Quick start with Bungalow programs

Step-by-Step instructions for showing the patient the programs

(Print these tips so you can refer to them later)

1. Pick the most appropriate programs.
Page 3 of the Bungalow Catalog lists the program by treatment area (symptom).

Or you can use the Therapy Advisor to choose programs by selecting the symptoms or deficits the patient would like to work on.
Read more about the Therapy Advisor below or on our website:

2.     Read the program description in the catalog.
If you know what the program can help with, and how it works, you’ll get more out of the trial.

3.    Start with the easiest lesson of the easiest program.
Each program has multiple lessons (or difficulty levels). Each lesson has multiple exercises. The first lesson (level) is usually the easiest.

5. Look at a sample of each lesson.
Don’t try to do every exercise in a lesson. Instead, do just a few exercises. If the patient gets them all correct easily, then try the next lesson.

6.     Repeat 2 - 5 for each program.

 

Quick-Start instructions, for each program

Aphasia Tutor 1

Works on Reading, Spelling and Written word-retrieval the letter & word level.

	Easiest Level	Most Challenging

Aphasia Tutor 2

 Provides phrase and sentence level cueing and the survivor types or chooses a word.

	Easiest Level	Most Challenging

Aphasia Tutor 1 & 2 (Spanish version)

Spanish version of Aphasia Tutor 1 & 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aphasia Tutor 1 & 2 +Outloud

These programs provide unlimited practice with:

• Spelling (from the single letter up to the word level)
• Written Word-retrieval (single letter up to word)
• Auditory Comprehension
• Reading Comprehension (from letter up to sentence)

	Easiest Level	Most Challenging

Aphasia Tutor 2

 Provides phrase and sentence level cueing and the survivor types or chooses a word.

	Easiest Level	Most Challenging

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aphasia Tutor 3:  Story Reading

Improves reading comprehension from the short paragraph up story level.

Survivor reads a paragraph (or longer, up to story length) and then answers multiple choice questions.

Reading therapy  for all skill levels

• Four (4) different reading lengths (Short paragraph up to book chapters)
• Provides therapuetic hints if survivor gets the answer wrong: highlights the section of reading material thas contains the answer. Then gives the patient another opportunity to answer the question
• The Reading Cursor highlights one word at at time for them to make reading easier.   (see screen, to right)

 

Over 400 questions and 20 different stories, ranging in length from single paragraph to several pages.   Stories include excerpts from...

• Sherlock Holmes
• Little Women
• The Call of the Wild
• Alice in Wonderland
• And many more...

Within each level, the stories are arranged in increasing difficulty level.

Aphasia Tutor 4: Functional Reading Speech Therapy software for reading comprehension and problem solving. Provides realistic reading material, such as medicine labels, want-ads, and television guides. Audio/Visual feedback is also provided to the user. Lesson 4, with intellihint. Appropriate for:  Reading comprehension   Functional reading  Problem solving 6 Difficulty levels Reading Schedules Reading Newspapers Reading Bills Locating Services Reading Product Warning Labels Reading About Food Intelli-hints help guide patient to the correct answer if needed. They give the patient only as much assistance as she or he needs to get the right answer.

Categories and Words

Provides therapy practice with understanding what objects belong in different groups

Teaches patient which words or concepts belong together (apple, orange, banana: all fruit).  At the higher level, the patient just deduce what several objects have in common and what other objects might belong in that group.

200,000 questions
in 6 different difficulty lessons:

Match the word to its group  ex:, chicken is a:  country, bird, food, or building Match the group to the word: ex:,  which is a BIRD?  :  dolphin, hawk, chair, ice cream Pick the member that doesn't belong  ex:, chair, chicken, stool, bench) (see picture above) Pick the category based on a rule (e.g., "Chicken and pigeon are members, stool is not", is "bench a member?") Pick the category based on a memorized rule  (same as #4, but user must remember the rule) Deduce the mystery category This is very similar to the old word game "21 Questions" but is based on semantics (word meanings).  Patient is shown several words and must deduce their relationship, e.g., they are all furry mammals, or flowering trees, etc. Every lesson is a collection of up to 100 freshly created exercises. No two lessons are identical. Typical Uses Appropriate for high-level aphasia, TBI, and language-based learning disabilities.  Ages 12 to adult

Easiest Lesson   Lesson 5: Difficult

 

 

 

Direction Following (Written and Outloud)

Unlimited Treatment for:

• Auditory Comprehension
• Reading Comprehension
• Memory
• Sequencing

The patient reads and/or hears Directions which she then follows.

Video Tutorial 

Select it to start the video.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moriarty Mystery

For Cognition & Reasoning

Who has the evil Professor Moriarty poisoned?

