Webber® HearBuilder® Phonological Awareness is the all NEW innovative, evidence-based, educational software program that gives students a systematic way to improve auditory and phonological awareness skills. Students will have a rockin' good time learning as they earn band members and instruments for their rockband, The Phonemix.

In the Home and Professional Editions, children

• Complete increasingly difficult sound awareness tasks
• Demonstrate understanding in nine areas
  • Sentence Segmentation
  • Syllable Blending
  • Syllable Segmentation
  • Rhyming
  • Phoneme Blending
  • Phoneme Segmentation and Identification
  • Phoneme Deletion
  • Phoneme Addition
  • Phoneme Manipulation

In the Professional edition, educators

• Individualize each student's program
• Set levels of difficulty for each activity
• Identify and print learning objectives for all levels
• Add low or high volume background noise at any level
• Monitor and track progress for an unlimited number of students
• Track all relevant data
• Customize and print reports

See below to find out if we will be in your area. If not, click here to take a FREE online CEU course about auditory processing and HearBuilder®.

Date	State	City	Show
5/22	New York	Brooklyn	New York Department of Education MAVA, Language Lab, & Auditory Memory Presentation
6/12 - 6/13	South Carolina	Greenville	Upstate Technology Conference
6/28	Florida	Tampa	Summer Institute HearBuilder, Language Lab, & START-IN Presentation

Phonological awareness is the ability to hear and judge the structure of spoken language. It includes the ability to identify, blend, segment, and manipulate sounds. Spoken language can be divided into words, words can be divided into syllables, syllables can be divided into sounds, and sounds can be substituted to make new words.

Research indicates that lower phonological awareness performance directly relates to early reading abilities. The U.S. National Reading Panel declared phonemic awareness (part of phonological awareness) as one of the five building blocks of reading in Put Reading First (2001). Then, the U.S. National Reading Panel Report Summary (2002) determined that teaching phonemic awareness is “effective in improving reading with all types of children under a variety of teaching conditions” (p. 3).

Children must become aware that words can be broken into smaller units in order to give meaning to learning alphabetical letters, which eventually translates into decoding skills.

HearBuilder® Professional Edition	Earobics® Clinician/Specialist
Add an unlimited number of students	Add 12 students and 1 guest
Plays directly from the disk—no installation necessary	Requires installation
Specific and measurable learning objectives for every level in the program	General learning objectives for groups of levels
Select specific levels of play within each activity	Select play in groups of levels
Ability to add high or low volume background noise to any task at any level	Background noise is preset to specific levels and activities
Choose exact "start" and "end" levels for each activity	Choose a group of levels as a starting point
Levels and data collection are in base-10 format, with 80% as advancing criteria: always 8/10 (80%)	Levels and data collection are inconsistent: sometimes 3/3 sometimes 4/4, to advance to next level
Objectives are printable from the program and listed in the Instruction Booklet	Objectives in Clinic Resource Manual only (sold separately)
Compatible with Windows® computers that run Windows XP, Vista, 2000, and Windows 7 and Macintosh® computers that run OSX	Windows®: Not designed for use with Windows Vista Macintosh®: Not designed for use with OSX or Intel™ Mac Systems
$149.95 for 1 CD for ages 4-11	$329.00 for Step 1 CD for ages 4-7 $329.00 for Step 2 CD for ages 7-10 (total of $658 to cover ages 4-10)

The program is ideal for children in grades PreK - 5, who have difficulty counting syllables, rhyming, identifying sounds in words, or with other phonological awareness skills.

It is based on literature and theory-based knowledge of auditory processing disorders. Additionally A study involving 68 preschool through fourth grade students in Clark County School District (Las Vegas, NV) found students with and without IEPs achieved statistically significant gains in phonological awareness skills after using HearBuilder Phonological Awareness. Click here to read more about auditory processing and phonological awareness.

Yes. A majority of the objectives found in the HearBuilder® software programs are aligned to many of the educational standards in your state. Click here to see the alignments.

Yes, Phonological Awareness Home Edition has been awarded The National Parenting Center's 2010 Seal of Approval and then Tech and Learning Award of Excellence.

If you are using the Professional Edition, you may change a child's settings at any time. If you have a Home Edition, you cannot change the settings after beginning the program. To change settings on the Home Edition, you have to delete the child from the program and enter him/her as a new player.

We recommend using HearBuilder® Phonological Awareness 15-20 minutes each day until your child completes the program. However, you can choose the length and frequency of use that works best for your child or student.

HearBuilder® Phonological Awareness runs almost completely from your CD-ROM drive. The program only stores student information on your hard drive. Students using the program should play on the same computer each time in order to store data from session to session.

There could be two reasons why this is occurring:

1. Your students are NOT playing on the same computer every day. Super Duper Software saves the student’s data to the computer’s hard drive. The student must use the same computer in order to track and store data over time.
2. Your computer may erase the data stored in some folders nightly or weekly. Change your settings so that your computer does not erase your Flash Shared Objects Folder. Contact your system administrator for further assistance.

Yes, you can use the program on several different computers. Please remember that running the program requires that the CD-ROM be in the CD or DVD drive on the computer; thus, you will not be able to run the program on several different computers at the same time if you have only one disk. Also, remember that each child's data files are stored on the hard drive of the computer. The child's data will not appear if he/she uses a different computer. If you need multiple CDs, volume discounts are available. Click here for more information.

It will work with Windows® computers that run Windows XP, Vista, 2000 and Windows 7, and Macintosh® computers that run OSX.

Yes. Click here to see a video on how to use HearBuilder® with your SMART Board.

Before removing a CD-ROM from its case, release the CD by pushing the button in the center of the disk.

All of Super Duper's CD-ROMs come with step-by-step instructions for running a CD-ROM on Windows and Mac computers. Instructions are usually on the inside back cover of a book, or if the CD comes in a case, in the booklet inside the CD-ROM case.

All of Super Duper's CD-ROMs include system requirements. Click here for specific computer requirements.

No. Super Duper's CD-ROMs are not for use over a network. Since the hard drive saves each student's data, the student begins play on one particular computer and continues to play on the same computer throughout the program. This allows a continuous collection of student data in order to gain the most benefit from the Student Reports.

Yes. If you are planning for more than one student at a time to use the program, you will need a CD for each computer. The data collects on each computer's hard drive, and the computer needs the CD to run the program.

No. The hard drive stores the student's information, meaning the student must play on the same computer for every session for you to access previous sessions and data.

Make sure that the computer is not set on "Mute." If you are using headphones, unplug them and see if sound is coming from the computer. If so, your headphones may not be functioning properly.

If you find that your computer is not set on "Mute" and the headphones are working properly (and you still do not have sound), try closing the CD and restarting the application. Please call or email Super Duper for technical help if all these steps fail to provide sound.

The Home Edition is $69.95 and the Professional Edition is $149.95.