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.

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

The Building Language Series by Words Work

The resources include:

• Building Language: Word Meanings (book and CD) A language programme to build understanding and recall of words by strengthening semantic processing.
• Building Language: Word Sounds (book) A language programme to build recognition and production of speech sounds and letters within words.
• Building Language: Community Cards (photo cards) 100 colour pictures around 5 semantic community themes.

Online Cued Articulation

During the course, participants learn:

• The 26 consonant and 20 vowel cues
• How speech sounds are made and thus how the cues relate to the articulatory features of sounds
• (if the "Aboriginal Course" is selected) the sounds of aboriginal languages, the cues for these sounds, and how Cued Articulation can be readily applied to working with aboriginal students
• ideas for applying Cued Articulation to their routine classroom practice

Spelfabet

The Spelfabet materials are explicit, systematic synthetic phonics resources by speech pathologist Alison Clarke. They aim to strengthen phonemic awareness and spelling pattern knowledge. All materials are available as PDF downloads in either Comic Sans or Victorian Modern Cursive font. PCS symbols are used to illustrate vocabulary in the workbooks, making them suitable for all ages including teenagers and adults with poor decoding.

The materials include:

• Workbooks designed for Tier 2 and Tier 3 decoding intervention, particularly with students with language difficulties who need very fine-grained materials. The workbooks explicitly target spellings of CVCs, CVCCs, CCVCs, vowels, consonants, homophones and spelling overlaps, and finally multisyllable words.
• Word-building games broken up into the same stages as the workbooks, designed for 2-6 players.
• A movable alphabet of the "first 100 spellings" - why teach 100 first words when you can teach 100 first spellings and use them to make thousands of words? - with suggested beginning teaching sequences.

Looking Learning

Looking Learning is an Australian made, web-based resource created by Melissa Karydas. Melissa's background is physiotherapy and she developed Looking Learning over a 10 year period in response to the family challenge of a daughter born with a language disorder. The resultant resource is a uniquely configured, extensive online visual dictionary with more than 7000 words and phrases. The materials are intended to assist the teaching of English to ESL students, and to assist students with language difficulties.

The key features of the website include:

• A full range of words needed for good comprehension - all word types available
• Non-ambiguous images conveying clear word meaning
• Engaging imagery to encourage good memory retention
• Words able to be sourced in both their suffix and prefix forms
• Audio pronunciation buttons
• A "Picture sentence" function - see an entire sentence in pictures.
• A simple navigations system for all website functions

Behaviour Zen

Resources include books, apps, workshops (online and face to face) and consultancy services covering:

• Positive Behaviour Support Strategies for students with:
  • Aggressive Behaviour
  • Anxiety
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Oppositional and Defiant Behaviour
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Being Cybersafe and Cybersmart
• Emotional Regulation

There are also a range of free resources including downloadable booklets and videos designed for parents, child care professionals, educators and health professionals supporting children with a range of disabilities. This includes Down's Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Emotional and Behavioural Disorders, Central Auditory Processing Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Intellectual Disability, ADD/ADHD and Foetal Alcohol Syndrome. They cover a range of practical strategies which educators and parents can use at home and school to develop the child's skills.