structure begins with an assessment test to determine where to begin training. Then the program automatically guides the student through the appropriate curriculum.

Simple Sentence Structure highlights the roles of subjects, objects, and verbs in sentences. Students move through four sentence sets:

• contrasting subjects
  
• contrasting objects
  
• contrasting verbs
  
• and subject/object reversal.

During training, the student is presented with two pictures and asked to identify one of the them (e.g. “Find…‘The boy is splashing the girl’.”) The program monitors each student response and then adjusts the training level accordingly. New instructional reinforcement animations prepare students for the Reversibles set.

At the end of each lesson, a summary of the student’s performance is presented, allowing you to quickly review your student’s progress and ensure accountability

Four contrasting sentence sets

In this program, Optimised Intervention®, Training by Set / Level, Testing, and the Supplemental Activities can be used with four different sentence sets. Each sentence set contains 20 sentences. In each set, students are shown two pictures and they must choose the one that represents a given sentence. Here are some sample sentences from each set:

• Contrasting Verbs The mother is holding the baby. The mother is washing the baby.
• Contrasting Objects The girl is riding her horse. The girl is riding her bike.
• Contrasting Subjects The boy is washing the monster. The monkey is washing the monster.
• Subject/Object Reversal The bear is riding the lion. The lion is riding the bear.

Who will benefit from Simple Sentence Structure?

Children (Pre-K-8) with

• down syndrome who make errors in the processing and production of sentences in correct Subject-Verb-Object word order.
  
• autism will benefit from the direct instruction to establish correct word order processing and production.
  
• specific language impairments who are already speaking in short sentences, but make errors in comprehending and producing Subject-Verb-Object word order.
  
• significant language delays who are in the late one-word stage of development. At this point, they have a core vocabulary of over 100 words but have not yet begun to combine words. Simple Sentence Structure can help these children move into the two-word stage without encountering word order difficulties.
  
• developmental disabilities, language-learning disabilities, low vision, and hearing impairments

The program is also suitable for English language learners (Pre-K-6).

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Prices

	Code	Media	Platform	$AUD Price	$AUD GST
	Simple Sentence Structure Sterling Edition - Single User Licence
	LT707	CD-ROM	Mac, Mac OS X, Win 98, Win ME, Win NT, Win 2000, Win XP, Win Vista, Windows 7	$229.00	$0.00