november 7, 2012 michele rothstein m.a., ccc-slp
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November 7, 2012
Michele Rothstein M.A., CCC-SLP
*APPtastic- An Interactive, Language Focus
*Considerations
*Things to Consider Before Purchasing an App*Check the web for videos of the app in action
*Company, Google, YouTube
*Look for a “lite” version that is free/reduced price
*Be careful of in-app purchases
*Think about-Can I save data?, Will it start my child off at the point they left off?
*Story Creator(free)
*Allows you to use pictures and video to create a sequence, social story, retelling
*Can import pictures and videos ,has a microphone to record voice, has drawing tools
*Use for social skills*Video modeling of multiple skills together
*Social story using personalized pictures
*Use for building independent skills*Picture schedules/video schedules
*Language Skills*Story retell, story sequencing, grammar skills in
context,
sentence formulation
*Bag Game($1.99)
*Great game of 20 questions
*Answering and asking questions
*Perfect for expanding language to include feature, function, and class
*Great for auditory processing
*Play in reverse-child listens to description and has to guess
*Question Sleuth($1.99)
*Another great guessing game
*Can control/limit categories that items come from and field size
*Great for language description-feature, function, class
*Answering and asking questions
*Angry Birds(varies)
*Positional Concepts
*On top of, between, under, beneath, next to, above
*Adjective + Noun Combinations
*Red bird, Ice Bird, Blue Bird, Space bird, Black Bomber
*Mustache Pig, King Pig, Helmet Pig
*Verbs-Future, Present and Past Tenses
*Using screen shots will allow a child to create a story using all tenses
*Where Questions
*Where are the pigs?
*Where did the bird hit?
*Angry Birds
*First-then / Cause and Effect concepts
*Predictions-”What will happen if __?”
*TinyTap(free)
*Use personal pictures to create receptive lessons
*Create questions/statements about the picture to ask the child to identify a part of the picture as the answer
*Select or take a photo, create questions, play game
*Able to “circle” the correct answer to identify the correct part of the picture
*Wh- Questions
*Where is?, What is?, What do you?”
*Word Identification
* Touch __, Find the __, Show me__
*Feature Identification
* Touch what you write with
* Touch what is furry
*Food MakersCake, Cookie, Fondue Maker,
etc(free)
*Teaching verbs in a “natural” context while
completing the steps
*Mixing, cracking, whisking, baking, decorating, icing, frying
*Wonderful for teaching sequencing
*Screen shots to print out
*Screen shots to create story/slide show with recording for narration
*Using screen shots will allow you to target past tense verbs to describe what he/she did
*Language Builder Series
(various)
*Question Builder
*Language Builder
*Sentence Builder
*Rainbow Sentences
*Preposition Builder
*Story Builder
*Student Favorites-speech and language
apps-track user data
*Songify(free)
*Will turn anything you say into a song
*Conversations
*Reading
*Telling a Story
*My PlayHome($3.99)
*Imaginary “Virtual” Play*Great for students who are still working on play skills and the language associated with play skills
*Shows actions and items within “natural” context
*May serve as an intermediate step between adult facilitated play and independent play
*Subway Surfer(free)
*Working on automaticity of language and word retrieval*As the boy moves and races, call out the actions and directions
*Right/Left
*Over/Under/Up/Down
*Jump/Leap/Duck
*Things to Remember
*Apps do not replace instruction!!!
*Make iPad use as fun and interactive as possible!
*Use the iPad to reinforce a variety of skills for home and school.