Hi everyone,
In honor of their 4 year birthday, Duck Duck Moose will have the app “Wheels on the bus” for free to download starting today Friday January 25th- Sunday January 27th. This app is great for early learners, as well as using it for the following: following simple directions, describing, imitating, and much more. I strongly suggest going to the following link and downloading it while its free!
Click here to download Wheels on the bus. (itunes only)
Price: $2.99 iPad, $1.99 Nook
Seller: Software Smoothie
Tablet: iPad, Nook
Educational Aspects:
Targets a wide variety of language goals including:
Description:
Felt Board is modeled after felt boards used by children, storytellers, and teachers. Users can choose from a variety of backgrounds, characters, animals, numbers, letters, and scenery for hours of learning through play.
Review:
Felt Board is a versatile app that is simple enough to target a wide variety of language goals. Children and adults will be familiar with the layout and concept because it is designed after felt boards used in schools. The layout easy to use and look is beautiful with bright colors and simple shapes of all items. Users can select a wide range of backgrounds and items from a categorized side bar to add to a scene and address language goals such as, categorizing, naming/labeling, story-telling, following directions, and describing (just to name a few). Users can also take quick pictures of a scene to be discussed/described later, or to create a saved story sequence. Scrolling and selecting items can be difficult as items are added if they are touched and the scroll bar is very small. However, mistakes can be easily removed by dragging items to the trash.
Pros: Cons:
Felt Board is an exceptional application for children of all ages. It is simple and versatile with an intuitive layout and unlimited imaginative possibilities.
Below are some promotional codes for Felt Board on iPad ONLY.
Click to view and/or purchase Felt Board for iPad
Click to view and/or purchase Felt Board for Nook
Lillian Vosa, M.S., CCC-SLP
Here are the last 10 codes I have for VideoTouch-Animals. If you got VideoTouch-Vehicles, DO NOT take a code. They are the SAME app! Please like us and mention us on your Facebook and to your friends and family! Thanks and good luck 🙂
Price: 1.99
Seller: Bonnier Digital Services AB
Tablet: iPad
Educational Aspects:
Description:
Toca Hair Salon puts you in charge of being a hairdresser! With a variety of six characters to choose from and multiple tools found in a real hair salon, there are endless possibilities to what can be done.
Review:
Toca Hair Salon is one of the most entertaining, visually appealing, fun yet educational apps available in the App store. You will know when you have found a Toca Boca app because their kid friendly, rainbow-smile exposed mouth will be showcased in the bottom right corner. Once you venture into this app, your ipad screen will be transformed into a virtual hair salon. Their unique layout, and simple design make this app extremely easy to use and operate. As a therapist, targeting goals with this app can’t get any easier. It allows us to work on verbs and pronouns as our client(s) sequence out the steps to a haircut. When you’re all done with your virtual creation, you can also practice retelling the hair salon steps. Additionally, it allows us to work on some of the harder goals in therapy, such as attending (staying on a task/activity for a specific amount of time). As if all of these reasons weren’t enough, Toca Boca Hair Salon provides kids and teens with a creative outlet. This allows them to make the ultimate decisions in “what looks cool” and transform their character’s hair into their own personal vision.
Pros: Cons:
Toca Boca in my opinion has conquered and paved the way for great apps in the App store. They have a practical price point, outstanding graphics & animation, educational based apps, and a huge fan base.
Be the first to enter the promo codes below to download Toca Hair Salon for free!
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Click to view and/or purchase Toca Hair Salon
Andrea Flynn, B.A., SLPA
Hey everyone,
I just wanted to let you know that Toca Boca put their doctor app for free in the App Store today to honor “back to school” week. This is a great app with lots of educational content that usually costs $1.99. You can click on the link below to find and download it for FREE today.
Click here to view/download Toca Boca Doctor
Price: $9.99
Seller: Hamaguchi Apps for Speech, Language & Auditory Development
Tablet: iPad
Educational Aspects:
Provides simple to multi-step directions including:
Provides reinforcing sounds and animations for correct answers
Description:
FUN with Directions is an engaging app used to target listening and following directions skills. There are 10 concepts (give, touch, open, close, top, middle, bottom, push, color, erase) to choose from and three different levels within the settings (easy, intermediate, advanced).
Review:
FUN with directions is an aesthetically pleasing app with child-friendly pictures and easy-to-use settings. The user is able to select the appropriate level for the child as well as which concepts will be targeted. Voice commands, other sound features, and text settings are also customizable. Correct answers are rewarded with simple sounds and animations that provide some built-in reinforcement. The three level settings (easy, intermediate, advanced) are very broad with large gaps in ability between each and the user is not able to select specifics within each level (i.e. 1 vs. 2 step directions). Additionally, on some pages within the levels, only the correct item will move which provides the child with unintentional cues as well as limiting the user to the direction given (i.e. no spontaneous or follow-up directions). This app is also a bit overpriced, however it can be used to address a variety of goals or concepts of varying skill levels.
Pros: Cons:
Fun With Directions is a simple and user-friendly app that successfully targets single and multistep directions through a variety of concepts.
Click to view and/or purchase FUN with Directions.
Provided by: Lillian Vosa, M.S., CCC-SLP
