Safety Skills Reader

Essential everyday safety skills in the home and community

Safety Skills Reader is ideal for self-study for the teen or young adult reading at a second grade level or below. Its carefully conceived and well-illustrated stories cover 26 scenarios and a wide variety of essential everyday safety skills in the home and the community that need to be mastered before taking on the challenge of independent living.

Each four- to six-page story is vividly illustrated in an appealingly contemporary graphic-novel style with adult characters. The easy-to-read stories are aimed at the transition student about to leave home upon graduation. Illustrations are age-appropriate and engaging. The stories are designed so that parents can read them aloud, although some readers will be able to tackle them independently. Covered spiralbound book, 162 pages, 2008.

Story titles include:

Safety Skills Reader Software features relevant scenarios that are read aloud to the student by professional narrators. The text is highlighted by word, by line, or by complete sentence. The graphics are plentiful, contemporary, and age-appropriate. A comprehension test at the end of each story is also read aloud to the user, allowing for many hours of independent study. An optional hint feature directs the user to the answer page to check responses. The student can access the software with or without your help by mouse, touchscreen, IntelliKeys, or single switch. A unified management system helps you quickly review or print out user performance data. You can determine reading lists and set the options that best suit the student's learning style. Choose speech narration either word-by-word or as naturally occurring speech. Then select the text highlighting approach and assign tests.

The software is intuitive and easy to use. For detailed instructions, refer to the PDF User's Guide or the Help Menu built into the software. Choose from two delivery options: on disc or direct download.

Your purchase includes a Single Family License. Software is Windows (XP and higher), Mac (OS X, PowerPC and Intel), touchscreen, and single-switch compatible.

Safety Skills Reader is also available as part of the Read to Learn Book Library, a transition preparedness program with eight titles, and the Read to Learn Software Bundle, which includes all titles using Attainment's eReader Software — winner of the 2009 Bessie Award for best in educational software!