SoundTouch

My son is hard of hearing and has some vision impairment. He loves to listen to the sounds and look at all of the animals. I was happy to learn the new update now has sight words added to the pictures. I do think that the color of the words, the greyish background and font style needs to be re-considered for a young person learning to read AS WELL as a child who is visually impaired. The font style needs to be a standard font used in textbooks, a larger size and needs to have a enough contrast between it and it's background color to be read. I understand that you didn't want to cover the pictures with the words, but the word box is too 'visually crowded' to be read easliy. If you squint while trying to read it you will see what I mean. The strokes in the font are also too close together. Otherwise I love this app.***back again! Thank you so much for adjusting the font style! It is so much better now. I also agree with a couple of the therapists who commented about adding a sound identification feature to be used in Audio Visual Therapy. Kids and adults with cochlear implants as well as kids with hearing loss would benefit by having an option to either choose from a few pictures to tell what sound is being played or even just having a way for the voice/text identifier to be delayed to allow for a guess. Good work!

This app has many great features for kids with disabilities. It helps kids relate a cartoon character with a real picture. Also a single touch advances the screen. You can touch anywhere and not be taken out of the app by mistake. You can't go wrong! My teenage daughter has both physical and cognitive delays, but apps that she is physically able to activate are made for children much younger (usually less than 9 months old). These apps can be very repetitive and not hold her attention. This app is not at all repetitive and therefore holds her attention, especially the musical instrument portion. Great variety of musical genre!The only drawback is that she touches what she wants multiple times. This does cause the sound to start over with each touch. It would be helpful if there were an option to stop multiple touches from restarting the response each time. I also agree with an earlier review that it would be nice to have the category buttons at the top so they aren't bumped while reaching for another picture. It would also be nice to have a quiz option to allow it to be turned into a game. But despite these things, this is one of the best apps I have seen for kids with disabilities (and for kids without disabilities).

This is an app that shows pictures of items in six categories: domestic animals, wild animals, birds, vehicles, instruments, and household items. There are 12 items per category (for example, 12 animals in the domestic animals category, including sheep, duck, horse, frog, goat, etc.). When you touch an item, cow for example, it brings up a picture, says "cow," and then plays a cow sound. The name of the item is also displayed on the screen. The best part is that there are five pictures and sounds per item (for example, five different pictures of a horse, five different pictures of a sheep, etc.), for a total of 60 images in each category. This makes it very entertaining and kids don’t get bored easily. It is easy to navigate for little ones with large animal icons and a tap anywhere on the screen to move from a picture back to the menu (or the option of an arrow). D’s vocabulary and pronunciation have been greatly improved by this app. There are also about 30 languages currently available.