Basic Concepts Skills Screener vs Reado Collection

BASIC CONCEPTS SKILLS SCREENER (BCSS) Evaluate early language and academic readiness concepts with ease. Understanding early learning concepts—such as size, shape, quantity, position, and sequence—is an essential building block for language development. These concepts are closely tied to a child's ability to follow directions, participate in the classroom, and develop foundational reading and math skills. The Basic Concepts Skills Screener (BCSS) is a dynamic, individually administered qualitative tool designed specifically for Speech-Language Pathologists, educators, and parents to easily screen, describe, and monitor a child’s conceptual understanding. Authored by experienced SLPs Darlene Nething, MS, CCC-SLP and Mary Huston, MS, CCC-SLP, and developed by Smarty Ears, BCSS provides actionable, descriptive data to guide your therapy and interventions. COMPREHENSIVE CONCEPT EVALUATION Assess a child's knowledge across four critical categories: • Spatial Concepts: Words relating to position and space (e.g., next to, under, behind). • Quantitative Concepts: Understanding quantity and measurement (e.g., equal, few, more). • Comparative Concepts: Comprehending comparative and superlative adjectives (e.g., big, bigger, same, different). • Temporal Concepts: Recognizing concepts of time and sequence (e.g., first, last, before). FLEXIBLE & ENGAGING TESTING MODES • Two Assessment Options: Choose the Quick Screening (30 items) for a rapid baseline, or the Full Screening (79 items) for a comprehensive analysis. • Child-Friendly Interface: A completely modernized, distraction-free testing screen featuring fluid native animations, tactile haptic feedback, and a clear visual progress bar to keep children engaged without overwhelming them. • Bilingual Support: Conduct assessments seamlessly in both English and Portuguese. INDUSTRY-LEADING REPORTING & DATA TRACKING BCSS doesn't just score a test; it provides a roadmap for intervention. The app analyzes responses by concept type and classifies them as Achieved, Emerging, or Not Achieved. • Age of Acquisition Breakdown: Reports now feature a highly detailed analysis of concepts mastered versus those missed, organized precisely by the typical age of acquisition (Ages 3, 4, 5, and 6). • Beautiful, Shareable Reports: Generate professional, easy-to-read PDF reports complete with performance graphs, detailed item analyses, and customized evaluator and clinic details. • Monitor Progress: Re-administer the screener over time to track growth and determine the effectiveness of targeted teaching or interventions. Developed by Smarty Ears Empowering clinicians and educators with innovative technology.

The Reado Collection is composed of Reado, Reado Flash and Reado Fun; 3 great reading applications designed for children that are learning to read or children presenting with reading difficulties. The Reado Collection is great for speech-language pathologists, resource teachers, teachers and parents who wish to improve their students’ or child’s reading skills with entertaining and easy-to-use applications. ** Reado ** The Reado word bank contains over 9300 words that are subdivided in micro-graduated word lists specifically targeting reading objectives. The application allows you to give an explicit and systematic instruction in regard to grapheme-phoneme correspondences for short vowels, long vowels, vowel digraphs, diphthongs, r-controlled vowels, consonant digraphs, consonant blends, visual confusions (b-d & b-p) and contextual spelling rules (hard and soft C, hard and soft G). In a few clicks, choose your reading objective and set the reading level. With Reado, planning your “reading sessions” has never been faster or easier! Also, the children greatly appreciate the interactive interface and the entertaining games. ** Reado Flash ** With this entertaining quick and easy application, you benefit from the same Reado word bank, which contains over 9300 words classified by goals and levels of difficulty, but the words are presented in a flash reading mode. For an efficient use of the flash reading mode, the application settings allow you to set the speed of word presentation in milliseconds. It also offers progressive appearing and disappearing modes. Moreover, there is a manual mode which gives you the opportunity to adapt the speed to the child’s need. Reado Flash is an essential tool for all professionals using flash reading. ** Reado Fun ** Reado Fun is an extension of the Reado application, offering 4 new reinforcement games to spice up your work sessions using the Reado word lists. The Reado Collection application targets: • Short Vowels (CVC One-Syllable Words, One-Syllable Words Beginning with a Vowel, CVCC One-Syllable Words, L Blends One-Syllable Words, R Blends One-Syllable Words, S Blends One-Syllable Words, Two -Syllable Words Beginning with a Vowel, Two-Syllable Words, Three-Syllable Words Beginning with a vowel, Three-Syllable Words, L Blends Two or More Syllables, R Blends Two or More Syllables, S Blends Two or More Syllables) – Over 3120 words • Long Vowels (One Syllable Words (CVCe & VCe), One Syllable Words with Blends, Two-Syllable Words, Three-Syllable Words, Two or More Syllable Words with Blends) – Over 750 words • Vowel Digraphs ai/ay, au, aw, ea, ee, ei/ey, ie, oa, oo, ow (long o) & Diphthongs oi, oy, ou, ow, ue, ui (One-Syllable Words (CVVC & VVC), One-Syllable Words with Blends, Two or Three-Syllable Words, Two or Three-Syllable Words with Blends) – Over 1530 words • R-Controlled Vowels ir, er, ur, or, ar, our, oor, oar, air, are, ear, eer, ire (One-Syllable Words, One-Syllable Words with Blends, Two-Syllable Words, Three-Syllable Words, Two or Three-Syllable Words with Blends) – Over 1860 words • Consonant Digraphs ch, sh, wh, th (One-Syllable Words, Two-Syllable Words, Three-Syllable Words, Irregular Spelling for “ch” and “sh”) – Over 760 words • Hard and Soft C (One-Syllable Words, Two or Three-Syllable Words, Hard “C” where Soft “C” Expected, Soft “C” where Hard “C” Expected) – Over 170 words • Hard and Soft G (One-Syllable Words, Two or Three-Syllable Words, Hard “G” where Soft “G” Expected, Soft “G” where Hard “G” Expected) – Over 200 words • Four-syllable Words – Over 200 words • Visual Confusions b/d and b/p (One-Syllable Words, One-Syllable Words with Blends, Two or Three-Syllable Words, Two or Three-Syllable Words with Blends) – Over 660 words Available on iPad.