A CD-ROM program designed to develop early reading and writing skills of special children

A PC program for preschool children and upwards

Featuring:

simple to use so that even very young children can  control the program

plenty of positive reinforcement.

teaching the child to spell their name.

real life pictures, sounds and videos of zoo animals.

videos that can enlarged (processor dependent).

introduction of early reading vocabulary to increase the child's sight vocabulary.

option of choosing an animal to go with a predefined sentence (e.g. "I like the ..."). The child is then asked to click on the words of the sentence as they are asked for.

options of writing sentences from a simple selection of words. These can then be jumbled up and the child asked to recreate the sentence by clicking on the words as they are asked for

Sentences can be printed with animal illustrations.

The program provides uncluttered screens, uses large screen fonts, and rewards success at every stage.

Price: US$12 (approx. NZ$17) plus CD production cost, shipping and handling.

Pentium processor, 32 MB RAM, 8x speed CD-ROM, 16 bit sound card. 20 MB of disk space. However these are bare minimum requirements and will probably limit the functionality of Kevin Goes to the Zoo.
Graphics requirements: A graphics card that can display 32 bit colour (true colour) or higher. All modern graphics cards are capable of this colour depth.