Found this gem of an app. Just wish I found it sooner!
Can’t believe there is no recent review of this great app. I hope even more that the creators continue to develop it. With the last two years especially, reading and speech have been impacted. This is such a wonderful tool that empowers them to figure it out or click the “teach me”. We used the option type your own word option when coming across a word they didn’t understand. So the act of typing helps link the letter to sound recognition as well as the wonderfully sounded out words. Please please please keep adding to the library. Going to pass this app along to others.
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The app is bad
The Cramer dos not work do not wast your money
Can be helpful
This app is fun and colorful. However, we found it difficult as you have to take a picture of the page you want to use. Then, you have to type the word you need help with. It does sound out the words great and my daughter was able to follow along. So, as long as you know you have to type in the words, it works great.
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Helpful for struggling readers
I tried out this app and can see its use to help readers when they come to a word they don't know. I like how it can color chunk out parts of words for older readers. I found typing in the word was the best way to use this. When I took a picture and put a box around it, I still had to type the word in, so that was disappointing. I can also see using this as part of a phonics lesson in small groups of beginning readers.
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Great for helping special needs kids!
My son has autism and is just getting his words... this is that extra bit of help he needs sounding out new words! Great idea! Love that after working with him a little, he will be able to work on photos of his reading pages independently. He loves not having to ask me all the time!
A great device to help children read difficult words!
I'm really impressed with this app. I never knew this existed and I definitely plan to use this with my own son who struggles to read. I'll then take it to school for my first graders!
For Any Age With Special Needs
This will be great for someone special to me. Recovering from a stroke - she is having difficulty sounding out words. I am excited to try The Sounding Out Machine with her. Thank you.
Pretty cool!
I think this will be very helpful with my students that struggle with words when they are reading. This will encourage some independence on figuring out how to pronounce the word.
The sounding out machine
I love this idea! The whole idea of a machine can appeal to lots of little ones! With my son with autism, I feel like the story length would have to be minimal to maintain his attention span after taking the picture, searching and spelling the word. I do love the capability to send to list of struggling words to the parent or teacher!
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Needs more work
We downloaded the app and the colors are very vibrant and welcoming. When we tried using the "teach me" button initially it was not clear that we had to use our word card, once we figured we need to use a word card to get a word to type in we were not able to see the word card because it was off to the left side of the screen and we were on able to move it to the center to read the words.
It was great to type in the one word we could see (all) and hear the iPad voice sound out the letters and then teach us how to say that word
It was great to type in the one word we could see (all) and hear the iPad voice sound out the letters and then teach us how to say that word
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Great!
This is great for the next step in independent reading! What a wonderful way to boost confidence.
Great idea if it worked right
Unfortunately it doesn't have knowledge of a lot of kids names when you type them. It also kept saying error when we tried to read the word we took a picture of. I think this will be a great app once they work out the bugs.
Pretty cool
It is not quite what I was hoping for. I was hoping that the kids could just click on a word and it would sound it out, but they have to type the word into another portion of the app. This would not work for my eight year who is impatient and tends to guess. I do like the reading assists that they can use to avoid distractions.
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Helpful
My daughter likes to guess. When she reads, so this will help with her learning to sound words out correctly.
App
Excellent app!
Creates ability for your child to read whatever they wish!
Creates ability for your child to read whatever they wish!
Reading made easy!
This app seems like it is very helpful for young kids just getting the hang of sounds and for older kids needing help with complex words. It is easy to maneuver around this app
Very helpful aid to reading
This appears to be a very helpful aid to allow children to read more independently. It will also help a child to learn to sound out words. I plan to not only use this app for my children, but in my classrooms. Thank You to (A4CWSN) Apps 4 Children With Special Needs for the heads up that this app was going for no charge.
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A useful tool for a child with extra challenges
Having just downloaded this app and tried it out, I think that it will be a useful tool for improving my son's reading skills. He loves to learn, but having Down syndrome increases the degree of challenge he faces. I look forward to trying this app with him. My wife or I will have to work with him at first, but I think that he will enjoy using this app to learn new words and to practice words he knows already.
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Great educational app!
This app worked very well for difficult words for kids. It showed them how to send it out and also showed them how to pronounce it once they did send it out. What a great way to learn! I highly recommend this app.
Fantastic
I just downloaded this app for my nonspeaking child with apraxia and autism spectrum disorder. I cannot wait to try it with her today! I have not found another app like this. Consider downloading it!