Wee Apps

06/30/2017

We haven't posted in awhile. Working to introduce an exciting app that is in production mode. In the meantime, here is an app that we like:

Mad Libs
By Penguin Group USA

Check out the Mad Libs app. Who doesn't love making silly sentences? The app helps enhance your child's grammar skills by learning about nouns, adjectives, pronouns, and much more! The app can also be used to target speech sounds. Have your child circle words with his or her speech sound. After playing the Mad Libs app, have your child create a Mad Libs story. The app is free.

01/15/2014

Please take a moment and read this article. Special Ed students at CPS will be effected.

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08/30/2013

September 29, 2013

11:00 am – 4:00 pm

St. James Farm, Wheaton, IL

(off Butterfield Road between Winfield and Herrick Roads)


The Heartland Group, which chose N**S as its charity of the year, will be holding a carnival fundraiser for N**S. This fun-filled event for families will feature lots of arts and crafts activities, such as pumpkin painting, scarecrow stuffing, cookie decorating, and sand art, as well as games and competitions, such as an obstacle course and a sand castle contest. Entertainment will be provided by a clown, a magician and several bands. The opening act will be Blue Tooth. The Fource will be the featured band with special guest drummer, Carlos Villalbbos. There will also be face painting, a fire truck and police car, a petting zoo, 2 raffles, and lots of food (gluten-free options will also be available). Tickets are $20/individual, $30/couple, $50/family of 4 or $50 + $10/individual for larger families or groups. Tickets need to be purchased in advance and are available through the N**S website: www.nads.org

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07/13/2013

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06/26/2013

Some of the most common strategies for retaining knowledge are the least effective, according to a new report

06/14/2013

WEE SPEECH PICNIC 2013
THANK YOU FAMILIES AND FRIENDS

Annual Wee Speech Picnic (2013)

07/12/2012

Next App review...Animal Zoo by TabTale

Take a virtual walk through the zoo and visit many animals! This is a new app by Tab Tale, maker of many interactive storybooks (many free as well!). Each page contains one animal with its habitat in the background along with the written animal name. When you touch the animal, it moves and produces its natural sound. In addition to learning the names and sounds of over 20 animals, you can use the app to further increase expressive language skills, such as:
• Increase descriptive vocabulary: talk about how the animals look using descriptive words such as ‘it has a long, bushy tail’ or ‘it has black and white stripes.” Include color and number words. You can even describe the environment around the animal (i.e. has large gray boulders, has trees to shade the animal, blue water to swim in and cool them off)
• Go further in describing what group the animal belongs to (i.e. mammal, amphibian, nocturnal) what the animal likes to do (swim, hunt, sleep!), what it eats, how it moves (i.e. a snail inches along slowly, a snake slithers through the grass on the ground, a lion runs quickly on four legs to catch its prey).
• Increase animal body part vocabulary: beside feathers, fur and tail, how about mane, whiskers and tusks?

Who do YOU use this app with and HOW? Please leave a comment!

07/11/2012

Here is an update to the App Visual Cue Lite, late in coming. I definitely like this app. I used it yesterday in a session for a child to "count up" to 5. When he completes 5 stimulus items, he gets a reward. Typically I use "chips" to give him something to manipulate, but this worked just as well because he likes the iPad.
I use this app mostly to have children make a choice between 2 pictures to choose an activity. I had one client who pushed the advertisement button on every screen. If I were going to use it consistently with this client, I would eliminate ads by buying the full version.

04/10/2012

The first App I want to put out there is one I discovered today...Visual Cue Lite by Sanghoon Lee (free). There is a version for $9.99 without ads. The ads are a strip along the bottom which may be distracting for some children and they do change during the activity.

This app is advertised for "visual thinkers." I plan on using it for any child needing visual cues. I was able to set it up without reading the directions (although it would have been quicker with them). I started by taking photos of the majority of activities/toys I use with my younger children. I recorded the name of the activity/toy with each image. This creates a library of images to then use to in each of the following activities. Quick and easy.

In 'Which One,' you can create a strip of 2-4 pictures for the child to choose what he wants. You can write a question as a header but can't record the question. In 'Visual Scheduler,' you can set up 3-5 pictures for the child to follow in turn. For 2 images, you can use the 'First-Then' option. The last three are 'Count Up' or 'Count Down' where a child must perform a task a set amount of times and 'Visual Timer' where a child must perform a task for a set amount of time. You can change the amount of times or time under Settings. This will be great for children who need a visuals to get through and activity or session.

I will post an update once I use it in a session!

04/10/2012

Welcome to our newest forum for sharing Apps for Speech-Language Pathologists. We're calling it Wee Apps after the company we work for, Wee Speech, P.C. in Skokie, IL. Our objective is to have one central, uncluttered place for SLP's to post reviews of Apps they have purchased, positive or negative (with respectful language, of course!)

Please share which Apps you love and why you love them so! We want to read about with which population(s) you use them, the app's best features, and value received for our dollars! Hopefully after posting you can search and find your new favorite app!