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This All-New, Research-Based* Series:
• Trains Who, What, Where, Why, How, With What, and Yes/No Questions
• Covers Paired Questions and How to Answer Questions Exhaustively
• Teaches Both the Syntax and Semantics of Many Forms of Questions

Suggested for Individuals (Pre-K through Adult) with:
• Autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities, language-learning disabilities, low vision, and hearing impairments,
• Also English language learners (Pre-K-6)

Product Description:
Most children with language disorders have difficulty understanding, answering, and asking questions. Deficits in the ability to ask and answer questions can have a serious impact on students’ communication development as well as their classroom performance.

program coversQuestionQuest® is a new three-level series which offers research-based intervention to help children master understanding and answering questions (Who, What, Where, Why, How, With What, and Yes/No). This program systematically trains both the syntactic and semantic aspects of different types of questions. Additional Information or purchase.

A Variety of Question Forms
Students who are learning to understand and respond to questions need to learn many syntactic subtleties. For example, they need to know whether a question refers to the subject or the object of a sentence (Who is painting? Who is the father painting?). They also need to discriminate between Yes/No and Wh-Questions.

QuestionQuest screenshotIn addition, students must understand the various semantic meanings of questions. For example, the question “How did the girl break the piñata?” most likely requires an instrument answer “…with a bat” while “How is the girl dancing?” requires a manner response “…on her toes.” Similarly, the question “Why is the girl sad?” requires a cause response “…because her balloon got away,” while the question “Why is the boy filling the washtub?” requires a purpose answer like “…to wash the dog.”

Students must also learn that when more than one person is involved in an activity, a question such as “Who is washing the car?” requires an exhaustive response where all of the participants are named. Similarly, when a scene is described as “Everyone is reading something and eating something,” the response to “Who is reading what and eating what?” requires pairing all of the actors with what they are reading and what they are eating.

Automatic Lesson Delivery
Students in inclusionary settings can use QuestionQuest independently in their classrooms. Using Laureate’s Optimized Intervention technology, the program begins with an assessment to determine where to start training. As the student works, the software continually monitors responses, adjusts the instructional support accordingly, and automatically guides the student through the curriculum. Extensive data collection and built-in reports document student performance and ensure accountability.

Three Levels of Training

Three Levels, 21 Modules in All

Level 1
From Module 6
QuestionQuest screen shot
Sample question:
Who is carrying the ladder?
(Student must choose all answers.)
Level 1 introduces the simplest Wh- forms (Who, What, Where, and With What) and covers how to answer questions completely (see screen shot).

Modules
1. Who Introduction
2. Who/What Subject
3. Who/What Object
4. Who/Where/Where Introduction
5. Who/What/Where
6. Who/What/Where Exhaustive
7. What/With What

Level 2
From Module 5
QuestionQuest screen shot
Sample questions:
Is the baker decorating a cake?
Who is carrying a cake?
Level 2 presents more challenging activities such as discriminating between Wh- and Yes/No questions (see screen shot) and also introduces How.

Modules
1. Who(m)/ What/Where Pairs
2. Who-Verb Contrasts Exhaustive
3. Who-What/With What/Where Exhaustive
4. Who Is/Is Not & Yes/No Contrasts
5. Who/What & Yes/No Contrasts
6. Who/What Subject/Object Contrasts
7. How Instrument

Level 3
From Module 6
QuestionQuest screen shot
Sample questions:
How is the boy leaving the tent?
Why is the boy leaving the tent?
Level 3 covers the more difficult concepts of How and Why (see example) and teaches students to distinguish between How, Why, and Where.

Modules
1. How Manner
2. Why Cause
3. Why Purpose
4. How/Where
5. Why/Where
6. How/Why
7. How/Why/Where


Pricing

 QuestionQuest: Level 1  (Mac/Win CD)
137-WB
1-4 copies $210.00 each  
5-9 copies $147.00 each
30% off
10-19 copies $126.00 each
40% off
20-49 copies $105.00 each
50% off
50+ copies Call for Pricing
 
How many copies (1-49)?:
Network Version Call for Pricing
1-800-562-6801
     

 QuestionQuest: Level 2  (Mac/Win CD)
138-WB
1-4 copies $210.00 each  
5-9 copies $147.00 each
30% off
10-19 copies $126.00 each
40% off
20-49 copies $105.00 each
50% off
50+ copies Call for Pricing  
How many copies (1-49)?:
Network Version Call for Pricing
1-800-562-6801

 QuestionQuest: Level 3  (Mac/Win CD)
139-WB
1-4 copies $210.00 each  
5-9 copies $147.00 each
30% off
10-19 copies $126.00 each
40% off
20-49 copies $105.00 each
50% off
50+ copies Call for Pricing  
How many copies (1-49)?:
Network Version Call for Pricing
1-800-562-6801

 Get All Three Programs in this Series and Save!
 QuestionQuest Levels 1-3 Package
822-WB
1-4 packages $472.00 each  
5-9 packages $330.40 each
30% off
10-19 packages $283.20 each
40% off
20-49 packages $236.00 each
50% off
50+ packages Call for Pricing  
How many copies (1-49)?:    
Network Version Call for Pricing
1-800-562-6801

System Requirements

Macintosh® System Requirements:
• 300 MHz or faster PowerPC or Intel processor
• Mac OS® 8.1 or later, including any OS X
• 128 MB RAM, 256 MB RAM for OS X
• 40 MB available disk space
• 8x speed CD-ROM
• 800x600 resolution

Windows® System Requirements:
• 300 MHz CPU or faster
• Windows® 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista or 7
• 64 MB RAM
• 40 MB available disk space
• Windows compatible sound card
• 8x speed CD-ROM
• 800x600 resolution

Authors

Authors:
Mary Sweig Wilson, Ph.D,
Bernard J. Fox, M.S.

Independent
Research Demonstrates Effectiveness

QuestionQuest: Facilitating Syntax and Pragmatics through Optimized Software*

Smith, S., Pereira, M., Ravina, R., Carr, C., Ackai, L., & deVilliers, P.

Teachers pre-tested 14 oral deaf children with language delays using a 15 item Wh-Question elicited production test.1 The children then used QuestionQuest for 30 minutes per day, usually 3 times a week.

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• At post-test, scores on the Wh-Question elicited production test more than doubled; a difference that was highly significant.

• Improvements were evident across a range of initial ability. Some children who did not produce Wh-Questions on the pre-test did so after training. Others with initially limited production of Wh-Questions expanded their repertoire.

These results indicate that using QuestionQuest was an effective way to provide children with the critical language input they needed to improve their abilities to understand, ask, and answer questions.

*Paper presented at Clarke School for Hearing and Speech, Northampton, MA, May 2011

1Seymour, H., Roeper T., & deVilliers, J. (2005) Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation - Norm Referenced (DELV-NR) San Antonio, TX: The Psychological Corporation


"QuestionQuest is REALLY cool! From an speech-language pathologist's perspective, I think the approach for this software is right on."
Lisa Grant, M.S. (CCC-SLP)
Blue Springs, MO


"Laureate is known for developing high quality and innovative software for special needs and this new set of superior programs answers a great need for software to help both children and adults  understand and use Wh- and other questions."

Joan Tanenhaus
Closing the Gap
April/May 2011




*Development of these programs was supported by Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).