How to evaluate speech therapy software trials Step-by-step instructions for evaluating which Bungalow software trials are appropriate for the patient. You may want to print these instructions to refer back to while evaluating the programs. - Pick the 5 or 10 most appropriate programs.
There are 20 programs (1 million exercises) on this CD. You probably don’t have time to try all of them.
Use the Bungalow catalog or the interactive, online Therapy Advisor. Page 3 of the catalog has the programs listed by therapy needs (Reading, Word Retrieval, etc.). The Therapy advisor (on the Bungalow website) recommends programs based on a short 4 minute interview. Read more about the Therapy Advisor below or on our website: www.BungalowSoftware.com/cd_therapy_advisor.htm
- Read the program description
If you know what the program can help with, and how it works, you’ll get more out of the trial. Bungalow’s catalog (Software for Speech & Language) has an overview of each program. There is an index (Product name to page #) on the back of the catalog. You can read the paper version or the version on the trial CD (they are the same).
- 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.
- 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. Read our detailed tips on evaluating each lesson.
- Repeat steps 2-4 for each program.
How long is the trial period?Each program’s trials count down separately. Most programs’ trials are counted by the number of uses. Those programs will show you the number of uses on the startup screen. One use is one “run” of the program. After the trial expires, that program will still run, but will limit you to only a sample of the program (usually about 20 exercises instead of hundreds or thousands in the full version (which varies by program)). A few of the trials are 30 day trials. They will show you how many days you have left to use it. 30-day trials start the first day you run the program. There are over 20 programs on the trial CD. If you use up all the trials of a program, you can still use other programs on the CD. And, as mentioned above, you could also bring the CD to a new computer and get a new trial on that computer
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