Articulation Scenes brings smarty reading program with picture scenes articulation practice to a whole new level! This app, competing as one of the best articulation games, developed and designed by a certified speech language pathologist allows children to practice their sounds with a variety of engaging and fun activities centered around the cinema theme, hence acting like a basic concepts skills screener.
For articulation games loving children who need practice with one of the most targeted phonemes in speech therapy sessions / r/ , we have included one scene per each separate type of the sound “r : [ pre-vocalic, blends, air, ar, ear, ire, or, rl ].
The second activity on Articulation Scenes is the “ Tap & Say it activity”. This is the first of three activities targeting speech production in this app with all the best features of articulation games.
Children tap on the items on the scene, which are isolated allowing the therapist to track and monitor their productions. As users tap on the target items on each scene, the item is isolated which allows the child to attempt producing the word and allows the supervising adult to determine if the production was correct, incorrect, or almost there.
The Tap & Say it activity also award point to the child based on whether the production was “missed”, “ almost” or “ got it”. It is possible to hear a pre-recorded audio of each word by tapping on the image.
“This is exactly what it sounds like! The child taps on target words in each scene and the picture pops up bigger. Here the therapist (parent/teacher) has data recording tools (missed it, almost, and got it). This keeps track of accuracy in our online articulation games for you!
There is also an option to record the child’s voice for instant personal feedback. What I really like is that you can practice each word as many times as you want. To get more practice you can have the child say each word 3 times! When you are finished with the scene it provides a nice report with percentage of accuracy. Again you can also use this game for vocabulary building for those kids who have language and articulation goals!” Panda Speech
Articulation Scenes includes exciting stories for the scenes. The level 3 allows children to listen to each story, and target sound in connected speech. This is an important step for mastery of the target sound. Children get the opportunity to listen to a story using the target words.
This is the activity that engages children in real-time like in is that silly? and allows them to either create their own stories, record them and continue to practice with the help of articulation games.
The Production Room offers two options: Option 1: Designed for younger students that are not yet reading and, Option 2: This one was designed for older students that could benefit from practicing sound production during with a reading task.
The option 1 leads the child to a screen containing the scene and a voice recorder. On this option children are allowed to use their imagination to create any story they would like using the visual scene provided. Once they record the story they get to return to the movie theater and listen to their story played at the movie theater. To complete the recording, tap on the stop button and then the “All Done” button.
The option 2 takes students to a screen where they will use the written story in a teleprompter to record their voice as a part of playing this articulation game for language and speech therapy.
Data tracking capabilities and exciting reward activities are also some of the great features on Articulation Scenes. The Report card page includes a lot of information regarding the child’s product such as accuracy, total number of practices, first and last date of practice, etc…
The results can be emailed or printed directly from your iPad using an air printing ready printer.
We have completed the application by adding homework sheets containing the words included on each scene that can be sent home for further practice by articulation games lovers. Clinicians can use the pdf files to send home, or to create other activities based on the application.
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