ELR Software Pty Ltd
Other Developers
Below are some other small, independent developers, who, like ourselves, are practising clinicians who have put their ideas and experience into resource materials for general distribution. If you would like your materials listed on this page (at no charge), please contact us at info@elr.com.au.

Innovative Communication Programming

The Participation through Communication Guide

A user friendly manual containing information on the assessment and intervention of pre-intentional communicators.

Let's Read Together Part 1 & Part 2

These books provide explanations and examples of methods to develop literacy, using AAC strategies, personalized materials, and commercially available books.

Let's Talk Together (Original & Update)

These books include an assessment and an intervention section for using AAC systems to create an interactive environment. The Update focuses on ways to link AAC systems within an activity to support communication.

Assessment of intentional and symbolic communicators

This tool provides a comprehensive step by step guide for identifying appropriate communication strategies and options.

Using Visual Connectors and Question Maps in the Classroom

This manual provides explanations and examples for identifying needed AAC systems in the classroom environment.

Softpics with Fantasticpics

This is a picture software package with more than 2500 images for creating displays for behavior support, communication and literacy development.

News Talk CD

1. News Talk for Teachers
   This CD presents great ideas in a simple, easy but exciting format for teachers to use to create an effective newstelling programme. It describes how a developmental perspective of newstelling can build upon each child's current oral language skills and increase success in speaking, listening and literacy. Newstelling is an essential part of your curriculum. The CD includes:
   • Many video clips of children and teachers demonstrating news
   • Video of key teaching strategies and ideas for implementing newstelling
   • Comments from teachers about their current newstelling programmes
   • Short interactive quizzes where teachers can test their understanding of the key concepts
   • Voiceovers explaining key concepts
   • A package of useful handouts with ready to use colourful visual strategies and checklists for tracking progress
2. News Talk for Speech Pathologists
   This CD is a resource for use by speech pathologists to support preschool and junior primary teachers in developing speaking, listening and literacy skills. It is an interactive resource full of creative, practical ideas teachers will love. It has 2 major components:
   1. A dynamic workshop that is visually stimulating and ready for speech pathologists to present to teachers. The workshop package contains:
      • Many video clips of children and teachers demonstrating news
      • Video clips demonstrating key teaching strategies and ideas on how to set up news
      • Case studies and activities
      • A package of useful handouts with ready to use colourful visual strategies and checklists for tracking individual progress
   2. A self study package for teachers (News Talk for Teachers)

PELICAN TALK Speech Therapy Resources

The full product list includes:

The Speech Sound Set

Sound pictures for 27 speech sounds.

Motormouth

Get those oral muscles working. A disk to promote agility, direction and strength. Slideshows, cards to print out and pictures galore! Six fun characters make oromotor practice fun!

The Speech Vowel Set

Sound pictures for the 21 vowels that occur in English. Spelling options also included.

Monkey Sounds- Teaching Short Vowels in the Early Years

Let the five monkey characters teach you about the five short vowel sounds. Great for early literacy.

Fun with Sequences

A whole disk full of 2 and 3 stage sequences. View as slideshows, print out the book - or print the scenes out as cards.

I Can Say S Clusters

A whole program to address the phonological process of S CLUSTER REDUCTION. Activities from single word practice to games for generalization.

ReadingDoctor Software (by LearningScience Pty Ltd)

ReadingDoctor Software is a unique, self-adjusting visual/auditory/articulatory mnemonic system that identifies and strengthens areas of weakness in order to:

• Establish and strengthen letter-sound relationship knowledge (including single letter sounds, consonant blends, consonant digraphs, vowel digraphs, diphthongs and other common graphemes, as well as common prefixes and suffixes)
• Teach and improve phonological awareness skills such as blending and segmentation (using the patterns taught in the letter-sound relationship building exercises)
• Establish and strengthen a sight-word vocabulary of the most common irregularly spelt sight words
• Teach common sound/spelling rules (such as the 'magic e' rule)
• Improve auditory discrimination skills
• Improve visual discrimination skills
• Improve vocabulary

This software allows clinicians to:

• Quickly customize activities based on specific criteria (eg creating a blending activity which contrasts CVC words with 'b' and 'd' at the beginning, or a segmentation activity in which only CCVC words containing 'st', 'sp' and 'sl' are included, or an auditory discrimination activity in which only pictures depicting words starting with /k/ or /t/ are included)
• Print flashcards of all included targets, with or without visual mnemonics to support successful recognition
• Use a sophisticated testing facility to test and record the accuracy and reaction times of students using the software to establish progress levels and determine areas of weakness
• Provide activities for use by clients at home

The MusicLanguage Series

This software:

• provides interactive musical fun to enhance Speech, Language, Emergent Literacy and Musical skills in the early years
• incorporates songs, raps, dances, play-alongs, games and stories to develop listening, vocabulary, sentence structure, articulation, communication, self-expression, phonological awareness, alphabet skills, musical skills and music appreciation
• considers levels of complexity
• incorporates functionality
• is ideal for use at Home and in Early Years settings, Early Primary and Music Classrooms, Speech Pathology and Early Intervention Programmes