Cateeg-oh! is an evolving and versatile card game with hidden brain training objectives for all players. Small children just learning the complexity of language, advanced children, adults and grandparents with failing memory all benefit from simple yet powerful brain training. It's both an interactive family game for fun and a language learning resource loved by speech therapists for its versatile use.
Cateeg-oh! is a unique game that allows all players to play the same way, regardless of their skill level. There is no information written during the game to follow. Children improve their knowledge of the world, their imagination and their cognitive abilities during play. The motivation to play is simple: to win!
Since all the links that the children make between the pictures are "correct" and they cannot be wrong, their confidence will grow. The increased confidence in turn makes them even more engaged and creative, boosting their cognitive abilities.
• Learn new words
• Language categorization
• Conceptual connection of language
• Analyze language in different categories and concepts
• Use the imagination and creativity of language without limits
• Gain confidence as any match you make – category or concept is accepted. You don't have to find the "right" answer as per someone else
• Increases flexibility in language and cognitive processing as a single image can connect to many different categories and concepts
• Improve and encourage cognitive flexibility through play- that in turn improves flexibility and adaptability in everyday life. Highly recommended for children with autism and others who are struggling with change.
Distribute the cards among all players and place one card in the middle. Now compare the 6 images on the middle card and the top card in your hand - can you connect 2 images in a category or context? When you have found the match, call the images and the uniting factor and slam the card in your hand on to the card in the middle. There is now a new card that players need to find matches with! You have to hurry - the player who finish their cards first is the winner!
The cards are smartly designed, there is always at least one match between 2 cards, you just have to find it.
Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) or delay, autism and children with learning difficulties all benefit from playing Cateeg-oh!
There are 7 different ways to play the game and it is suitable for children at all stages of language development, including non-verbal children. No matter the level of development a child has there is always a game version available for the child. As the child develops, the versions of the game evolve according to the capabilities!
Advantages for the therapists-
Use the same learning resource for children at different developmental levels
7 ways to play, used as a learning resource and play-led therapy game
Measure the child's development in real time against the same resource
Encourage flexibility of cognitive processing and creativity
Used with verbal and non-verbal children
Understand the level of child's world knowledge
Playing Cateeg-oh! never gets dull or repetitive. Every new combination of cards presents new possibilities that evolve themselves the more advanced the players get.
180 images on 30 cards are endless resource for new ideas and opportunities.
The large cards measuring 10 x 10 cm are easy to hold for small players.
The packaging of the game is specially chosen to be compact so you can take it with you wherever you go to entertain the children- waiting room, plane, restaurant etc.
Instructions in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German and Russian.