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Printed on sturdy, heavy stock paper, these awards will become keepsakes for the youngsters who receive them. General titles allow for personalized messages that are sure to build self-esteem. 8-1/2″ x 5-1/2″. 25 per pack.

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The Leadership Summit on Learning From Other Leaders DVD with Bill Hybels

These top rated talks on DVD provide an outstanding, affordable leadership development resource for you and your team. Selected from a decade of the best sessions at the Leadership Summit–the premier leadership training event off its kind–these presentations are ideal for anyone with leadership gifts, skills or responsibilities. Relive the Summit’s best moments and create a teaching library you and your team can draw on for years to come. Includes 5 Sessions on DVD

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Clouds A Paws Science Adventure American Sign Language accessible software

Clouds: A Paws Science Adventure is animated science software for children, ages 8 to 13. Three sections highlight information about nine cloud types, how they are formed, and what they are made of. The weather report gives an exciting view of basic weather events and how they come to be. Accompanying each cloud type are 3 questions to test your knowledge before you can enter daring rescues or fun-filled games/activities. All communication is both signed in ASL and spoken in English by Paws the Pilot.

Did you know that every type of cloud has unique characteristics? Join Pilot Paws as the Co-Pilot to explore this commonly seen but little understood sky phenomenon! This fun-filled, yet informative, adventure shares startling cloud and weather facts, offers opportunities to test your knowledge, and rewards learning with exciting games and the chance to witness death-defying air rescues. All communication is both signed in ASL and spoken in English by Paws the Pilot.

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American Sign Language Tales and Games for Kids Woof Woof Way

The ASL Tales and Games CD-ROM series follows Paws, the signing dog, and his friends as they explore their neighborhood. Each piece of software contains 3 community-focused stories and 10 games. Neighborhood children are deaf, hard of hearing, or multiply disabled, and represent different ethnic groups. Signing and/or audio are options for accessing information. Recommended for ages 4-8.
This CD, Woof Woof Way, focuses on events that take place on one street in Pawstown, Woof Woof Way. The stories are original and written to promote good English literacy, while simultaneously teaching important aspects of ASL. Each story can be viewed continuously, without the child needing to manipulate the mouse, or the child can control the story himself. Miriam Morrow, a deaf actress, signs each sentence dressed as Paws, the signing dog. Any word that is colored blue can be seen individually signed. Each story has three games, which reinforce skills in categorization, memory, spelling, literacy, visual processing, and creativity.

The CD also contains a picture dictionary of the sign/English vocabulary used in the stories. The dictionary pictures can be printed. Children also can visit the video store on Woof Woof Way to see three ASL stories.

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ASL IDRT Hispanic Heritage Set Spanish and American Sign Language accessible Product

This unique package of information contains everything you need to teach a unit or help preserve Deaf Hispanic Heritage and Culture. The kit includes:A. 5 CD-ROMs Each can be viewed in English or Spanish text and audio with ASL video translations:

1. Tomados de la Mano**-CD I:Three folktales from Spanish-speaking countries–”The Laughing Skull,” “The Four Brothers’ Adventure,” and “How Birds Got Bright Feathers.”
2. Tomados de la Mano**-CD II:Three folktales from Spanish-speaking countries–”The Singing Sack,” “Juan Bobo and the Three-Legged Pot,” and “The Singing Toad.”
3. Sue

BASI Basic Achievement Skills Inventory Q Local Comprehensive with Student Summary Report Starter Kit

The BASI Comprehensive Test is comprised of six timed subtests: Vocabulary (10 minutes); Spelling (10 minutes); Language Mechanics (10 minutes); Reading Comprehension (30 minutes); Math Computation (20 minutes); and Math Application (35 minutes). Each of the subtests can be administered independently or in any combination. Please refer to the Pearson Assessments web site for additional information about the contents of the Starter Kit, Product # 00289.

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Con SIGN tration 3 American Sign Language software game

Con-SIGN-tration 3 is the third in a set of 4 game CD-ROMs that challenge reading and memory skills by requiring the player to match ASL pictures to English words that disappear if no match is made. Each CD game covers 10 different categories and related vocabulary. Two levels of challenge make the games appropriate for almost any age player. The games keep score of the number of clicks and matches and randomize every time they are played. Con-SIGN-tration 3 covers the following categories: Transportation, Dress Yourself, On the Move, School Days, School Stuff, Play Time, Hobbies, Grammar, Body, and Arts.
* Windows 98 SE
* 166 MHz Pentium
* 16x CD-ROM Drive
* 32 MB memory
* Color SVGA monitor that supports True Color (24 bit)

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Paws Signs Stories American Sign Language Accessible Product

Paws Signs Stories, award-winning computer software for children, contains 5 original stories and 15 educational games (3 for each story) with each signed in American Sign Language. Stories teach important features of ASL when signed. Paws is recommended for children, ages 2-7, although we have found that older elementary-age deaf children enjoy the program as well. Linda Bove, the deaf actress on Sesame Street, dressed as Paws the dog, signs the stories, directions, and game instructions. Signing and/or audio are options for accessing information. The five stories in Paws Signs Stories are original. They utilize strategies found successful in teaching early reading skills, such as repeated phrases, patterned language and predictable structure. Each story also teaches something about ASL. Each story has three games (i.e., 15 in all), each focusing on a different skill, such as visual memory, visual sequencing, literacy, spelling, math, and creativity. The ASL classifier for “car” is used in the story I Love My Car. The story also focuses on opposites, like “in” and “out,” “over” and “under,” “wet” and “dry.”We learn how location affects the telling of a story in ASL in I Can Play Outside. In I Like Many Things, a girl talks about all of the things that she likes. Each thing is signed using the same handshape in ASL, the “1″ handshape, so some of the signs are similar and encourage the use of visual discrimination skills. Time to Wash teaches addition, subtraction, and colors as a little girl hangs clothes on the clothesline. And I Walked Some More follows a little boy as he explores the zoo. His descriptions of the animals shows how facial expression is crucial when using adjectives in ASL. Minimum System Requirements: *Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP *166 MHz Pentium *4x CD-ROM Drive