The survivor view a diagram of a dinner table with several place-settings. Each place at the table has clues showing what Food, Drink, etc. is at some of the places at the table.She then uses deductive reasoning to determine what everyone is eating, drinking, etc. Once they know what everyone is drinking they then know who is being poisoned and solve the mystery.

Over 350,000 very challenging cognitive puzzles.

Click to view tutorial

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Numbers'n Sounds Helps the patient retrieve and speak numbers more clearly.

Displays any or all of the following cues: The number ( $456.23) The words for the number (four hundred and fifty-six...) Speak the words (above) as it displays them. Program records patient's speech and plays it back with the model speech so the patient for comparison.   Over 2,000 exercises and 10 difficulty levels, covering:  Counting numbers (1-10, 1-100,1-999)  Phone numbers  Time (11:00, etc.) at three difficulty levels)  Money at three difficulty levels.

Screenshot of the most challenging money lesson

Helps you speak numbers and read them aloud.

For example reading $12.45 aloud

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RedBar

Helps patients who have left or right neglect.  I.e., they ignore things to their left or right.

RedBar trains the patient to notice (or "attend to") their left or right side.

How it works

1. Reminds patient (verbally and visually) to click on the left or right side of the screen.
2. If they don't click the side of the screen, RedBar gives them a stronger reminder.
3. If they still fail to click the side, RedBar shows a black arrow to guide them to the side of the screen.

Redbar works best if you use it while using another program (a word processor, reading email, using another Bungalow Software therapy program, etc.)  RedBar helps them use the other program by reminding them to pay attention to the left or right side of the screen. So, where they're reading, it helps them find the beginning of each line or the end of each line (right neglect).

 

 

  

 

Sights 'n Sounds 1

Speech therapy software that improves articulation and  word retrieval.  

Therapy for all skill levels ...

Make the exercises easier or harder by changing which cues are provided: text, spoken model, picture (in picture lessons).  The more cues you choose to have shown, the easier the exercise is. If a cue is not shown, the patient can click on a button to see or hear it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sights 'n Sounds 2

Speech therapy software for articulation and word retrieval at the sentence level.   Useful for aphasia and oral/verbal Apraxia.

This program helps patients speak phrases or sentences by prompting them with one or more of the following Cues (hints):

• Picture or a written text such as a question or an answer.
• Model sentence. Program can be set to show the full sentence or only a portion of it or the sentence can be hidden.
• Play model sentence out loud.

Patients sees a model sentence  and  hears that sentence spoken (in a human voice), then speaks the sentence themselves. Patient then hears their speech, and the model speech for comparison.

With over 400 exercises, patients usually take several months to master the material.  Create your own content, for unlimited, customized therapy (in Pro and Deluxe versions).

Therapy for all skill levels ...

Make the exercises easier or harder by changing which cues are provided: text, spoken model, picture (in picture lessons).  The more cues you choose to have shown, the easier the exercise is. If a cue is not shown, the patient can click on a button to see or hear it.

5 Lessons, over 400 sentences.

 

1. Simple conversational phrases
   Model/Patient: I'm frustrated. I need help.
2. Describing pictures
   (See the screenshot at the upper right of this page)
3. Answering in the affirmative
   Model: Would you like to go out to eat?
   Patient: Yes, I would like to go out to eat.
4. Answering in the negative
   Model: Is it lunch time?
   Patient: No, it is not lunch time.
5. Interrogative reversal
   Model: My daughter is getting married.
   Patient: Is your daughter getting married?
6. Plus Custom Lessons

   Easily create your own lessons (in the Deluxe and Professional versions only)

Add your own words, pictures and sounds!

Add specialized conversational phrases, parts of speeches, sermons, phrases for common activities, playing cards, etc. Add up to 3 Custom lessons in the Deluxe version and up to 100 Custom lessons in the Professional version.  Easy to use - run it with the spacebar

Operate it with only a single key (spacebar) or the mouse. Anyone can use it. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SpeechPacer 

Helps improves speech clarity for patients who speak to quickly or too slowly.

 

Helps patient speak more slowly or more quickly, especially for patients who are talking so fast that their speech is not clear. In 2011, we increased the amount of material in this program by 400%, including Sherlock Holmes and famous American speeches (over 36,000 words, which should take a patient about 8 hours to work through the first time. Most patients read the same stories many, many times). Speech Pacer shows patient text to read and moves a text-highlighting cursor along to pace a user’s reading rate. Patient speaks each word, phrase, or sentence as it is highlighted. Users may select from the following options: Automatic (timed) cursor advance Manual advance (cursor moves when the right arrow is pressed) Word, phrase, or sentence highlighting Enlarged font (text) size. More product details..

Reading Moby Dick, pacing one word at at time   Appropriate for: Speech Intelligibility Voice/Breath support Oral Reading

 

 

 

 

   

Speech Sounds on Cue Speech therapy treatment software for articulation difficulty caused by apraxia of speech or other speech difficulties.

