Speech Sounds for Kids - Aus 4+
Carol Bishop
Designed for iPad
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- $5.99
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Description
Speech Sound for Kids is an app for promoting phonemic awareness, auditory discrimination and speech sound production using a multi-sensory approach.
This app can provide many hours of speech therapy and early literacy programming.
It is recommended for children aged approximately 4 years – 7 years, however younger and older children may find it useful depending on their individual needs. The app helps children produce and explore the 22 consonant sounds of English using a multi-sensory approach. It also allows for the users’ results to be recorded and sent to their therapist or teacher. It’s perfect for home practice!
Each of the sounds is represented by a friendly little character called a Sound Buddy. With the help of the Sound Buddies, children learn to identify, discriminate and produce each sound – and they start to learn letter-links too! The program has a strong emphasis on developing phonemic awareness and articulatory awareness too.
Animated stories, videos of a child’s mouth saying the sound and Hand sound cues are all provided to help the child learn each sound. The child can record the sound or word and listen to how they went, and these recordings can be saved to monitor progress.
Children can play games like colouring the Sound Buddy (Touch when you hear the sound), Who said that sound? Who said that word? and matching games of varying degrees of difficulty.
In time, children become familiar with more and more Sound Buddies, thus increasing in their phonemic awareness (speech sound awareness) and understanding of correct speech sound production. Listening and production tasks are provided for both single sounds and also for each of the sounds in words. There are over 300 fun pictures to help with word practice!
Several sounds can be combined in tasks after they have been “studied” individually, allowing children to develop a strong awareness of the similarities and differences between sounds.
Phonemic awareness (speech sound awareness) has a causal relationship to reading and spelling development. When children become aware of individual sounds in words, they can begin to “map” them on to letters. Articulatory awareness is the knowledge of the articulation required for each sound. Studies show that individuals with dyslexia have weak articulatory awareness and training in this domain can increase performance on literacy tasks.
The Goals of the App
1) To help children learn about and practise specific sounds required for clear speech.
2) To heighten children’s awareness of sounds (phonemic awareness) which is vital for speech therapy tasks and which is a strong predictor for success in literacy-learning
3) To heighten children’s articulatory awareness and auditory awareness of sounds (phonemes) which has been shown to assist children who have reading difficulties.
Scope of the App
There are five main parts to the app which work towards achieving the goals listed above. They are:-
1) learn to identify and make a specific sound (as represented by a Sound Buddy)
2) learn to identify and make specific sounds in the first position of words
3) learn to distinguish and produce different sounds (from the current set of sounds being studied) .
4) learn to distinguish and produce different sounds in the initial position of words (from the current set of sounds being studied)
5) build a bank of familiar sounds that can be identified and produced as single sounds and also in the initial position of words
This is the Australian voice version. A US voice version is also available in the App Store.
What’s New
Version 1.3
Fixed a bug where recordings were not being automatically replayed when complete
Updated to support the latest devices
Ratings and Reviews
Fantastic app for speech!
A great app that helps kids learn to identify and say all the speech sounds in a fun, interactive way.
It is easy to use with lots of different tasks so the kids don't get bored too quickly. One of the best features of this app compared with others is that the kids can record their own speech and listen to it play back.
Even though it is targeted at children aged between 4-7 years, it can easily be used by younger children with some adult assistance to encourage their discrimination and production of sounds or by older children who need some extra practice at these skills to assist with their speech or literacy.
It is perfect as an interactive way for kids to do some home practice in between speech therapy sessions.
This app is definitely worth it's price, as it's such a professional, versatile and feature packed app created by a Speech Pathologist.
App Privacy
The developer, Carol Bishop, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Carol Bishop
- Size
- 144.2 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Carol Bishop, Richard Homburg and Lucia Smith 2014
- Price
- $5.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.