By Magic Words Speech and Language Therapist, Susan Woodley
At Magic Words Online our online speech therapy platform has a fantastic range of built in communication apps. Here’s a selection of the apps we use in our online speech therapy and a bit about how they can help with a variety of different communication difficulties.
Auditory Workout
This app looks at following instructions and is recommended for use with children aged 4-10. It helps develop children’s key word understanding of language and understanding of concepts such as prepositions (positional language), size and colour. There are over 1000 different instructions on the app, meaning it can be tailored specifically to a child’s needs. It uses engaging colourful pictures and with every correct answer the child earns a basketball. Once the child has earned 5 basketballs, they can play a game!
Articulation Carnival
This is a great app for children with speech sound difficulties. It can support children at every stage of their speech sound therapy. From working at producing the sound in words, phrases and sentences. The therapist can go through flashcards relating to the target sound or can play a memory game with the client.
Social Skills with Billy
This app can be used to help develop social skills, so is useful for working with our clients that have ASC (autistic spectrum condition) or social communication difficulties. You can work through social situations with the main character Billy, working out what are the appropriate things to say and do. There are over 100 real life situations to work through: birthday parties, going to the doctors, family dinners and so many more. Using this on our online therapy platform give the therapist and the client the opportunity to discuss the situations and the responses too.
Comprehension Aphasia
We also have apps to use with our adult clients. Comprehension Aphasia is an app designed for use with clients with Aphasia, central auditory processing disorder and Autism. It looks at understanding of yes/no questions and following directions with increasing levels of difficulty. It also has the option to have background noise, helping create an environment that simulates the difficulties our clients face in real life.
Wh- Question Island
This app can be used to work on children’s Blank Level understanding. Blank Levels relate to understanding different types of questions. The app starts with ‘what’ questions and progresses all the way to ‘why’ questions. It can be adjusted to the child’s level of need; with either multiple choice questions or the child giving the answer to the therapist. Using the app online gives the child the opportunity to discuss their answer and improve their understanding of the questions even more.
Magical Concepts
This is a fantastic app which works on understanding of language concepts such as same/different, positional language and size. It also works on understanding of describing words and emotions. This app uses photos to help develop children’s understanding in a real life context.
Syntax Workout
This app works on children’s use of spoken language. It focusses on grammatical elements that children with language disorders or autism may commonly find difficult, such as pronouns (he/she, his/hers) and function words (is/are). This uses a mix of photos and pictures with sentences for the child to complete
If you’d like to know more about online speech therapy and how it could work for you just get in contact and one of our expert speech therapists will give you a call to discuss your needs and what we can do to help you achieve your own personal communication goals.
