The fabulous AllKidsGo!™ Learning Games
Developed by Peter Reimold, Ph.D. in Linguistics

More than 50 Learning Games
with speech, lots of sound effects,
tons of animations, and instructive interactions


The Story of AllKidsGo!™

We have lived with autism in our family for 30 years. After our son aged out of special school, we continued to work with him in many ways -- reading, writing, speech and language, music (he plays the piano), skiing, kayaking and canoeing, rollerblading, traveling up and down the country and overseas. He developed a liking for the computer, and especially enjoyed the graphics programs KidPix and Creative Painter (both of which we can heartily recommend). However, educational software for reading, writing, and general concepts turned out to be very unsatisfactory.

After trying many programs, including FastForWord, we finally developed our own set of Learning Games to address our son's conceptual and language problems. These games were highly interactive PowerPoint presentations, and to our delight, our son responded enthusiastically. Many concepts, such as time or cause-and-effect, which are difficult to illustrate in ordinary ways became much easier to teach with these animated games. But the programs also address such areas as articulation and speech perception with the help of sophisticated animation.

Of course, we knew that many children share our son's difficulties and could profit from these games -- but PowerPoint is an expensive program, and we could not assume that ordinary families were willing  to buy it.

Then came the discovery that OpenOffice.org, a FREE office suite comparable to Microsoft Office, did the job just as well as PowerPoint! We re-coded a few of the games on that platform and soon were satisfied that they worked smoothly. Many months later, a complete set of AllKidsGo!™  games was ready, revised to be useful to a wide range of children.