Speech Therapy Toddler: Miogym 4+

A very useful app with speech therapy exercises

This application was recommended to me by my speech therapist.
In order for the child to do the exercises given by our speech therapist in an interactive way. At first, I was skeptical of this and thought that we will do exercises without app. But my child is very hyperactive and didn’t want to repeat after me. But when he sees other children do exercises in the app he repeats enthusiastically. I liked how the exercises are sorted and we play 2 levels every day, it is 6 exercises. We are already at level 30 and I can see that my child has got better control of his tongue and cheeks. These exercises help him to pronounce words better. At the first level, he could not pronounce the word “computer”, and now he speaks the word as an adult. Thanks for such a great app.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your re­view!

We are very glad that you like the app. In order to make a high-quality application, we have analyzed children's interactions with our application. We collected information from leading speech therapists. This made us aware that children subconsciously replicate other children's facial expressions. We have developed a unique program with pronunciation exercises for children. With each level, there are specially selected exercises that alternately develop the muscles of the tongue, the cheeks and jaws.
We congratulate you on reaching the 30th level. This is half of the ideal result. We hope as you reach the 100th level your child will speak very purely as an adult. We want to hear more of your feedback in the email about recognition and animation? What exercises do your child like best?
We also recommend using stickers in the message. Expect new app updates. Every time we want to add something new and exciting for the development of children. And your feedback helps us a lot. Thank you for new interesting ideas and stories about your experience using our app.

We try to do every­thing to make the ap­pli­ca­tion be use­ful for chil­dren.
If you have any ad­vice you can con­tact us by email info@mi­o­gym.­com and we will dis­cuss them in more de­tail.

Thank you!

From a speech therapist: DO NOT DOWNLOAD

I am a licensed speech language pathologist and YOU SHOULD NOT GET THIS APP!!!! This app uses non speech oral motor exercise (i.e., a technique that does not require a child to produce a sound) which are unethical and SHOULD NOT BE DONE. There is countless articles and literature that state explicitly why these exercise are counterproductive and not an appropriate treatment for speech sound errors! Just google “non speech oral motor exercises” and the top results will be articles discussing why these strategies are not recommended. Do not fool yourself into thinking moving your jaw around, blowing, or sticking out your tongue will improve your child’s articulation or speech production. If you’re working on imitation skills, fine go ahead, BUT DO NOT USE THESE EXERCISES FOR ARTICULATION OR PHONOLOGICAL THERAPY!!! Furthermore, the app is highly inaccurate! It wasn’t even directed at my face and it gave me credit. This could help your child practice things INACCURATELY and could further impede your practice. Go to a licensed speech therapist that does their research and stay away from apps like this!

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your re­view!
Our application has not only non speech oral motor exercises but also speech exercises.
The article notes that «Between 71.5% and 85% of practicing clinicians use some type of NSOMEs in therapy to change children's speech productions». Miogym app is an additional tool to improve the result of speech therapy and it is not positioned as the main therapy.

We will be happy to discuss your opinion in more detail. Please email us at info@miogym.com

Many factors affect the quality of recognition of an exercise. We had 2 versions of the application on the developing stage with different recognition configs. We gave them to the kids and watched them use different versions. One version of the application was completely controlled by recognition and the other was partially controlled. Most children could not perform the exercises correctly. And because of this, they were very upset and quickly lost interest in these exercises when the game was fully dependent on recognition.  Therefore, we have developed an algorithm that helps children do exercises without losing interest in doing them.

Speech Therapist

I am a certified speech therapist and I wanted to say thanks to the developers! The idea is great - here are collected effective exercises that really help the child to improve pronunciation and control their facial expressions better. Everything is very clear, even for a kid. We are really waiting new updates