The ASL Tales and Games for Kids software series follows Paws, the signing dog, and his friends as they explore their neighborhood, Pawstown, USA. Each piece of software contains 3 community-focused stories and 10 games. Neighborhood children are deaf, hard of hearing, or multiply disabled, and represent different ethnic groups. Signing and/or audio are options for accessing information. Biscuit Boulevard focuses on events that take place on one street in Pawstown. The stories are original and written to promote English literacy, while simultaneously teaching important aspects of ASL. Each story can be viewed continuously, without the child needing to manipulate the mouse, or the child can control the story himself. Miriam Morrow, a deaf actress, signs each sentence dressed as Paws, the signing dog. Any word that is colored blue can be seen individually signed. Each story has three games, which reinforce skills in literacy, spelling, visual perception, memory, computer skills, and creativity. Biscuit Boulevard includes these ASL stories: On Stage: Through Whitney's aspirations to become a great actress, we learn how adjectives are modified in American Sign Language to show the intensity of emotions (e.g., happy, very happy). Will Whitney's acting demonstrations keep her from getting to the theater on time? You can create pictures in the drawing game, or learn how to fingerspell words too! You can create pictures in the drawing game, or learn how to fingerspell words too! Menu Mix-Up: Many signs look similar to other ones. Watch how the waitress confuses what food Chiu-Chin wants for dinner at the restaurant, because they are so similar when signed. Play a game of Con-SIGN-tration with the words from this story! How many matches can you make? Different Clothes: Jurry and Josh, the Pawstown twins, confuse a department store salesman who thinks that the children are actually one child who keeps changing his mind about what clothes to get. Notice that the signs in the story, like "shoes", are signed with the same handshape on each hand - "twin signs." Design clothes for the children in the Biscuit Boulevard CD, or solve crossword puzzles!

Ages 3-8.

Includes three stories, ten games and printable picture dictionary of the sign/English vocabulary used. American Sign Language.

Windows System Requirements
Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista or Window 7
Hard Drive Space: 250 MB
CD-ROM: Drive 16x
Display: Color SVGA monitor that supports at least True Color (16-bit)