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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, […]

Guest Post

I wrote up a little guest post for Live Love Speech and it is now on her blog… check it out by clicking here! We’re wrapping up the year here in Kansas City… I hope your end of the year is going great.  Look for a few posts and giveaways in the next few weeks! […]

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 […]

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 […]

Speechie Freebies 1 Month/1,000 Follower Giveaway!

Hello Sublimers!  As you have most likely seen from previous posts, I am one of the collaborators on Speechie Freebies. We started our collaborative website to bring our readers free, downloadable materials to use in speech therapy sessions. As of March 1st, we celebrated not only a one-month anniversary of the launch of the website, […]

Social Skill Builder {App Review & Giveaway}

Over the past month I’ve had the opportunity to use Social Skill Builder’s App!  Both the Full and Lite versions are compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad (iOS 4.3 or later).  I had previously used the Lite version but was provided the Full version for the purpose of this review. According to Social Skill Builder, this app was […]