“For children with multiple artic errors, phonological processing disorders or apraxia, I’ll often find myself assigning the target phoneme a personality or visual cue. Who hasn’t talked about the “hot breath” of /h/ or the “angry cat” sound of /f/? When I saw Kids Sound Lab Pro at ASHA, I was intrigued.
Not only were the Icelandic developers a lively bunch they had Dr. Barbara Hodson as a consultant. Who wouldn’t take an extra look? I recently started using the app in therapy and it is a fabulous way to introduce the phoneme “characters.” So good, in fact, I’ve begun using it with a number of kids that have no articulation issues but struggle with sound/letter association or other phonemic awareness tasks.
To start, you input a child’s name, gender, birth date and photo (optional). Takes but a second. And, actually, if you were a parent using this with one child, you would need to, but doing so allows you to track performance.”
“The little characterizations and animations of each phoneme as well as descriptions of productions are invaluable. They really seem to stick with kids in a way a static representation/picture doesn’t. And while the app’s focus on developmental order and beginning productions seems simplistic and geared toward the very young child, the pictures aren’t overly “babyish.” I can easily see using this with a school aged child struggling with reading skills or apraxia” See more at:
