TalkiPlay vs LEST

Award winning language learning program for children (ages 2-6). TalkiPlay brings your home to life - attach the downloadable codes to real objects in your home – to explore talking planets, furniture, rainbows and more. Engaging your child in essential early sounds, songs and words - the building blocks for speech development. Discover how your child can be supported in their language with our comprehensive early language guided program based on children’s interests and school ready skills. Learning to talk is fun and active with TalkiPlay. Perfect for pre-K, kindergarten, and 1st grade. TalkiPlay offers premium subscriptions to unlock all games and content in the app. You can choose between a subscription of $5.99 per month or $49.99 per year. Prices may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your iTunes Account and will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage your subscriptions in your Account Settings after purchase. Privacy Policy: https://www.talkiplay.com/policies Terms of Use: https://www.talkiplay.com/terms

The Letter Sound Test (LeST) tests a person’s ability to sound out single letters and letter combinations.  - Run a LeST test session in under 10 minutes. - Automated percentile and z-score calculations for graphemes. - Practice marking before you buy. - Hear correct pronunciations of all the letter-sound combinations before you buy. More about the LeST: In order to be able to sound out words, we need to know which sound a letter or letter combination corresponds to. The LeST evaluates which letter(s) a person can sound out in isolation (i.e., not in the context of a word or nonword).  The LeST is a simple reading aloud task and contains 51 graphemes (single letters and letter combinations). This test can be administered to individual students. At the end of the test, the tester gets an overview of the grapheme a reader can sound out in isolation. The tester may then decide to train the letter-sound-correspondences for the letters that the reader could not sound out correctly. This app has been developed from the LeST literacy assessment tool created by Macquarie University Centre for Reading.