This software is especially helpful to those who need to hear and see a sound made, for example, patients with articulation difficulty, possibly due to speech apraxia (verbal or oral apraxia affecting speech). Provides multimedia full-motion video cues, for independent speech practice. Cues are for individual phonemes (sounds) as well as full words. 530 Exercises  Each exercise targets one word, divided into 20 consonant positions (see lower right).  For each exercise it provides: Color photo Auditory and written trigger phrase Written word Video clip of a speaker Records and plays back patient's voice for immediate feedback. Easy to use - Patient can run the entire program just by pressing the spacebar key, or can use the mouse. Appropriate for:  Articulation of speech  Apraxia/Dyspraxia  Speech Production Word-retrieval

Video demo 19 Lessons with 530 exercises.

We also have a similar, but more challenging program for higher-level patients who can repeat back words  just from hearing them but need to work on articulation or on word-retrieval:  Sights'n Sounds 1.

 

 

 

Synonyms, Antonyms, & Homonyms

Therapy software for moderate word-retrieval difficulty due to aphasia or other language disorder.

This program is for higher level word-retrieval ("word-finding") common in aphasia. It's a companion or follow-on to Aphasia Tutor 2.

How it works

Displays a prompt such as "Up is the opposite of ___". The patient chooses or types the correct answer. As the title suggests, has lessons where the patient finds a word that has the same meaning (Synonym), opposite meaning (Antonym) or finds another word that sounds the same (Homonym).

Highest levels are very challenging. The patient is given a definition. S/he must then match that to the definition of another word that sounds  the same.

15 Lessons of increasing difficulty:

1. Opposites (multiple choice)
2. Opposites (fill-in-the blank)
3. Opposites (multiple choice) - Harder
4. Opposites (fill-in-the blank) - Harder
5. Words with the same meaning (multiple choice)
6. Words with the same meaning (fillin)
7. Words with the same meaning (multiple choice) - Harder
8. Words with the same meaning (fillin) - Harder
9. Words with the same meaning (multiple choice) - Hardest
10. Words with the same meaning (fillin) - Hardest
11. Words that sound alike (multiple choice)
12. Words that sound alike (fillin)
13. Words that sound alike (Hard)
14. Words that sound alike (Harder)
15. Words that sound alike (Hardest)  [view sample]

Easiest level (#1)

BIG is the opposite of

1. small
2. large
3. bag
4. bug

(Answer: a. Small)

 

Most challenging level (#15) "precipitation is ___" which sounds like the word for : kitchen appliance which keeps food cold pants made with denim  the rule of royalty paper which assists route-finding Answer: C, because "the rule of royalty" is "Reign" which SOUNDS LIKE "rain". Precipitation is "rain").

Level 15: Match two definitions for different words that sound alike (whale and wail, in this case)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

Traffic Sign Tutor Tests recognition of traffic signs and functional responses to real-life scenarios on the road
Displays over 55 different standardized U.S. Traffic signs.  This program develops problem solving skills and driving skills.  Appropriate for Street sign recognition Problem solving Reading comprehension Pre-driving skills 2 Difficulty Levels Identifying traffic signs Situational awareness Selecting an appropriate response to a sign in a specific situation	Lesson 1: Recognizing Signs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Understanding WH-Questions This innovative  program provides practice with understanding various questions: Who, What, Wen, Where, Why, and How.

How it works Displays a question and up to 4 answers. Provides nearly unlimited therapy practice, with over 5,000 exercises. Patient reads a question and picks an appropriate answer. The Out Loud version speaks the question. Designed to be used independently by a geriatric survivor of stroke or other brain injury.  Change the difficulty by selecting how many choices to give the patient (2, 3, or 4)    Appropriate for: Reading Comprehension Understanding Who, What, Where (Wh) type words. Auditory Comprehension (+OutLoud version only)  Does the patient need to hear the questions? The Out Loud version speaks the questions.  Great for extra help or work on auditory comprehension.

1. Starts with a question 2. Gives a hint When the user answers incorrectly, the program give a hint.  In the screen picture, below, the hint is in blue.  In the example below, the user has incorrectly answered Father.  The hint explains why Father is the wrong answer.   3. Another hint If the user misses the question again, s/he gets an additional hint.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Understanding Questions +Out Loud (Listening activities)

Activates to work on Listening (and understanding) spoken WH Questions: who, what, when, where, why, and how.

Displays and speaks a question out loud (in a human voice) and shows up to 4 answers. Provides nearly unlimited therapy practice, with over 5,000 exercises.

Can be used independently, thanks to many special features (more info about those below). 

Every time a lesson is started, it's composed of up to 100 freshly created exercises. No two lessons are identical.