iaccess language - ipad apps for early language development

iAccess LanguageiPad Apps for Language Development

Gwendolyn Meier Eberhard, SLP, MT Villa Esperanza Services Speech & Language Center

Disclosures

• Volunteer speaker

• No affiliation with any of the products described, their developers, or lackeys

• Director of Villa Esperanza Speech & Language Clinic in Pasadena

Agenda

• Speech vs. Language

• Language Goals

• App Matching

• Ready-to-use Apps

• Creative Apps

Learning Objectives 1. Match an app to an early language-learner’s

treatment goal

2. Identify no fewer than two ready-to use apps that can be used to address building language skills in early language learners

3. Identify a ready-to-use app that can be used to address syntax/word order

4. Identify two language goals that can be addressed through the use of creative/customizable apps

Speech vs. LanguageThe means of communicating !

• Articulation !

• Voice !

• Fluency !!!

Shared rules of the symbolic system !

• What words mean • How to make new

words • How to put words

together • What word

combinations are best in what situations

Language Domains

• Vocabulary

(aka. semantics, word meanings, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, pronouns, )

Language Domains

• Vocabulary

• Grammar

(aka. syntax, word order, verb agreement, complete sentences)

Language Domains

• Vocabulary

• Grammar

• Concepts

(categories, opposites, location, direction, time relationships, emotions)

Language Domains

• Vocabulary

• Grammar

• Concepts

• Understanding

(receptive language, making sense of what you hear and read)

What are your student’s language goals?

•Vocabulary •Grammar •Concepts •Understanding

Language Goals• Multi-word utterances,

Grammatically correct sentences

• Answering Questions: Wh-Questions, Yes/No

• Categories, Word Relationships, Similarities and Differences, Compare and Contrast, Definitions

• Verbs: Past tense, future tense

• Story problems (math)

• Parts of speech:

• Adjectives (colors, number, describing words)

• Prepositions (under, between, above)

• Pronouns (he, she, they)

• Negatives, Synonyms, Antonyms...

App Match

Goal Goal Goal

app appapp

First ask:

What is the goal?

!

Then ask:

Is there an app for that?

Bad App Match1.Really great looking

app. 2.How can my student

benefit?

Goalapp

App Match1.Really great looking

app. 2.How can my student

benefit?

Goalapp

Warning #1: Goals Guide Activities

• This is what the teacher or SLP will do when they individualize any learning activity to your student’s needs

Needs Goals Activities

Warning #2: Apps are Not Language Therapy

• But they can help us help students!

• Many times, the app is most useful when structured and/or mediated by an adult

Warning #3: Apps are Not Communication

• The essential aspect of communication should be in face-to-face interaction and play, not on a computer or app

First Phrases• Early language development

• 2- to 4-word phrases

• Animations bring verbs to life

• Record your voice speaking the phrase

• Text - ON or OFF

First Phrases• Easy - touch anywhere and it reads to you

• Normal - touch each part of the phrase

• Challenge - drag words in order

Easy, Normal Challenge

Let’s play a round

• Level - Normal

Let’s play a round

• Level - Normal

• Text OFF

Let’s play a round

• Level - Normal

• Text OFF

• 3-part phrase

Let’s play a round

• Level - Normal

• Text OFF

• 3-part phrase

on the iPad!

First Phrases

• Verbs: Close, cut, drink, drive, drop, eat, kick, open, play, pop, pour, pull, push, ride, roll, throw, wash, go on, jump off, jump on, jump over, put away, put on, sleep on, step over, take off, take out, turn off, turn on

• Lite: Close, drink, drive, sleep on, turn on

Additional Language Targets

• Unlock Girl and Boy characters to create your own phrases and target pronouns

He

She

First PhrasesAdditional Language Targets:

• Pause the animation and talk about what the character did (past tense)

Picture the Sentence• Auditory processing

• Create a picture of what you hear in your mind

• Auditory working memory - hear and retain

• Respond to multiple cues - Attend to the important elements

• Find a corresponding picture

Picture the Sentence• Hear and see a phrase (option for audio only)

• Wait time between is optional (5-40 seconds)

• Then choose the best picture

Picture the Sentence• 3 Levels of Difficulty

• Easy - visuals stay, slow presentation

!

• Intermediate - visuals flashed, moderate

!

• Advanced - no visuals, moderate-fast

!

• Text with the presentation - ON or OFF

Picture the Sentence• Visual cues - color drawings, stick figures, none

• Nouns (boy, girl) or pronouns (he, she, they)

• Simple sentence types:

• subject+verb

• subject+verb+object

• subject+verb+prepositional phrase

• subject+verb+object+prepositional phrase

Picture the SentenceRespond to multiple cues:

“The children are drinking orange juice on the couch”

Picture the Sentence“The children are drinking orange juice on the couch”

Picture the Sentence• Progress tracking

Apps for Similar Goals

• Splingo’s Language Universe

!

• Auditory Workout

Fun with Directions

More Fun with Directions

Fun with Directions• Easy -

• (No foils) Color the ball. Close the window.

!

• (Field of 3) Open the door on top. Give the girl a bed.

Fun with Directions• Intermediate

• (F:5) Touch something that says meow.

• Look on the middle shelf. There is something yellow. Put it in the basket.

• Open a red door on the top row. On the bottom row, open a red door.

Fun with Directions• Advanced

• (F:5) Touch something you make by blowing on it.

• Look for something on the middle shelf that goes on a foot. Put it in the basket.

• Open the second door in the bottom row.

• Give the boy without a hat or glasses something that you put food on. It goes on a table.

Fun with DirectionsFWD Concepts:

• Location words (bottom, middle, top)

• Actions (erase, touch, open, close, push, give)

• Colors

!

