2017 Autism Awareness Month Apps Sale Part 2

• By Beata Klarowska, M.S. CCC-SLP
• Tuesday, April 11, 2017

2017 Autism Awareness Month Apps Sale Part 2

April is the Autism awareness month and to celebrate it, Virtual Speech Center offers one week APPS SALE on selected apps. Sale ends 04/16/17 at 9PM EST. Enjoy our apps !!!

Articulation Vacation $20.99 (original price $29.99)

The Articulation Vacation app is built around a vacation theme and activities. Children will have fun practicing the articulation of various phonemes while “on vacation” and playing different built-in summer games: - Fishing game: Children will fish and catch not only fish but also different fun objects containing targeted sounds. - Beach treasure hunt: Children will look for hidden objects in the sand and uncover them by swiping the sand. - Picture-taking: Children will take pictures of different objects containing targeted sounds. - Parachute game: Children will land flying parachutes carrying different objects containing targeted sounds. - Postcards: Children will read or listen to fun, short paragraphs in the form of postcards. More...

Fun with R $9.99 (original price $14.99)

The Fun with R app offers an intensive program for children to practice articulation of the most difficult to produce sound – R. The R stimuli in this app are organized in a way that allows speech and language pathologists to choose either traditional or phonetically consistent approaches to R remediation. More...

Main Street Memory $9.99 (original price $14.99)

Main Street Memory app is meant to assist both children and adults who need practice processing and recalling brief, complex auditory instructions. Unlike other recall apps, this one takes place in a real life context-shopping and working downtown. This helps clients to readily understand how limitations and gains in skills directly affect their life. It also allows the therapist to directly relate therapeutic tasks to functional outcomes for community living tasks and vocational readiness. The activities are game like so that clients have fun while learning. The therapist has the ability to control length and complexity of directions by selecting the appropriate level and the amount and type of background noise by adjusting the settings on the app. In addition to background noise the therapist can delay the presentation of stimuli. More...

Talking Together $6.99 (original price $9.99)

Talking Together encourages students to hold and maintain conversations with their peers in a natural setting, and makes it easier for speech and language pathologists to monitor pragmatic language goals. A group of 2-4 students can participate in the conversation. Students sit around a table, placing the iPad in the center of the table and compete to participate in conversation by tapping on the GO icon when the topic is displayed on the topic icon. More...

Sentence Workout $6.99 (original price $12.99)

The Sentence Workout was created by a certified speech and language pathologist for students ages 6 and up to practice sentence structures in both oral and written forms. This is another app from the family of workouts developed by Virtual Speech Center Inc.—this time with a soccer theme. Children are welcomed by the soccer coach who encourages them to work hard. Children earn a soccer ball for each correct response, and when they accumulate enough balls, they can play a soccer game. More...

Prepositions Journey $5.99 (original price $9.99)

The Prepositions Journey app was developed by a certified speech and language pathologist to aid practice with early/common prepositions. Children will have fun practicing prepositions with three animals who appear in three different colorful, animated scenes: camping, island, and city. More...