Letter Sounds Pro: App Review

Letter Sounds Pro: App Review

Research has shown that children who are  strong readers are skilled in using letter-sound knowledge to learn new words when reading. Difficulty with grapheme (letter) – phoneme (sound) correspondence is one of the difficulties that significantly affect the...
VowelViz: The answer to confusing vowels

VowelViz: The answer to confusing vowels

I was so excited to win a copy of Vowel Viz  from Mary over at Speech Adventures. Please read her review of the App here and how she has used it. I wanted to try Vowel Viz in another way.   I have  a few kids on my case load who are learning to read or are...
SlowTunes: 5 Different ways to use this app

SlowTunes: 5 Different ways to use this app

SlowTunes is a simple music player for iPhone and iPod Touch that lets you slow down your favorite songs without changing the pitch       Brian Stokes wrote SlowTunes for his daughter, who was diagnosed with Childhood Apraxia of Speech when she was two...
School of Multi Step Directions: App Review

School of Multi Step Directions: App Review

Listening skills and the ability to follow instructions is an integral part of being able to function in an academic classroom environment. I addressed some of the reasons for these difficulties HERE and some ways to work on these difficulties HERE. Virtual Speech...
Auditory Processing Studio: App Review

Auditory Processing Studio: App Review

I have found that  Auditory Processing Disorder  is a word that is often bandied about as a “cover all bases” term but the disorder has far reaching consequences in terms of  a child’s academic performance. Auditory Processing refers to the ability to...
Between The Lines – App Review

Between The Lines – App Review

Social –Pragmatic skills are difficult to teach and yet more and more children are experiencing difficulty learning and generalizing these skills.   Between the Lines by Hamaguchi Apps is designed for primary(elementary)  school students through young adults, who...