For Adults

"Auditrain” is a training programme designed to help CI users improve their communication skills. It contains twenty two individual lesson plans, each of which contains both synthetic and analytic exercises. The synthetic materials– question and answer exercises, lists of common sentences around a central theme, word matrices, and many other exercises – are designed to help CI users optimise the use of their systems in everyday situations.

Auditrain includes a Therapist and a User book, a Speaker cloth mask, postcards and playing cards.

Auditrain is available in English and US English.

“SpeechTrax” is a resource for clinicians to use with individuals for whom conventional speech tracking may not be appropriate. Based on Geoff Plant’s “Commtrac”, “SpeechTrax” features a modified version of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic story “The Tinderbox”. This engaging story is divided into 53 sections, each of which consists of brief phrases (averaging 8 words each) for a total of 200 words per section. “SpeechTrax” has been shown to be an effective and enjoyable approach to helping CI users develop and improve their communication skills.

Speechtrax includes a Therapist and a User book.

Speechtrax is available in English, Dutch, French, Polish, Romanian and Spanish.

“Hear at Home” is aimed at meeting the needs of people with cochlear implants who require training and support without easy or ready access to trained personnel. “Hear at Home” is designed for home use, using family members and/or friends as the talkers. The exercises provide the talker with detailed instructions as to how the materials should be presented. “Hear at Home” is divided into 10 separate sessions. In each session, a series of speech sounds are introduced in words and sentences. Other exercises are provided, which provide additional practice in the recognition of connected speech.

Hear at Home includes a Therapist and a User book.

Hear at Home is available in English, French, Romanian and Turkish.

“Syntrain” was created to meet the needs of a special group of adult clients – those who have poor reading skills. “Syntrain” is also useful for therapy with older children and teenagers. “Syntrain” has a series of pictorial exercises, which require little or no reading. Exercises involving spondees and trisyllables in isolation and in simple sentences, as well as picture-based sentence identification exercises are included.

Syntrain includes a Therapist and a User book.

Syntrain is available in English and Romanian.

“Analytika” is a collection of analytic test and training lists for use in testing and training adults and older children. Almost 600 lists are presented in a Word© format on a CD to allow for easy editing and printing. This means therapists can adjust the words to suit regional dialects etc. An instruction manual is provided in PDF format.

Analytika comes as a CD.

Analytika is available in English.

“An AR Sampler” contains a number of test and training resources applicable to day-to-day clinical work in speech pathology and audiology. The material is useful for both older children and adults with severe to profound hearing losses. “An AR Sampler” contains 8 different testing and training resources: consonant lists, Contentest, high frequency word lists, most frequent CVC lists, most frequent sentences lists, poems for younger children, poems for older children and a modified Speech Tracking story.

An AR Sampler comes as a CD with instructions.

An AR Sampler is available in English.

" Music Notes" is a resource for therapists and rehabilitation professionals. It provides clinicians with an overview of music and cochlear implants, and offers suggestions for how to enhance music experiences for adults with cochlear implants. Areas covered include early listening activities, music focus groups, and music making. "Music Notes" also provides a number of resources for use in clinical settings.

Music Notes Comes as 2 CDs containing the manual in pdf format and musical tracks for use in testing and training.

The CD is available in English.