Suggested IPAD AND IPHONE APPS FOR SPEECH/LANGUAGE:
**Note: Many of these apps are available in a free "lite" version, but you do not get access to the entire app. This is a good way to see if you will like the app before you purchase it. The full version of the following apps vary in price, starting from $.99 and up.
Suggested Vocabulary/Language Apps:
Compare & Contrast Fun Deck (Super Duper)-this app provides you with pictures of two related objects and you can state ways in which they are similar and different.
What Doesn't Belong Fun Deck (Super Duper)-this app shows you three to four pictures and you have to identify which one does not belong with the others and you can state why it does not belong.
Which Go Together? (kindergarten.com)-this app provides you with four pictures and you have to choose the two that go together the best and state how they are related.
Receptive by Class (kindergarten.com)-this app shows you four different pictures and asks you to identify the object according to its category (ex. Can you show me the furniture?).
Name That Category! Fun Deck (Super Duper)-this app shows three to four pictures at one time and you have to identify the category to which they all belong. This includes both concrete and abstract categories.
Mad Libs-this app is just like the Mad Libs books! You choose a pre-made story and write a word based on the part of speech that is prompted: noun, plural noun, verb, adjective, and adverb. At the end, it inserts the chosen words into the passage to create a final story!
Compare & Contrast Fun Deck (Super Duper)-this app provides you with pictures of two related objects and you can state ways in which they are similar and different.
What Doesn't Belong Fun Deck (Super Duper)-this app shows you three to four pictures and you have to identify which one does not belong with the others and you can state why it does not belong.
Which Go Together? (kindergarten.com)-this app provides you with four pictures and you have to choose the two that go together the best and state how they are related.
Receptive by Class (kindergarten.com)-this app shows you four different pictures and asks you to identify the object according to its category (ex. Can you show me the furniture?).
Name That Category! Fun Deck (Super Duper)-this app shows three to four pictures at one time and you have to identify the category to which they all belong. This includes both concrete and abstract categories.
Mad Libs-this app is just like the Mad Libs books! You choose a pre-made story and write a word based on the part of speech that is prompted: noun, plural noun, verb, adjective, and adverb. At the end, it inserts the chosen words into the passage to create a final story!
Auditory Comprehension/Listening Comprehension Apps:
Auditory Workout-this app has multiple levels of orally presented directions of increasing length and complexity. The instructions contain a variety of concepts including location, quantitative, spatial, time, and conditional.
Auditory Workout-this app has multiple levels of orally presented directions of increasing length and complexity. The instructions contain a variety of concepts including location, quantitative, spatial, time, and conditional.
Hearing/Listening Apps:
Hear Coach-presents similar sounding words in the presence of background noise and requires you to identify the word given multiple choice options. There are multiple levels which increase in complexity, specifically in terms of the number of multiple choice options presented and the level of background noise.
Hear Coach-presents similar sounding words in the presence of background noise and requires you to identify the word given multiple choice options. There are multiple levels which increase in complexity, specifically in terms of the number of multiple choice options presented and the level of background noise.
Reading Comprehension Apps:
Super Readers Comprehensions Grade 2-this app provides 24 different narrative stories (approximately 3-4 paragraphs in length) and asks four to five related multiple choice comprehension questions for each story. It allows you to scan through the text to locate the answer if you cannot remember it.
Super Readers Comprehensions Landmarks-this app provides 21 different non-fiction passages (approximately 3-5 paragraphs in length) and asks four to five related multiple choice comprehension questions for each one. It allows you to scan through the text to locate the answer if you cannot remember it.
Reading Comprehension Practice Grades 2-3-this app provides 40 different short narrative stories (approximately 1 paragraph in length) and asks four related multiple choice comprehension questions for each story. It also allows you to look back in the text for the answer if you cannot remember it.
Super Readers Comprehensions Grade 2-this app provides 24 different narrative stories (approximately 3-4 paragraphs in length) and asks four to five related multiple choice comprehension questions for each story. It allows you to scan through the text to locate the answer if you cannot remember it.
Super Readers Comprehensions Landmarks-this app provides 21 different non-fiction passages (approximately 3-5 paragraphs in length) and asks four to five related multiple choice comprehension questions for each one. It allows you to scan through the text to locate the answer if you cannot remember it.
Reading Comprehension Practice Grades 2-3-this app provides 40 different short narrative stories (approximately 1 paragraph in length) and asks four related multiple choice comprehension questions for each story. It also allows you to look back in the text for the answer if you cannot remember it.
Sentence Formulation/Story Generation Apps:
I Can Write 2-this app allows you to formulate complete sentences to describe pictures given a choice of words for each part of speech.
Story Maker-this app allows you to write your own stories as well as add in different types of illustrations, including draw your own pictures, clip art, or upload photos. You can also read the story and record it.
Toontastic-allows you to create your own story with various story elements: setting, characters, conflict, climax, and resolution. You record your story and can re-record if you want to make a change. You can use pre-made illustrations or create your own, and add music to each part of your story.
Little Bird Tales-allows you to write and record your own story and upload images and/or create your own drawings for illustrations.
Sentence Builder (AbiTalk Education System)-this app incorporates assembling words to make simple sentences to match the orally presented ones.
Homophones (AbiTalk Education System)-this app is a fill-in-the-blank sentence format given multiple choice options of homophones with and without corresponding visuals.
I Can Write 2-this app allows you to formulate complete sentences to describe pictures given a choice of words for each part of speech.
Story Maker-this app allows you to write your own stories as well as add in different types of illustrations, including draw your own pictures, clip art, or upload photos. You can also read the story and record it.
Toontastic-allows you to create your own story with various story elements: setting, characters, conflict, climax, and resolution. You record your story and can re-record if you want to make a change. You can use pre-made illustrations or create your own, and add music to each part of your story.
Little Bird Tales-allows you to write and record your own story and upload images and/or create your own drawings for illustrations.
Sentence Builder (AbiTalk Education System)-this app incorporates assembling words to make simple sentences to match the orally presented ones.
Homophones (AbiTalk Education System)-this app is a fill-in-the-blank sentence format given multiple choice options of homophones with and without corresponding visuals.
Social Skills Apps:
Social Express-shows clips of social situations and asks open-ended questions about them requiring the student to identify emotions and shows strategies to handle feelings/challenging situations.
Feel Electric-this app contains three different categories: My Games, My Stuff, and My Life, all which contain a variety of activities related to labeling moods/feelings.
Social Skill Builder-shows video clips from a social situation related to classroom behavior, peer interaction, rules and rituals, and social emotions, and asks multiple choice questions about that scene (e.g. teasing a peer).
What Are They Thinking Webber Photo Cards (Super Duper publication)-shows a picture of a person/persons doing an activity or in a situation with a thought bubble and you have to guess what they may be thinking. This app targets inferential reasoning and predicting skills.
Emotions-shows four facial expressions and you have to identify the correct one that corresponds to the feeling that is said.
Social Express-shows clips of social situations and asks open-ended questions about them requiring the student to identify emotions and shows strategies to handle feelings/challenging situations.
Feel Electric-this app contains three different categories: My Games, My Stuff, and My Life, all which contain a variety of activities related to labeling moods/feelings.
Social Skill Builder-shows video clips from a social situation related to classroom behavior, peer interaction, rules and rituals, and social emotions, and asks multiple choice questions about that scene (e.g. teasing a peer).
What Are They Thinking Webber Photo Cards (Super Duper publication)-shows a picture of a person/persons doing an activity or in a situation with a thought bubble and you have to guess what they may be thinking. This app targets inferential reasoning and predicting skills.
Emotions-shows four facial expressions and you have to identify the correct one that corresponds to the feeling that is said.
Articulation Apps:
ArtikPix-provides flashcards for all of the sounds in all word positions (initial, medial, and final) for practice in words in isolation as well as in sentences.
Articulation Station (Little Bee Speech)-provides practice for all of the sounds at the word, sentence, and story levels.
Minimal Pairs (SLP Tech Tools): provides minimal pairs words for various phonological processes, including: final consonant deletion, cluster reduction, stopping, fronting, prevocalic voicing, depatalization, and gliding. For example, for cluster reduction: "skate/kate."
Articulation Scenes: provides practice for all of the sounds in all word positions (initial, medial, and final), as well as consonant blends at the word, sentence, and story levels. For the word level, there are hidden pictures to find in a large scene. You click on the pictures and can practice saying the word by itself or make up a sentence with that word.
ArtikPix-provides flashcards for all of the sounds in all word positions (initial, medial, and final) for practice in words in isolation as well as in sentences.
Articulation Station (Little Bee Speech)-provides practice for all of the sounds at the word, sentence, and story levels.
Minimal Pairs (SLP Tech Tools): provides minimal pairs words for various phonological processes, including: final consonant deletion, cluster reduction, stopping, fronting, prevocalic voicing, depatalization, and gliding. For example, for cluster reduction: "skate/kate."
Articulation Scenes: provides practice for all of the sounds in all word positions (initial, medial, and final), as well as consonant blends at the word, sentence, and story levels. For the word level, there are hidden pictures to find in a large scene. You click on the pictures and can practice saying the word by itself or make up a sentence with that word.
Games/Makers:
*All of these apps are games that you can play while incorporating learning new vocabulary, following directions (listening comprehension), or generating your own instructions (verbal expression). For example: First, put the cupcakes in the oven. Next, put chocolate frosting on them. Last, put a hershey kiss on top.
My PlayHome-features different rooms in a house with moveable objects and family members.
Clicky Sticky-shows a variety of animals that you can change in quantity and size.
Cupcakes-create your own cupcake.
Sandwich-create your own sandwich.
Cloudy Shake-create your own shake.
Candy House-create your own candy house.
Salad Maker-create your own salad.
Burrito-create your own burrito.
Makeup Maker-choose and apply makeup to a character's face.
*All of these apps are games that you can play while incorporating learning new vocabulary, following directions (listening comprehension), or generating your own instructions (verbal expression). For example: First, put the cupcakes in the oven. Next, put chocolate frosting on them. Last, put a hershey kiss on top.
My PlayHome-features different rooms in a house with moveable objects and family members.
Clicky Sticky-shows a variety of animals that you can change in quantity and size.
Cupcakes-create your own cupcake.
Sandwich-create your own sandwich.
Cloudy Shake-create your own shake.
Candy House-create your own candy house.
Salad Maker-create your own salad.
Burrito-create your own burrito.
Makeup Maker-choose and apply makeup to a character's face.