Congratulations to Annie Doyle who won this giveaway!
This week I will be reviewing—and giving away copies of—apps from Virtual Speech Center!
I had a chance to meet one of the co-founders at ASHA this year and was excite to take a look at what they have to offer. I’d used Post Office for sequencing before, but was curious to try some of their other options. I’m so glad I did! My kiddos have been much more engaged with these apps! (Please note, that while I was given a copy of each app reviewed here and a code to giveaway, opinions expressed are strictly my own.)
Articulation Vacation (version 1.5)
Oh, those artic kiddos, especially the ones working on articulation of R. Boy, can they linger! I LOVE having extra speech activities up my sleeve for them (and me) and these were really fun!
I really appreciated that it included lots of phoneme targets. Each l, s and r blend was addressed separately and there were vocalic /r/ separations as well.
Within each phoneme, you have the option to choose the position and even (de)select specific words and choose word, phrase or story level.
The story level is a great option to have, but there is only one story/target.
Once you’ve selected your target, you can start to play. The first activity you see is a man in a fishing boat. Tap on him and he pulls an object out of the water. A speech bubble to the side gives you the written prompt. You can have the app say the word for you and/or record your own voice. Just like Phonological Processes, you can keep track of trials and stay on each word for as many trials as you want. Press the arrow to move to the next activity/target.
Now we’re presented with a picture partially buried in the sand. Swipe to uncover the entire picture and say the word.
Smile! It’s time to take a photo. Scan the horizon until a target word shows up in the viewfinder (the button turns green as an additional clue.) Press the shutter button and a Polaroid style photo pops out. Again, say the target word.
The final game is everyone’s favorite! The pictured object parachutes above the water and you try to drop it on the raft.
In settings, you can choose to stick with one game or run between all of them (you can set the number of stimuli you want before the game changes). But my kiddos LOVED the parachuting game so much, I left mine in the default setting which changes the activity after each trial. They stuck with this FOREVER waiting for more parachute chances!
The app stores data on multiple users and allows reports to be emailed. The app allows for multiple uses within a session with different targets and stores data on each.
For more information, click here.
Hope to win your own copy? Leave a comment below letting me know where you’d like to go vacation if you had the chance to leave tomorrow (and it was paid for)! The winner will be drawn at random. You have until midnight EST on January 31, 2016 to enter. Good luck!
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Would love to go to Bali!
IRELAND, AND I wouldn’t HESITATE!
Italy!!! Tuscany for sure ❤️
We would go to Chile and Spain.
Australia!
New Zealand!
I would love to go to Greece.
I would like to go to New Zealand…as was told to me, “Nobody regrets going to New Zealand.
Scotland is on my bucket list!
I would go to Italy!
Maui:)
I would head for somewhere tropical…
Hawaii! it’s on my bucket list (ahead of the safari….ha!)
Kauai!
Hoping to crusie the British Isles this year.
I would love to go to Kenya.
Europe! Anyplace in Europe! I love how old everything is! I love the history! I love the architecture, the museums, the food! I could go on!!!
Ireland to go biking !!!!!
I would like to go to Italy! Thanks for the opportunity to possibly win this app-it looks great!
St. Lucia 🙂
Tahiti! It’s so cold here.
Israel
If it was paid for??? Hallelujah! Anywhere in Europe…I’d love to go to Spain, Austria, England, Ireland… anywhere other than being stuck here at home! :0)
Scotland!
Australia and New Zealand. In a heartbeat. I’ve ALWAYS wanted to go there, and having a professor from NZ didn’t help my urge 🙂
Argentina or Brasil! Somewhere warm =) [email protected]
I would definitely go to Ireland or somewhere tropical.
Oh, heavens! Send me on a trip to the British Isles!
I would love to go backpacking in Europe!!!
Spain!
Spain. Or New Zealand. Or The Netherlands. 🙂
I would go all around Europe!
Hmmmm lets see…..Ecuador
Italy and Austrailia would be my top picks 🙂
I would love to travel to Australia! After that…any place tropical and warm since I live in a snowbelt 🙂
There are so many places I want to see but if I was told I could go anywhere tomorrow I think I’d choose lovely Thailand
I’d love to go back to Italy and take my husband with me. Couldn’t get enough of it when I went in high school on a school trip.
I would love to go to Australia.
Australia!
Europe! 🙂
Italy would be wonderful!!
I would LOVE to go to Jamaica!!!
Costa Rica! (Sorry…my caps lock is stuck on:)
never mind–it changed to lower case once it posted
I’d go to Italy!
I would love to go to Hawaii!
I would love to go to Australia!
My top two picks would be Australia or Hawaii 🙂
Oh gosh! There are so many places I would love to go. I really love warm tropical places but I really loved Germany also. I would probably choose to return to Europe.
Sounds crazy, but Southwest Florida. Fairly quick flight, and I’d be able to visit family and friends who have moved to FL from the northeast.
Italy!
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