Sebran's ABC - Software For Special Needs Kids

Sebran's ABC is freeware and teaches children to read and write.

Sebran's ABC has a very simple and clear interface, which makes it especially suited for children with special educational needs. There are few, clear colors on a black background with as few visual distractions as possible, making it easier for the child to concentrate on the task. All buttons are oversized and easy to see and use.

Sebran is available in many languages, including Afrikaans, Breton, Croatian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Norwegian, Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish and Swedish.

Testimonials

"I'm specialized in working with children with traumatic brain injuries, cerebral palsy etc. We're rather well equiped with computers here, but there's always a lack of good and particularly suitable software for the population of kids that we work with.

To make it short, software for such kids got to have certain characteristics, especially due to their disorders in perception, to their cognitive status etc. And I was quite surprised after comming across your Sebran, noticing that the author of the software considered such characteristics while programing it. VERY RARE ! To avoid listing all those characteristics, I'll just mention one, maybe the most important: simplicity in displaying the tasks. Background is black, which I think is the best. The child's attention should be focused on the task maximally, so background got to be invisible, not exist actually.

Last couple of years I've been trying to find suitable software for our population of disturbed kids, and I did find some, with really good ideas. But realization of that ideas was poor or not finished. Always lacked something: bad background, too many objects or details, or the software just didn't have "a vibration", which is immediately recognized by children: they just don't like to use it.

Just this morning I came accross your Sebran, and installed it on my PC and my SLP colleague's. During the break we commented how children were pleased with it, and how suitable is for some particular kids. And how programmer must have been a magician to put all that in just a small installation file ! Congratulations to the author!"

--Prof. Amer Ahmetasevic, speech-language terapist in Krapinske Toplice, Croatia.

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