First Phrases Lite User Reviews

First Phrases Lite
First Phrases Lite
Hamaguchi Learning & Development, LLC

Top reviews

Great features for a lite app!

Love the customizable features and the ability to create 3 users with their own settings. The kids love being able to tell the cat what to do - engaging and educational!

Great!

Love the animation! Very engaging for young learners. I like the recording feature.

First phrases lite (IPhone)

By: Papadiz

Really good app for early learners. Functioned well on my IPhone. May have been a little smoother than on the IPad.

Fun Way To Learn!

This is a fun way to learn to put words together to learn speaking phrases. The visual cues are helpful and not to "busy." I like being able to repeat the initial phrase more than once. Also good for cognitive work. Recording to hear one's own voice is always an added fun step for kids.

Great Lite version

This is a great lite version, if you try it ... you will see it is worth the upgrade to the full version!! I have a more detailed review in the full version but it is a very helpful app for parents and caregivers alike. Children both with speech struggles and those on ASD will find this helpful as well as typical developing toddlers.
Show more

Great speech app!

This a a useful app for users who need to work on putting simple sentences together. One can choose to work on 2 or 3 sentence segments. The animation reinforces the sentences. I like that up to 3 users can be chosen and specific custom settings for each of them. The narrator in the lite version is a little boy. This app also has a nice feature that the user can repeat the phrase and record it. I like this app in the iPhone/iPod touch format so that a therapist could have multiple students working independently reinforcing skills just learned. Great app! Can't wait to try the full version!
Show more

Interesting App

I felt this was a bit limited. It would be useful as a therapy tool but beyond that I think the user might get bored with it easily. Graphics are great and voice is clear.

Useful App

Great app for teaching sentence structure. I love the animations, and the white background helps avoid distraction. Children will love selecting words to tell the cat what to do, recording the directions, and watching as cat performs the action.

Great app

Love how it starts with words and then shows how each picture goes together to form a sentence. Pictures are bright and pleasing to look at. You can also record your own voice for sentence playback.

Progressive learning

What a great way to scaffold learning sentence structure. First in imitation then putting the words in order. I like the animation for motivation and reinforcement.

Great App

This app is great for those just learning how a sentence is formed. I like how each part of the sentence had a picture or shape to go with it. It is great how it shows each part and then shows how it all goes together. Also helps enhance reading.

Good solid app

App does what it says. I like the fact that it lets you record your own audio to match the phrase. Would work well at school or for practice at home.

@jedipadmaster on twitter

Excellent App

This is an amazing app for those who struggle with speech and communication! The act of repeating the phrase, and then seeing the phrase in action is essential for the user who is struggling and needing help with speech and cognition! I love how the user can tap the words and they are read out loud to them, to accommodate those who can not read yet. Truly a fantastic app!
Show more

My son did very well working with the app.

My son did very well working with the app. It was very engaging and he liked the reward of finding the animal behind the door! Thanks for the app!

Needs improvement

This app would be great if the developer would remove the ability to pause the character completing the activity by touching either pause or anywhere on the screen. My clients with autism tend to focus on pushing the pause button repeatedly and younger clients tend to want to touch the screen which pauses activity. There should be a way to disable this feature. Also there is a problem with the record button each time the app is launched-it freezes up on me.
Show more