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What specialists are telling us about Phonomena...

“The three children who progressed well were quite a surprise to me.”

Julie Andrews
Special Needs Coordinator
Speech & Language Therapy Dept, Northampton Primary Care Trust, Northants

Works with children between 7 and 11 years old who are on the autistic spectrum.

I found the children generally enjoyed the games. Several children have asked when we can 'play' it again!

Helen Daly, BSc, Reg MRCSLT
State Registered Speech & Language Therapist
Wakefield MDC Primary Speech & Language Unit, Wakefield, West Yorkshire

Works in a mainstream school with children aged 5 to 12, whose difficulties include severe phonological difficulties, dyspraxia, and specific language impairment.

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“The software highlighted the areas/sounds that my adult client found particularly difficult and more importantly helped him focus on the difference between the vowel sounds which were a real problem. I am amazed at the progress he continues to make in this area and I am sure this due in part that he had to focus so hard in the exercises. I am surprised at how well my adult client did, given the nature of his difficulties.”

Frances Girling, MRCSLT
Voluntary Tutor
Adult Better Basic Skills Unit
Tavistock, Devon

Works with adults lacking basic skills, many with dyslexic type difficulties.

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“Fundamentally I thought the programme has great potential and would certainly use it.”

Judy Harris, MRCSLT, MASLTIP
Independent Speech and Language Therapist
Hertfordshire

Works with paediatric caseload, aged 0-16, largely consisting of speech and language delays and disorders.

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“The two children who followed the programme for 4 weeks, both showed improvement in their listening skills.

“A” showed obvious improvement in general listening skills over the trial period. He followed instructions more quickly by the end of the trial, and was better at recognising differences in the school spelling tests. He was able to attend for longer periods to someone speaking to him, and was more reliably able to discriminate vowels from the exercises.

“T” showed a dramatic improvement in her general ability across the board. From being a child who would cry at the slightest challenge to her attention and listening, she is becoming more of classroom member in her mainstream school. She is now able to follow classroom instructions at the 50% level, previously she rarely could recall and act. Her piano teacher, who did not know she was on the trial, commented that there had been a dramatic change in her listening and ability to follow rhythm. She has also begun to develop some reasoning skills, this was noted during the trial exercises, she listened to the target sound and was starting to predict where her cursor should go dependent on the sound the first gonk made. This behaviour started to show itself at the 2 1/2 week stage. As her scores increased she gained in confidence and co-operative determination.”

Theresa Drake, MRSCLT
Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Buckinghamshire

Works in the mainstream school setting, with children who have physical difficulties and those who have language disorders.

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“My clients actually liked the software and I think it has real clinical value. ‘Thumbs up’ from the pupils!!”

Marian Ward of Braintree
Senior Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Maldon and South Chelmsford Primary Care Trust, Notley Speech and Language Centre, Notley High (comprehensive l) School Braintree, Essex.

Works with secondary age pupils who have a specific language disorder, frequently with accompanying severe dyslexia.

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“I liked the game. Pupils like computers and there was a definite motivating force there. I also felt that the support given by yourself for the trial was very useful. We never felt alone!!!!”

Alison Hodson
Special Schools Coordinator
Speech and Language Therapy, Hillingdon Primary Care Trust.

Works with a variety of students in the moderate to severe learning difficulties range.

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“I am writing to confirm to you that we would be pleased to distribute your quality 'Phonomena' software in Australia. We have had a positive response from the two people [educational software evaluators] I sent the demo copies to. Immediately they identified particular people who would be interested in your product”.

Special Needs Education Consultant
East West Computers, Victoria, Australia

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“They like it and get a real buzz from it. It’s good. They’re progressing. I would continue to use it if it were available….&….would recommend it to other SENCO’s and classroom teachers"

Linsey M.
Special Needs Coordinator
Headington Primary, Oxford

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"We used Phonomena for about one month. Three children used it for twenty minutes twice weekly. After training, I observed some improvements in remembering items on an alliteration task and in manipulating phonemes. One child had been dropped from the project, however, as he couldn’t remember who had said what. Two children also needed lots of positive reinforcement to persist when they got lots of responses incorrect. It did seem to be effective and I would feel very happy to let a teaching assistant carry on doing Phonomena, once the children have been assessed as having reasonable auditory memory etc."

Ann Forrester
Speech & Language Therapist
Swindon Primary Care Trust

working in mainstream primary education

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“Both children thoroughly enjoyed using the programme.”

Brigid C.
MRCSLT.
St Catherine's School, Ventnor, Isle of Wight

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“I am aware of the enormous potential in computers and would like to think that they could become a part of my work and materials.”

Rebecca M. MRCSLT, MASLTIP, CPSM.
Independent SLT
Berkshire

Works with children with autism, subtle social communication difficulties, cleft palate, and severe language & phonological disorders

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“The programme is well structured in the foundation skills of phonological awareness and I can see it being a useful tool in helping to develop these skills. I can see Phonomena filling a special need in the remedial market, in fact, I think it is a viable alternative to FastForword”. [FastForward is Scientific Learning Corporation Inc’s (NASDAQ Ticker SLC) flagship product]

Geoff Kaye
CompuEd, ‘The World’s Best Reading Software’ Perth, W. Australia

Abbreviations code:

MRCSLT: Member Royal College of Speech Language Therapists
MASLTIP: Member Association Speech Language Therapists Independent Practice
CPSM: Council for Professional Supplement of Medicine (also more currently known as HPC: Health Profession Council)

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