Profile of Phonological Awareness (Pro-PA) by Smarty Ears
Unleash effective speech and literacy development with our most advanced, culturally responsive assessment tool yet.
Pro-PA is a groundbreaking app created in collaboration with speech-language pathologist Tanya Coyle and the team at Smarty Ears. Designed for educators, clinicians, and parents, it facilitates early identification, assessment, and intervention in phonological awareness skills, setting a new standard in speech, language, and literacy development.
Now completely redesigned with a gorgeous modern interface and industry-leading bilingual support, Pro-PA makes evaluating foundational literacy skills more intuitive, accurate, and inclusive than ever.
Key Features & 2026 Enhancements
NEW: Culturally & Linguistically Responsive: Pro-PA now allows you to comprehensively track a student's language exposure, including their Primary, Home, and Classroom languages.
NEW: Dynamic Bilingual Reporting: When generating reports for bilingual students, the app automatically embeds a "Clinical Note on Bilingualism," protecting clinicians and ensuring scores are interpreted holistically with cross-linguistic transfer in mind.
Beautifully Redesigned Interface: Enjoy a distraction-free, modern iPadOS experience featuring floating student cards and a clean, perfectly padded testing interface. During active administration, vibrant capsule buttons provide instant visual feedback for "Correct," "Missed," and "Not Administered" items.
Smart Tracking & Visual Analysis: View student progress at a glance with stunning new color-coded donut charts and progress bars.
Professional, Instant Reporting: Generate highly readable, perfectly formatted PDF reports that feature comprehensive student metadata—including their full Language Profile—right in the header. Easily print or email these reports to support collaboration among IEP team members and parents.
Comprehensive Evaluation: An essential resource for evaluating children aged three years and older, with tasks appropriate for learners of all ages to develop early reading, writing, and speech skills.
Time-Efficient Administration: Customize test content, skip sections when needed, and reduce testing time without sacrificing accuracy—ideal for busy professionals.
Group Assessment: Evaluate and manage multiple students, easily identifying similar skill levels across a classroom for targeted, data-driven intervention.
Areas Assessed
Rhyming: Identification and production
Blending: Syllables and sounds
Isolating: First, middle, and last sounds
Segmenting: Words, syllables, and sounds
Deleting: Syllables and first sound
Substituting: First and last sound
Consonant clusters with special attention
Who is it for?
Pro-PA is perfect for educators working with groups, speech-language pathologists who need a robust, culturally responsive assessment tool, and parents who want to support their child’s phonological development.
Why choose Pro-PA?
Built on extensive research and clinical best practices.
Developed by industry experts at Smarty Ears.
A pioneer in inclusive, special-education technology.
From the makers of Smarty Ears—leaders in speech and communication disorder technology—Pro-PA brings you an inclusive tool perfectly tailored to modern education needs.
Download now and take the first step toward more inclusive, individualized, and data-driven education with the power of Pro-PA at your fingertips!
This app is a great tool for progress monitoring. The data collected makes progress notes and IEPs a breeze to update. My kids love anything on the iPad and I do not feel guilty giving them more screen time with Smarty Ears apps.
Great app for baseline and follow up data
LeetaLeet
I LOOOVE this app. I work at a school that is VERY rigorous with kindergarteners expected to read quite well before entering first grade. As we SLP's know, a lot of our articulation kiddos with phonological orders have difficulty with phonological awareness. The app is very easy to use and I love the counter that the kids can use to segment words. The results are easy to print and/or email to teachers. I try to give it to my kiddos three times during the school year. I love seeing their percentages increase over the course of the year! And, I've never given a copy to a teacher who didn't agree with the results. It would be even better if there were graphs for us more visual peeps :-)
Great Phono App!
hbogen
This app is a great tool for assessing students' phonological awareness in a concise, easy-to-use package. Smarty ears has made it very easy to analyze the results by color-coding the subsections of the overall test so you can see exactly where a particular student needs extra work. Despite covering a fair amount of ground, the test is pretty quick to administer, and you always have the option to skip a section if it's not appropriate for that child. All in all, I highly recommend this app to anyone who works with kids who have (or are suspected to have) phonological deficits! Money well spent!
Great app for beginning of the year evaluation.
speechlanguageplay
I love this app the evaluate how a student has progressed from year to year. It allows me to quickly evaluate a students phonological awareness and then shows me visually with color coding how a student did in each sections. It allows to stop and start tests again, to skip sections and to only admonister the sections I want to give. I appreciate this tool and highly reccomend it.
Version 9.1: The 2026 Modernization & Bilingual Support Update
We are thrilled to bring you a massive update to the Profile of Phonological Awareness (ProPA)! Version 9.1 introduces a stunning new iPadOS design, powerful new tools for assessing bilingual students, and major upgrades to your report generation.
Gorgeous New 2026 UI & Branding
Modern iPadOS Feel: We’ve completely refreshed the app's interface with floating cards, beautifully rounded pill-shaped menus, and high-end frosted glass backgrounds.
Fresh Color Palette: The app now features a gorgeous new "Deep Violet" and "Electric Blue" branding system that is easier on the eyes, highly accessible, and perfectly matches our updated icon.
Better Data Visualization: We’ve updated our donut charts and progress bars so that "0%" scores and "Not Administered" sections are visually distinct at a glance.
Culturally & Linguistically Responsive Assessment
New Language Exposure Profiles: You can now track a student’s Primary Language, Home Language, and Classroom Language directly in their profile, along with a new "Bilingual" toggle.
Dynamic Clinical Notes: When you generate a report for a bilingual student, ProPA now automatically injects a professional "Clinical Note on Bilingualism." This note officially documents the student's primary language and explains that cross-linguistic transfer is expected—ensuring scores are interpreted holistically and protecting you as the evaluating SLP.
Version 9.1
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Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
Seller
Smarty Ears, LLC
Size
21.5 MB
Category
Education
Compatibility
Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
