Spotlight Testimonials

I purchased HearBuilder Sequencing to help my 11-year-old twin daughters who struggle with autism. They are several years behind in their ability to communicate,and are currently in speech therapy. This product is especially appealing to my girls because ot it computer based and it progresses at their own speed. They have literally spent several hours at a time practicing these sequencing cards, as advancing to the next level is a great motivating reinforcer. The arcade games that they could spend their earned tokens on were a lot of fun for them, especially the frog jump. The only improvement I would suggest would be to allow the settings to be changed after a child starts the program. It would also be great if the Home Edition also had the feature that allowed the pictures to be turned off, which is currently only available with the Professional package. My girls are both visual learners, and frequently depend too much on visual clues from the pictures to get the right answer, rather that paying attention to the spoken words to find the answer, as their ability to “visualize” what is being spoken to them is very weak due to their autism. Overall, I am very pleased with this product and I plan to purchase similar products in the future.

I only purchased this software this summer and began using it the last 6 days during the start of the fall 2011-2012 academic school year with my elementary SL/I students, but… I love it! I have unlimited student usage and programing capabilities and it the software maintains all of my data for sharing at PST’s, PPT’s or parent conferences. But more importantly, the program is extremely user friendly for my students regardless of their reading level and/or ability level because of it’s hierarchial presentation and imbedded scaffoliding so that if a student begins to struggle at one level or with a skill the program backs up and provides additional practice, positive modeling, and drill to help the student move forward.

The variety of activities keep my kids engaged while challenging them.

I have used this in both one-on-one sessions and with a class of 10 on a Smart Board. It works well both ways. The first level (Toy Room) was harder to keep attention of a group, but as soon as we made it on to the second level (Toy Machine), all the kids were so excited to see what toy came out of the machine! The class now tells me they “love to follow directions!”

Although my son has only used it once he loved it. It was challenging but fun, which made him want to pay attention to it. Great software!

Hi, Love the product and my ASD son happily does the words, closure and details. It appears that the numbers have become a bit hard a bit too quickly but that is an area of his problems. The real problem is in the WH questions – they are too hard right away. I would have thought that the first couple of levels would have had a lot less instruction and a lot less answer options to choose from. Having got to level 20 so far in words, he still can’t get off level 1 in WH. Just a thought otherwise a brilliant program.

I ordered this DVD for my 6 year old son who has auditory processing disorder, and he took to it right away. He is very visual and liked the animations very much. At first we sat him down in front of the computer to do the exercises, but within a short time, he was opening the program and doing the drills on his own. He’s learning and doesn’t realize it, because he’s having so much fun. I’m sure there’s a parental bias on my part, but since he started using this program, I feel that he has had a significant improvement in his listening skills in general, and a huge improvement specifically in his ability to follow directions. I plan on getting the other 3 DVDs in the series.

This is the 3rd product in the series that I have purchased. Seems to be good practice for my kids and a good product.

Excellent product! I was concerned how this would work because I’m a school-based SLP with only one computer & I have a group of 3 students working on following directions. This software is designed for 1 player at a time & adjusts its level of difficulty based on the student’s responses – so in a school setting, that would mean either having 3 students alternate turns on one level (which is what I have to do for time sake) – or – allowing each student to complete independent levels in their own “seat” (i.e., there are 10 directives per level – so with one computer, that would be a long wait time for 2 other students!). So here’s how I’ve adapted it to my setting: During a typical session addressing following temporal directions, I will use real manipulatives & verbally say the directions using the same format as the software (i.e., Put ____ in the box, before you put ____ in the box.; Before you put ____ in the box, put ____ in the box.), etc. The software makes my lesson planning a breeze b/c I just practice the same type of directives that are reinforced by the software. My students are motivated to work with me because they want to “play the game” on the computer – which is developing the same skill & they want to “win” that game & are seeing how the skills I’m teaching apply directly to their “world” (i.e., games), so they’re motivated to learn during direct instruction. I also provide visual cues by writing directives on the board & having the group work to figure out which directive is first & which is second. I’m hoping to phase out my direct instruction over time & to adapt my directions so that they resemble directives they’d hear in the classroom (i.e., “Before you get out your books and open them to page 20, turn in your assignment on my desk.”) This product is excellent!

This is a great software game to help kids hear the sounds in words. Both my kids 4 and 7 love it.