Timers can be a useful way to manage behavior, promote task completion, or as a way to motivate the child. Digital clocks and timers are great and convenient, but they aren’t teaching kids an understanding of the passage of time, and are more abstract. Outloud Timer is different. You have the option to set the timer to either seconds or minutes and then set the time. A penguin appears and
This was one of the first speech apps for apraxia that I bought. It was enticing because it was a good price and the description looked much like a digital version of the Word FLIPS book I was using in therapy. It starts with a screen that allows you to pick a CV consonant/vowel group, seen below. For the purposes of this review, I chose the top group BPM. You
Speech FlipBook by TACTUS Therapy is a versatile app more suited for use with older children or adults. It is in a flip book format seen below. It has the option to flip each section of the word (onset, nucleus, and coda), or to flip the entire word. It contains literally every sound and consonant cluster found in words, allowing practice at the single syllable level. It is completely customizable,
Articulation Station is a comprehensive articulation app that I use quite a bit in therapy. You can choose to purchase each consonant deck separately to save on cost. As you can see from this screen shot, I haven’t purchased all of the sounds myself; however, I did purchase ‘l’ ‘r’ and ‘s’ because those decks also contain blends, which I do use a lot in therapy.I chose ‘P’ for the
Speech Stickers is the first app that I downloaded for Ashlynn (my daughter with apraxia) when she had first turned three. I chose it because it was cheap, and said it was developed for children with apraxia. The app is simple in design with not a lot of bells and whistles; however, my daughter loved practicing her speech with this app. The app is set up for kids in the
ApraxiaVille is an app from Smarty Ears, and is the newest speech app that I have downloaded to use at work and with Ashlynn my daughter with CAS.To get started, you create your players. You can make an avatar, or import your own picture. The application allows up to four players, which is nice from an SLP perspective, since you can use it during group therapy.Next, you choose your activity