The Bottom Line
Pros
- Beautifully designed product
- Solid overview of the Applied Behavioral Analysis approach to education
- Clickable table of contents
- Reasonably priced at $30
Cons
- Read-aloud presentation style is very inconvenient
- Useful for beginners only
- Images are all stock photos -- no visual examples
- Short on ideas for implementation in school setting
Description
- CD-ROM powerpoint presentation
- Focus on Applied Behavioral Analysis used to teach language skills
- Presented in a powerpoint/seminar style with a clickable table of contents
- Includes no supporting materials, but does have a companion website with limited resource material
Guide Review - Educational CD-ROM
Sharon Sexton-Braun, MS Ed. is the mother of a child on the autism spectrum who has developed a CD-ROM to support parents and educators as they help their learners to communicate in natural settings.Ms. Sexton-Braun has created a very beautiful product which offers basic information in a surprisingly inconvenient format. In essence, it is a longish powerpoint presentation read aloud -- featuring stock photos of children and adults in various settings. Because there is no fast-forward or print options, users must sit through Ms. Braun's narration in each chapter.
If this CD were available in book form, or as a book on tape, it would actually be a much more useful primer. As it is, it requires the user to sit in front of their computer for a lecture -- and take notes by hand.
Users of this CD will also need to find and/or purchase signficant additional materials to actually implement the ABA approach in a school setting. Examples are fairly general and not specifically applicable to a classroom situation.
