Team Up With Timo - Vocabulary

Team Up With Timo: Vocabulary was designed for children in grades K–4 with hearing impairments, apraxia, autism and other language learning delays. The realistic, visible speech of Timo provides an important and effective key to learning new vocabulary and language on the computer. With closely directed and consistent auditory practice, students develop confidence in their ability to learn, say and use new words.

 

Whether you're a teacher, specialist, or a parent, Timo can help:

• Support classroom work by pre-teaching and reinforcing K–4th grade vocabulary.
• Increase the numer of words your students can hear, say, read, spell, and identify.
• Provide pronunciation practice in fun and effective ways.
• Build confidence and strategies for learning and using new words.

Practice identifying, hearing and saying new words with Timo
Timo engages each student in conversation and addresses them by name as he takes them through personalized, interactive lessons that include:

• 127 vocabulary-building lessons covering more than 650 words and images drawn from K–4th grade curriculums
• 8 customizable levels of practice: pre-test, presentation, identification, reading, spelling, imitation, elicitation, and post-test
• Dozens of subject areas and topics: animals and insects, space, the human body, weather, water cycles, and more
• Complete captioning that can be turned on or off
• Recordings of student's speech and articulation that can be heard later by therapists, teachers, or parents
• Customizable and colorful reward animations given for correct answers
• Cheerful, personalized My Work reports that visually present progress by affixing virtual stickers next to each lesson completed

Lessons cover a range of vocabulary in the classroom and at home.

Tools for teachers, specialists and parents
Team Up With Timo: Vocabulary includes a password-protected Administration area where you can:

• Create and edit student profiles
• Customize the program to meet individual students' unique needs
• Generate detailed reports of students' progress, on a lesson-by-lesson basis, for inclusion in IEPs
• Play back student recordings to monitor vocabulary and articulation progress

• Windows 98 or higher

• Minimum 600 MHz CPU with minimum 128MB RAM

• Thousands of colors

• Sound Blaster or compatible 16-bit sound card

• Speaker or headphones

• Microphone (for Imitation and Elicitation sections only)

• CD-ROM drive, 200 MB disk space (including lessons)

Macintosh

• Macintosh OS 9.2 or higher, including OS X

• Minimum 400 MHz CPU with minimum 128MB RAM

• Thousands of colors

• Speaker or headphones

• Microphone (for Imitation and Elicitation sections only)

• CD-ROM drive, 200 MB disk space (including lessons)