Category Archives: Speech & Language

2018 ~ List of GREAT Apps for Everyday Learning

The following transcripts and quotes are from the E.A.T. chat hosted by Lauren Schwartz Enders 08/30/18. The quotes are from Lauren Scwartz Enders unless stated otherwise. The Facebook group Educational App Talk has a weekly event called EduAppTalk or E.A.T. every Thursday year-round. On 8/30/2018 the chat was hosted by Lauren Schwartz Enders, MA, CCC-SLP who is an expert in the field…

The NEW Bluebee Pals dedicated app is making inroads with multiple age groups with its suite of adorable minigames along with the inclusion of a vast teacher/parent resource section! You may remember recently reading about the new feature of a moving robotic head being added to these friendly, plush animals that are Bluetooth enabled and work with your phone or…

Peg and Pog – play, explore and learn first words with a choice of 5 languages

Peg and Pog a brand NEW App Release by Kenikeni Limited is introducing their spunky protagonists in the first of a series of apps designed to bring families together for quality screen time. We feel that Kenikeni along with their endearing characters, Peg, Pog, and their adorable cat, Cosmo have met and exceeded their goal of…

Phonics Museum by Veritas Press is a multimedia adventure through an awesome art museum, a scavenger hunt of sorts for exploring the fundamentals of beginning reading. This app opens with William about to enter an art museum and he is far from thrilled. Suddenly, Percival, a young knight appears and he whisks William away into a magical learning land. We soon meet Miss Biddle, the…

Total Talk is a new speech generating app

Total Talk is a robust new speech generating an app from Panther Technology, the creators of Tango. Total Talk was created with exceptional new and unique features to help strengthen the communication between AAC users and their communication partners. According to Total Talk’s creator, Panther Technology, “All of us have different approaches for different communication needs.…

Avaz FreeSpeech: Build Grammatically Correct Language – by Avaz, Inc. is a new innovative educational app that helps kids learn grammar and sentence structure by choosing a single word and expanding their thoughts through a series of wh- questions that create a “visual map” of their sentence. The question prompts help children to expand their…

I Can Have Conversations With You!

I Can Have Conversations With You! by Autism Breakthrough Solutions, LLC. What encompasses a conversation? Is it eye contact? Does it include gestures such as waving or shaking hands? Could it be that it includes understanding who and what you are discussing? These are some of the many aspects that Karen Kabaki-Sisto, M.S., CCC-SLP, the developer,…

TWA celebrates Eiry Rees Thomas and her award winning series about the Flitlits. After first encountering the Land of Fussbut, Seldom See, I was overwhelmed. How do you start in describing this incredible world? It is not like anything I have ever experienced before. Each word on the page is placed to make the whole…