Speakaboo vs Instant Reading

Speakaboo is an articulation screener designed to help SLP's assess speech development of a multilingual child in its native language. Using small interactive games, Speakaboo helps therapists elicit target words which are automatically recorded. The therapist can access these recordings after the test to review them, score the results, and compare them to the pronunciation of a native speaker. In the face of a language barrier, showing the child's parents a comparison of the two recordings makes it easier to explain a diagnosis. The SLT can also use the app to play the recorded audio of their child back. This often results in a better understanding of the diagnosis by parents.  The test takes only 10 minutes. The short duration makes Speakaboo ideal for working with young children who become restless during long evaluations. Speakaboo's entertaining pop-ups additionally help children open up. “Children love to open the doors in Speakaboo. It’s great to see how even the shyest quickly start to name the pictures.” - Eefje van der Linden-Graafland, Speech-/language therapist at ADC The Hague "Finally an attractive tool to assess my young multilingual clients’ speech development." - Nienke Lam, Clinical Linguist, Audiological Centrum Amsterdam “Speakaboo really helps parents understand their child's speech problem.” - Marga van Mil,  OnderwijsAdvies, Leiden Currently, Speakaboo supports the following languages: - Dutch - Egyptian Arabic - Moroccan Arabic - Polish - Tarifit-Berber - Turkish - Somali - Papiamento - English (US) - German - Italian - Bosnian - Tigrinya - Hindi - Russian - French - Syrian - West Armenian - East Armenian - Spanish

Instant Reading is a tachistoscope, a tool capable of showing a list of text items for a pre-set time, which can be very short. Currently, the tachistoscope is used mainly for rehabilitation in SpLD (Specific Learning Difficulties). Among the main purposes, there are training and development of direct access to reading (also called lexical access), that is, the ability to globally recognize a written word by recalling it from one's lexical repertoire. The exercises are made up of lists of words, syllables and non-words, of which the app presents one element at a time, leaving it visible for a time set by the Operator, adjustable between fractions of a second and a few seconds. Instant Reading offers over 90 built-in lists, each averaging about twenty items. Lists can be used for exercises with various adjustment options, according to the characteristics of the Reader and depending on the expected result. For each list the app indicates the level of difficulty and the main purposes for which it can be used. The app also includes commands to quickly create and add custom Lists. Added lists can be edited (and deleted) and are shown in color in the list of available exercises.