Clicker 6

Product Names: Clicker
Manufacturer/Publisher: Crick Software Ltd

Clicker 6 from Crick software is an award-winning literacy support tool for pupils of all abilities to develop their reading and writing skills

Crick's Clicker 6 writing support tool provides on-screen word banks with integrated speech, within an easy-to-use talking word processor. The simple approach to building new grids means it can be used throughout the curriculum with a variety of different abilities and ages. The on-screen grids comprise of up to 100 cells, which hold letters, words, phrases and pictures.

Users of Clicker 6 can listen to text using the built-in speech software or record their own voices and sounds as well as import digital images and video to develop multi-media projects.

Who is Clicker 6 Suitable For?

Suitable for all pupils aged 4 - 11.
Ideal for pupils who require special education needs due to dyslexia, learning difficulties, switch access, speech and language difficulties and any student with low vision.

What benefits does it provide the user?

Clicker is ideal for young learners with dyslexia enabling pupils to concentrate on their writing rather than being slowed down when concentrating on spelling every word.
Helps pupils with learning difficulties with its multisensory approach and activities that are broken down into small and manageable steps to encourage concentration.
All Crick software is compatible with switch access making Clicker 6 accessible to pupils with physical disabilities.
Speech and language development is supported with 'forced order grids' and 'modelled sentence grids'. Pupils internalise the simple sentence structure by being able to look and listen to what has been written.
Students with low vision will benefit from the high quality speech available, uncluttered screen layout and customisable colour-coded grids, as well as the customisable zoom options, variable line spacing and large toolbar and fonts options.

Key features

Clicker 6 helps to promote independent reading and writing.
Provides automatic speech feedback whilst pupils write; the words are clearly highlighted to reinforce word recognition.
One male and one female clear voice available that sounds almost human rather than robotic.
Intelligent word prediction encourages children to create flowing pieces of text, accurate spelling and grammatically correct sentences.
Point-and-click grids; words and/or sentences with speech facilities in the cells to help pupils create a significant piece of writing.
Writing frames to help children structure their writing.
Matching activities to develop basic problem-solving and language acquisition skills.
Picture Library so children can illustrate their own books and documents, and teachers can use the graphical support for learners who need additional help.
Child-friendly Sassoon font helps children recognise words and letter patterns.
Fully customisable toolbar with standard icons for pupils to become familiar with.
Quick Grid Wizards and Quick Page Wizards for teachers to create personalised activities quickly and easily.

What's New in Clicker 6?

More pupil independence:

Quick Start launches the word processor to allow children to start working immediately.
Primary word predictor suggests words to fit the context of the pupils' writing to help with spelling, grammar and to provide a more adventurous vocabulary.
Click and Edit activities allow pupils to independently create their own talking books and presentations.
Clicker Paint is fully integrated with Clicker 6 giving pupils the opportunity to be more creative.
Webcam support for taking photographs which will instantly appear in any Clicker document.
Children can save Clicker activities to their 'favourites' for future easy access.
Enhanced library contains 2500 curriculum pictures for use in documents as well as in Clicker Sets, the predictor and spellchecker.
Mouse Dwell improves access for those using joysticks, trackballs or eye-control devices.

Less teacher time:

A new way of creating Clicker activities now available. Wizards can be used for sentence building, word banks, writing books, matching and speaking and listening activities.
New Editing tools have made editing activities simple. Click on a cell and the toolbar instantly changes to display only the tools relevant to the item being edited.
Instant access to Learning Grids within Clicker so no need to log-in to access the free resources.