More FWD:

• Location words (above, below, behind, in front, on, under, up, down)

• Actions (put in, take out, turn on, turn off)

Fun with Directions & More Fun with Directions

GOALS:

• Auditory memory

• Auditory processing

• Following directions

• Spatial concepts

Fun with Directions• Progress tracking - similar to Picture the Sentence

Social Language

• Level 1, Level 2, Advanced (teen/adult)

• 3 Activities (65-75 tasks per activity)

1. Listening & Facial Expressions

2. Body Language & Perspective-Taking

3. Idioms & Slang

Back-To-$chool $ALE

• 30-50% off all Hamaguchi Apps

• Through 9/15/14X

Apps from

Preposition Builder

• Drag the word to fill in a blank

• Reading required

Preposition Builder

Most Important:

• Settings

• Play

Preposition Builder

• Settings changes the set

• Correction procedure

• Audio recording

• Progress tracking

Preposition Builder

Preposition Builder

Preposition Builder+Correction+

Rainbow Sentences

• Formulate sentences about what you see

• Order the words

• Word grouping

• Color coding

• Progress tracking

Rainbow Sentences

• Listen back - Play

• Check your work - I’m done

• Extra step: Recall and retell your sentence

More Advanced Language Goals

Categories Learning Center

• Categorization: Important skill for language development and processing

• Organizing thoughts and ideas

• Prerequisite for describing skills, recognizing similarities and differences, comparing and contrasting

Categories Learning Center• 5 games

• Multi-player (up to 4)

• Progress tracking

Categories Learning Center

• Sorting 1 & 2

Dissimilar Objects Similar Objects

Categories Learning Center• Where does it go?

Categories Learning Center

• Category Naming (no prompts, monitoring required for scoring)

• Category Selection (4 text prompts)

Categories Learning Center

• Extension activity - Name one MORE member of this category (not pictured)

Creative / Customizable Apps

My Play Home• Virtual, interactive dollhouse

• Categorized contents by room

• Various characters

• Many actions possible

• Hours of fun!

My Play Home Stores• 4 Stores with employees

• Grocery, Produce, Ice Cream, Clothing

• Two apps connect

My Play Home• Solo play

• Great for promoting symbolic concept development, reinforcing categories

• Together play

• Unlimited expressive and receptive language possibilities!

• (Adult holds the iPad)

Barrier Games• 2 or more players

• Some kind of barrier(s) so that players cannot see each others materials (books, file folders, or binders can work as barriers)

• Same set of materials

• Without any visual cues

• Goal: Give and receive directions on how to arrange the materials

• All players’ materials look the same at the end of the activity

Barrier GamesPick a room or store and arrange items and people in a certain way.

Take a screen shot, send it to a computer and print

• Receptive: Give the student the iPad with a “tidied” room and give spoken instructions on where things should go, which elements to change

• Expressive: Give the student the print out and have them tell YOU where each element needs to be placed

• Receptive: Give the student the iPad with a “tidied” room and give spoken instructions on where things should go, which elements to change

• Expressive: Give the student the print out and have them tell YOU where each element needs to be placed (you have the iPad)

More GoalsWord Comprehension

• Backyard: Touch the watering can, Point to a flower

Following Directions

• Kids Bedroom: Put the girl in bed

• Bathroom: Turn on the shower then brush the boy’s teeth

• Kitchen: Open the fridge and take out a piece of pizza

Prepositions

• Bathroom: Put the shampoo under the sink

More GoalsTime Concepts

• Living room: Before you go to the kitchen, turn off the stereo

Problem Solving

• Kid’s Bedroom: What will make it brighter in this room?

Social Skills

• Any room: Provide dialog for the characters, greet, ask questions, comment

Dr. Panda’s Day Care• Similar features, plus ongoing actions

• Present progressive tense -ing

Bouncing

Rocking

Book Creator

• By: Red Jumper Studio

• Create “books” that include photos, video, text, drawing, music

• Record narration on each page to make an “audio book” students can read to themselves

Book Creator

• Expository writing - gives information

• Narrative writing - tells a story

• Create personalized, talking flashcards for any subject

Planets flashcards

• Export to iBooks and read on the iPad (within the book)

• Export as a PDF and email it

• Print from your iPad or computer

Book Creator• Consumption - books you write for them

• Production - books they write themselves (or with help)

Written by three, 4th grade students who have autism

FREE in the iBooks Store “Social Skills Volume 1”

Book CreatorEndless possibilities:

• “What I did on my vacation...”

• Record lines for a play to aid memorization

• Create a Social Story for a new experience

• Video yearbook

Puppet Pals

Puppet Pals HD: Directors Pass

!

(Any photo)

Puppet Pals 2: All Access

!

(Heads only)

Puppet Pals

• Create short animations

• Use your own photos or images from online

• Help reluctant public speakers present to the class

• Help English language learners practice

Puppet Pals

• Storytelling

• Historical retell

• Book reports

• Oral reports

Tactilly

• Create personally relevant photo albums

• Use your own photos or pics from the web

• Hotspots that talk

• Unlimited pages

Tactilly• Any Language Domain can be addressed

• Albums for each student’s goals

• (Speech too - articulation targets with an auditory model)

• Consumption - Albums made for them

• Production - Students can create too!

Tactilly

Tactilly

Tactilly

Guided Access

Disable the Home button locks you into

an app

Restrict touch access to

certain areas of the screen

Warnings

1. Goals guide activities

2. Apps are not language therapy in and of themselves

3. Apps are not communication

• Slideshow

• Slides Handout

• App handout

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Have an Appy Day!

Gwendolyn Meier Eberhard, SLP, MT Villa Esperanza Services Speech & Language Center

geberhard@villaesperanzaservices.org