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"Early Literacy" provides different levels of activities to help young children learn Chinese effectively by mastering the literacy-related cognitive and perceptual skills. The app is developed by SAHK professional team. The content is evidence-based and context-based. Characters are chosen from the local curriculum. There are videos and interesting games to enhance children’s learning motivation. This upgraded app provides new functions including Augmented Reality (AR) game, dashboard for viewing learning progress, upload & download game data backup. Time limit setting is also available. The app can be used together with “SAHK Early Literacy Learning Package 2” to make learning more comprehensive. Target population: 1. K1-K3 children 2. Older children with K1-K3 learning level Content and characteristics: There are 6 themes in the app, each theme has 4 parts: 1. Tutorial videos - Theme story: Help children learn to use the targeted Chinese characters in daily communication - Videos on story comprehension (basic & advance levels) and nursery rhyme reading: Facilitate listening, speaking & reading skills development 2. Interactive literacy games Children have to open the 8 basic games (K1-K2 level) before they can enter the advance games (K2-K3 level). Training targets and games distribution: i. Oculomotor control & visual perception － Basic games 【Swift Eyes and Hands】 【Running Balloon】 【Look and Find】 【Checkers】 － Advance games 【Locomotive】 【Line Chaser】 【Treasure Hunting】 【Hide and Seek】 ii. Orthography-phonology-semantic mapping (Basic game only) 【Voice Recording Fairy】 iii. Phonological awareness － Basic games 【Shake Shake Word Bowling】 【Miracle Speakers】 － Advance game 【Monster of Word Eating】 iv. Morphological awareness (Advance game only) 【Wonderful Fish】 【Monster of Word Creation】 【Vocabulary Magician】 v. Orthographic awareness (Advance game only) 【Gluttonous Dino】 【Parachute Jump】 vi. Pre-writing & writing skills － Basic game 【Happy Bus】 － Advance games 【Stroke Order Board】 【Character Structure Pairing】 【Family of Logographmes】 3. Mysterious reward The mysterious clearance reward system motivate children play different games repeatedly to enhance learning effectiveness. Facebook sharing and photo taking functions are also provided. 4. AR game By using specific single-word cards to build target vocabulary, related animation and pronunciation will appear after scanning! Through AR game, young children can integrate and apply different early literacy skills.

Speech Therapy Services The Speech therapist Team of Heep Hong Society provides assessment, therapy and training to help children with speech, language and other communication difficulties. To accommodate individual interest and differences, different treatment strategies are employed to enhance children’s social and communication skills. Speech therapists also share their knowledge and experience with parents and professional peers through talks, workshops and publications. LetSTalk is developed by the Speech Therapist Team of Heep Hong Society with an aim to enhance social and communication skills of children with speech and language difficulties, in particular those with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It serves as a handy Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) tool* with voice output function. LetSTalk’s main features include: A collection of 350 pictures of commonly used vocabulary organized under 17 categories (i.e. people, action, food, drinks, toys, body parts, feelings and emotions, animals and plants, clothing, daily supplies, transportation, activities, home, places, stationery, attributes, and social terms) Automatic voice output function or “Speak” button: select a single picture or multiple pictures from different categories to form meaningful sentences Easy customization to suit individual needs: Add new pictures with voice recording function Re-arrange the presentation order of categories and pictures “Custom Category Settings”: place the most frequently used pictures in one page and control the number of pictures “Real Voice Function”: create own picture cards with own voice Language options: Traditional Chinese/Simplified Chinese (text); Cantonese/ Mandarin (voice) *This app is designed to be an augmentative and alternative communication tool. It is not intended to be a game which children could play or learn by themselves. Please consult a speech therapist before using this app with your children.