Speech-Language Tablet Apps
Question Sleuth Ages 6 and up
Calling All Sleuths! Are you clever enough to ask the right questions and find the hidden star? Give it a try with this delightfully entertaining language game designed for two or more players. Pick a player to secretly hide the star behind a picture and let everyone else compete to find it through the process of elimination. Use our image categories or go ahead and make your own using the iPad's camera, your photos or search from the web. Question Sleuth is a great way to practice categories, attributes, "wh" questions, articulation or whatever you like. Game play can be customized for all ages and makes a great family activity! Though designed with educators in mind, Question Sleuth is a fun, imaginative and engaging game to play with family and friends as well.
Picture the Sentence Ages 6 and up
“She is eating an apple under the tree.” What does that sentence really mean? What would it look like? Picture the Sentence is an exciting app designed to practice language and auditory processing tasks at the basic sentence level. This app offers three different levels of difficulty so the child can learn how to attend to important elements of a sentence and “picture it,” attaching meaning to the words and eventually forming mental pictures without visual support. It is also an excellent choice for anyone who is trying to learn and understand the English language. **Turn the voice commands off and the text feature on, and this game can also be a great way to practice basic reading comprehension skills too!
Language Empires Ages 4 and up
Language Empires was developed by two Speech-Language Pathologists and it utilizes the ancient civilizations theme to guide you and your students on learning specific language targets. This application designed for elementary age students targets 8 goals: Answering how, why, and which questions, inferencing, vocabulary, predicting and figurative language, and sequencing.
Language Adventures Ages 4 and up
Language Adventures, now updated with additional content targeting categories, inferences, and wh-questions, is a new spin on your old speech and language game boards! Language Adventures is a first-of-its-kind app that allows you to engage students in a contextual language intervention experience on your iPad! Through an exciting interface and bright, colorful graphics, students will develop language skills in areas for success in school.
All the basics of game play- player selection, dice rolling, and token moving- have been transformed for the iPad platform. Additionally, the app allows you to select from three levels of difficulty appropriate for elementary through high school-aged students, with accompanying school-based themes and vocabulary contexts, and save your students’ targets and progress over repeated plays. Question targets are related to the topics of each leveled game board (playground, cafeteria, and classroom), so that they are grounded in a stronger context to enhance students’ comprehension, semantic connections and use of more complex vocabulary. Language Adventures is based on research regarding language development and use of context clues to increase overall language skills, reading comprehension, and academic success. Research has indicated that targeting vocabulary facilitates reading comprehension and oral language skills (Dole, Sloan, and Trathen, 1995). The questions within Language Adventures are presented within real-world themes providing context clues to assist in learning vocabulary. By providing context-based questions and a thematic approach, Language Adventures assists children in strengthening word connections and developing meaningful concepts (Hickman, et al. 2004). Within the content of Language Adventures, the child is provided with meaningful learning activities related to their own experiences and encouraged to use student-friendly definitions of words within the app, which enhance language comprehension and production (Beck, et al., 2002).
Listen Close Articulation Ages 6 and up
Listen Close Articulation is a unique speech therapy game that challenges players to memorize and repeat an ever-increasing string of articulation word sequences. It features a comprehensive collection of over 600 sound-specific articulation words designed for speech-language pathologists to use with individuals who exhibit difficulty producing the following speech sounds: S, Z, R, L, S/R/L Blends, SH, CH, and TH.
Word Search Articulation Ages 6 and up
Practice your searching skills while working on your articulation abilities with this fun and exciting speech therapy game. Word Search Articulation is jam-packed with over 1,000 sound-specific articulation words that can be hunted for. These puzzles contain hidden words designed for speech-language pathologists to use with individuals who exhibit difficulty producing the following speech sounds: S, Z, R, L, S/R/L Blends, SH, CH, and TH.
Tiny Hands Ages 18 months-5 yrs
TinyHands Sorting 1
This is the first and most simple game in the TinyHands Sorting series.
The game consists of 12 beautiful environments each focused on a set of basic concepts from the child's world such as shapes, colors, seasons, and animals.
TinyHands What's My Pair 2
This game is the second game in our Pairs matching series. Like the previous game in the series it is based on pairs matching, but it introduces more challenging concepts such as logical groups, counting, numbers, and associations. In most cases this game requires the child to understand WHAT he sees in order to make the correct match as opposed to visual similarity.
TinyHands Towers 2
The second game in our Towers series. This is an educational game for children of age 2.5 and up. The game consists of 15 beautiful boards designed to help toddlers acquire basic concepts such as: big VS. small, before VS. after, right VS. left, and bottom VS. top.
Little Stars - Toddler Games is a fun educational app for Toddlers that covers ten age appropriate topics including: First Words, ABC Letter Names and Sounds, Counting and recognizing Numbers, Shapes, and Colors. While your toddler is enjoying his race into space he will be learning core skills that are critical for the development of every child.
Alphabet Zoo Ages 2-5
Alphabet Zoo is designed and reviewed by educators to teach children letter-sound association, an essential skill for learning to read. More importantly, kids have fun playing with the animals and creative sounds without even realizing they're learning.
This colorful, educational vocabulary App for the iPhone®, iPad®, and iPod touch® has all 52 illustrated picture flash cards (plus audio of each card text) from the Let's Name Things Fun Deck® by Super Duper® Publications. Select the cards you want students to see, and have them name items to practice vocabulary, categorizing, and thinking skills.
Lego Juniors Create and Cruise
Create & Cruise provides plenty of inspiration for real-life LEGO builds and imaginative play scenarios you can talk to your child about – like why the pretty princess is driving a police car that has legs instead of wheels.