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Classroom Calc Desktop Calculator

The 12-digit tilted big display and large keys make this dual-power calculator easy to use. Features 24 keys and includes functions for correcting errors, basic operations, and percents. Operating instructions included. Measures 9.7 x 12.7 x 3 cm. For ages 5-8.

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Ultimate American Sign Language Dictionary

The Ultimate American Sign Language Dictionary is the first sign language dictionary on CD-ROM to be totally accessible to deaf users. All instructions and information on the CD, including definitions, are provided in ASL video clips, as well as in text and audio. Drawings of all signs are also shown. Locate words by typing the English or by using drop-menus to describe the signs. This is a 3-CD set!
The Ultimate American Sign Language Dictionary includes over 2,700 signs and 7,000 English word equivalents. There are approximately 15,000 files of pictures, text, and video. Spell-check is available in English and parameter-check in ASL. The dictionary shows English words that share a single sign (e.g., large, big) and signs that share a single English equivalent (e.g., run).
Signs are shown in pictures and video. Words and their definitions are shown in text, video and audio. This is the only dictionary on the market that has ALL OF THE DEFINITIONS in ASL!

Help files include information about the history of ASL and English and how to use the dictionary. This is a reference MUST for every ASL user.

Minimum System Requirements:

* Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP
* Pentium
* 166 MHz
* 4x CD-ROM Drive
* 32 MB memory
* 120 MB free disk space
* Color SVGA monitor that supports True Color (16 bit)

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Verbal Words of Wisdom Dispenser LLD

Parents feel good when they can say something “smart” to their kids, something that can help define their ethical makeup and guide them through the challenges and struggles of life.

The problem is “Words of Wisdom” are hard to come up with, difficult to remember and even tougher to remember to say them to your children. With the touch of a button the Secrets of Life & Words of Wisdom, LLD delivers secrets of life, motivations, and knowledge on a consistent basis exposing a child’s mindset to belief systems of people that have lived passionate and fulfilled lives.

By listening to mantras of those that have attained much happiness and lived inspiring lives, as well as adopting certain beliefs and values about failure, success and self-confidence, children develop a platform on which to make decisions in their life!

Place the LLD on the kitchen table! As the family eats, create your own rules as to when the button is pushed as well as who pushes it. It will repeat the same wisdom each time the button is pushed during a 24-hour cycle. The next day it will give a new jolt of knowledge.

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Understanding Learning Disabilities DVD

How could a child be a top math student yet not be able to read? Why can another child read well but not be able to write a paragraph that makes sense? While watching children being taught new ways to learn, this program offers expert insight into the nature of learning disabilities, why learning disabilities may also be accompanied by ADHD or social disorders, and what can be done to help children learn to compensate and succeed. (16 minutes, color)

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Clouds A Paws Science Adventure American Sign Language accessible software

Clouds: A Paws Science Adventure is animated science software for children, ages 8 to 13. Three sections highlight information about nine cloud types, how they are formed, and what they are made of. The weather report gives an exciting view of basic weather events and how they come to be. Accompanying each cloud type are 3 questions to test your knowledge before you can enter daring rescues or fun-filled games/activities. All communication is both signed in ASL and spoken in English by Paws the Pilot.

Did you know that every type of cloud has unique characteristics? Join Pilot Paws as the Co-Pilot to explore this commonly seen but little understood sky phenomenon! This fun-filled, yet informative, adventure shares startling cloud and weather facts, offers opportunities to test your knowledge, and rewards learning with exciting games and the chance to witness death-defying air rescues. All communication is both signed in ASL and spoken in English by Paws the Pilot.

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Sign Find Vacations

Sign Find – Vacations is the first in a series of software products that focuses on vocabulary expansion in both American Sign Language and English. This version of Sign Find contains 14 pictures of vacations that a child might experience. Each picture is teeming with objects related to that vacation. As your child moves the moue over the picture, it will change to a “paw” every time the item is clickable. Once an item is clicked, a video appears with Paws the dog giving the sign for that item. The English word equivalent is displayed as well. There are over 550 vocabulary words to learn! Threee games reinforce learning of new vocabulary too!

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ASL IDRT Hispanic Heritage Set Spanish and American Sign Language accessible Product

This unique package of information contains everything you need to teach a unit or help preserve Deaf Hispanic Heritage and Culture. The kit includes:A. 5 CD-ROMs Each can be viewed in English or Spanish text and audio with ASL video translations:

1. Tomados de la Mano**-CD I:Three folktales from Spanish-speaking countries–”The Laughing Skull,” “The Four Brothers’ Adventure,” and “How Birds Got Bright Feathers.”
2. Tomados de la Mano**-CD II:Three folktales from Spanish-speaking countries–”The Singing Sack,” “Juan Bobo and the Three-Legged Pot,” and “The Singing Toad.”
3. Sue