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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.
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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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