I’ve had a chance to check out 3 of Smarty Ears’ apps this month and wanted to tell you all about them! They cover very different needs and we use them regularly with my students. Expressive:The first is Expressive, one of Smart Ears’ AAC apps. It is an entry-level, yet comprehensive AAC app available […]
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Move over Sticker Charts…
“Great job today, let’s put a sticker on your chart!” I’m not sure how you feel about sticker charts but I have always abhorred them! It may be a combo of being allergic to stickers with the student obsession they incite. Or it could be that a sticker on a chart does little to show […]
School of Multi-Step Directions app from VSC {Appy Friday Review}
Press the on button, swipe the screen, then select the Virtual Speech Center’s “School of Multi-Step Directions” app! This great addition to iTherapy from VSC aims to improve auditory comprehension of multi-step directions in the academic context. The app is built around the theme of school and allows children to follow increasingly longer and more complex multi–step unrelated directions […]
Prepositions Journey app from VSC {Appy Friday Review}
“Where” is an app targeting prepositions?!? Here! Virtual Speech Center’s “Preposistions Journey” is an app which aims to aid practice with early/common prepositions. Children have fun practicing prepositions with three animals who appear in three different colorful scenes: lake camping, island, and city.I have several children that are targeting prepositions at one of my settings. Overall, […]
Comprehension Aphasia app from VSC {Appy Friday Review}
Virtual Speech Center’s “Comprehension Aphasia” is an app which aims to help adults and children with auditory comprehension tasks. The app is ideally used with those who have difficulties as a result of aphasia, cognitive deficits and decreased attention, Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD), receptive language disorders, and Autism.I have several children with receptive language disorder, […]
“I Dare You Articulation” {App Review & Giveaway}
I dare you to find an app that provides opportunities for carry-over of articulation skills that is more engaging than the newest app from Erik X. Raj, “I Dare You Articulation”. This app is a collection of 600 (no typo there!) kid-friendly dares designed for speech-language pathologists to use with children exhibiting difficulty with s, […]
Describe with Art {App Review & Giveaway}
“This world is but a canvas to our imagination” ~Henry David Thoreau Virtual Speech Center recently released “Describe with Art” which is an app which aims to help preschool/elementary aged children who struggle with verbally describing and following directions which contain descriptive vocabulary. As describing is a common task for students, this skill is […]
Apps By EdNinja {App Review & Giveaway}
April is Autism Awareness month and so many great App creators have offered up highly discounted and free apps to professionals to utilize with special populations. When I was looking through those great apps, one popped up that I hadn’t heard of from a company called EdNinja. (Find out more about their company on their […]
Multiple Choice Articulation from Erik X. Raj {App Review & Giveaway}
To say that artic therapy can get bland quickly would be an understatement! I am constantly wracking my brain trying to find a new and fun way to target sentence and conversation levels. Particularly for my oh-so-cool 3rd and 4th graders! So, when I was offered the opportunity to try out Erik X. Raj’s Multiple […]
Using QR Codes in Speech Therapy!
Have you discovered the magic of QR codes yet? Or do you see these little squares around town and on your favorite products and wonder, “Who created this crazy box-o-dots?”. QR Codes are really Quick Response Codes. They are a type of matrix barcode that came to us from Japan. The QR Code has become popular […]