More than just a game, First Words Sampler is a powerful educational tool for toddlers and preschoolers. It provides hours of fun while giving your child a head start on learning about letters and words.
Little Finder Ages 5 and Under
Little Finder is sure to bring a lot of fun and laughter to your family. This is the only hidden objects game designed for both parents and kids. Not only that, this also is the only hidden objects game with a 2 player mode so you can play with your friends and race to find your hidden objects before the other player does.
StoryPals has several features that make it versatile and robust. The included stories can be read independently or read aloud with professional narrations. Each story is accompanied by a vivid illustration that supports the meaning of the story via a variety of slick interactions that come to life with entertaining voiceovers and sound effects. Following each story is a 10 question quiz containing WH questions (who, what, where, when, why) to assess story comprehension. You can easily track student progress of comprehension goals with automatic scoring for individual students or a small group, and export scores for access outside the app.
Phonics Studio makes learning how to pronounce words fun and easy. Besides mastering pronunciation, your students will also greatly expand their existing vocabulary since the app comes fully loaded with over 2,500 gorgeous flash cards.
Preschool EduPlay is a fun game for children that will not only entertain but also educate and teach them. The game features four types of challenges: 1. matching objects; 2. hidden pictures; 3. spot the difference; 4. picture puzzle (bonus mode). Sorting, colours, shapes, numbers and letters - all that a preschooler should now - everything is included. It's all about learning while having fun.
This app focused on helping kids learn new action words by
showing gorgeous photographs where the actions are clearly acted out.
Problem solving and language development are two hugely important skills in the development of any child. The goal of this application is to give parents and teachers a new interactive tool that helps children further develop these critically important skills in a fun and engaging new way.
Touch and Learn is a powerful new gaming platform that allows you to introduce new concepts in a fun and exciting new way. You can use Touch and Learn to teach basic concepts such as new shapes or advanced concepts such as colors or characteristics (e.g. big, bigger, small, smaller, etc.). The possibilities are truly endless and just up to your imagination.
Classify It! Ages 3-12
Think you know what poison ivy and a firefly have in common? How about some of the ways a dolphin and a goldfish are different? Download Classify It!, a new game from AAAS Science NetLinks, to test your knowledge of how various organisms can be sorted and grouped.
Clean Up: Category Sorting Ages 5-12
This interactive game develops language, reasoning, and sorting and classifying skills in your learners. Players must "clean up" by putting 75 photographic images of toys, food, and clothing away in the correct shopping cart, refrigerator, or toy box. Each target is introduced by its label ("Where does the Apple go?") in each round where players see 15 unique images. Correct responses receive visual and auditory reinforcement while incorrect answers are corrected by a visual prompt of the correct answer flashing. After all targets have been seen once, they are reintroduced in a new, randomized order. The App takes data for the percentage answered correctly across rounds as well as sessions in which the App is in use. This app builds foundational sorting skills for students just developing their sorting and classifying skills.
Story Wheel Ages 5-10
Story Wheel is an educational game that improves your child’s cognitive abilities. Story Wheel helps develop an understanding of story composition, strengthens imagination, and improves oral language skills. It is a perfect complement to your child’s language arts school curriculum.
Phonics Tic-Tac-Toe Ages 5-8
Phonics Tic-Tac-Toe Interactive uses the game of tic-tac-toe to motivate children to practice what they have learned about phonics. This two-player game lets kids earn Xs and Os by answering questions about letter sounds, syllables and vowels. Users must be readers to get a full understanding of what the questions are asking but younger, non-reading siblings could easily play with their older, reading brother or sister. Great for the classroom, but still a fun literacy app for car rides and playing at home.
iStory Time Ages 6-8
The iStoryTime app includes a wide selection of narrated children’s storybooks and video episodes featuring your kids’ favorite characters. The iStoryTime app is perfect for learning to read, summer road trips, bedtime stories and more!
Little Writer Ages 2-6
Little Writer is a tracing app that's done just right. Little Writer is super fun and so easy to use that your kids will think that tracing letters, numbers, shapes, etc. is a game vs. a boring chore.
Alphabet Tracing Ages 3-6
Fun train, truck and worm animations come to life for children to follow, while showing the proper way to write alphabet letters and numbers.
iWrite Words Ages 5-8
iWriteWords teaches your child handwriting while playing a fun and entertaining game.
The Writing Maching Ages 5-8
The road to literacy is based on a foundation that starts with the development of very specific concepts related to language, print awareness and recognition. It is well known that developing concepts about print at an early age is invaluable to a child’s overall literacy development.
A1 Spelling Ages 5-8
A1 Spelling App is an easy to use engaging app that help kids learn common spellings. The kids see a picture and hear the word and then type the spelling using the on screen key pad.
American Wordspeller Ages 5 and older
Type in 2-4 letters of your word by "how it sounds to you". Spell it just how it SOUNDS to you. NO spelling RULES required. If you spell the first 2-3 letters wrong, good, this dictionary will find your word no matter how you spell it as long as the letters SOUND right to you. Over 68,000 common, everyday words. This dictionary excludes most words if they start with a capitalized letter at the beginning unless the word is common to everyone (such as the word "Saturday"or "March").
Sentence Builder Ages 5-8
A fun new sentence builder app is designed to learn about words, sentences, pronunciation, grammar, and punctuation.
Articulation Station All ages
It is a comprehensive articulation program offering practice at the word, sentence and story levels in 22 sounds in the English language.
Multiple Choice Articulation Ages 6-10
This speech articulation app features a collection of over 500 multiple choice questions designed to use with individuals who exhibit difficulty producing the following speech sounds: S, Z, R, L, S/R/L Blends, SH, CH, and TH.
