Puddingstone Place
by Children's Hospital Boston
Grow language skills using an interactive virtual house!
Puddingstone Place was developed by Children’s Hospital Boston to address communication difficulties. It is designed to address the needs of a diverse population, including those with auditory, word retrieval and language learning difficulties – especially for these on the autism spectrum.
Puddingstone Place is an interactive virtual environment where individuals enter and move around in the two-floor Puddingstone house, comprised of seven photo-realistic rooms.
Rich in sound, graphics, and animation, this interactive house incorporates common household objects that can produce their associated sounds, movements, and labels (names) when individuals activate them. For example, the tea kettle in the kitchen whistles and generates steam, producing a text label and voiceover for the word ‘kettle.’
The software can be customised for different ages and learning difficulties.
- When tailored for children, the program starts up with an interactive, engaging character named Champ who pops up to introduce each room.
Children will enjoy visiting the Playroom to play the interactive Dress-Up Champ, Sticky Bubble Gum, and Orchestra games.
- The software is flexible enough for use with adults, who can turn off Champ and customise the software to assist with word retrieval, and modify the cueing controls to meet their personal needs.
Puddingstone Place also includes a printable teaching guide written by a paediatric speech-language pathologist.
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Minimum System Requirements
- Windows
- Operating System: Windows XP, 2000, ME (not compatible with Windows Vista
Puddingstone Place is targeted at the following age ranges:
- All Ages
Puddingstone Place is designed to foster development in the areas of:
- Literacy
- Communication
Users can access Puddingstone Place in the following ways:
- Mouse/ Trackball/ Joystick
- Keyboard
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