Launch speech vs Hugystories

Before a child begins to speak, he/she must learn to understand the addressed speech, and if he/she has a phonemic hearing malfunction, then he/she hears sounds, but can't understand and distinguish sounds from each other. As a result, the child can't distinguish words and understand their meaning, and speak. The basis for the development of phonemic hearing is the child's difference in non-speech sounds, which is what the lessons are aimed at in this application. But a developed phonemic, or the so-called speech ear, is also the basis for correct speech. This is the ability to recognize and distinguish sounds (phonemes) of speech among themselves in the speech stream. In simple words, it is not only a person's ability to hear sounds, but also to recognize them. Phonemic hearing impairments lead to misunderstandings of speech. In the future, difficulties arise with the expression of thoughts, impaired written speech, and so on. That is why experts advise developing it in a child from the first days of life, and also pay attention to the sounds surrounding him. The application, first of all, is recommended to parents, speech therapists, speech pathologists and pedagogues-audiologists for joint classes with a child on the development of phonemic perception and speech. The key feature of the application is the absence of visualization of animals and various objects. It contains courses with non-speech sounds, divided into groups of difficulty, which have step-by-step recommendations for parents and an automatic timer so that they can properly organize the process of class with non-speaking children. For professional use of the program by specialists, the program provides statistics on the success of mastering the material studied by each child for each sound separately, including the time spent by the child for its study. There is also a mode of use, at your discretion, based on the specialist's own methodology, bypassing the recommendations for parents. The timer allows you to control the duration of the lesson and the process of learning the sound. For ease of use by a specialist, there is the possibility of mixing, in order to prevent the child from remembering the location of the buttons that reproduce certain sounds. In the free version: Farm course for learning basic animal sounds. It is used as a baseline at any stage of the study. By practicing every day, following the recommendations of the course, you will be able to assess the effectiveness of the classes, you will see how with each stage the child will begin to master new sounds faster, it is better to distinguish new ones. Start the initial stage of the development of phonemic perception. Additional paid courses: Have you successfully mastered the "Farm" course? Continue to develop child speech with additional advanced courses with the inhabitants of Africa, the Forest and the North Pole. Course "Birds" for those who mastered sound perception, and course "Musical Instruments" will help to raise it to a special level, adding more "uniqueness" to classes. Professional paid mode: - Possibility of taking turns with several children; - Statistics for each child with information about the success of the lessons for each sound; - Sandbox mode, for organizing classes according to your own method, with an automatic timer; - Sound mixing function.

Hugystories is made for parents of children aged 3-7 whose evenings turn into negotiations: won't put the tablet down, afraid of the dark, whining at bedtime, jealous of the new baby. Explaining doesn't work at this age — a child either doesn't follow the reasoning or pushes back. Inside a story there is nothing to push against: the child lives through it and draws the conclusion himself. So we build a story where the hero is your child, which makes recognition instant and saying the moral out loud unnecessary. SAY IT WITH A STORY, NOT A LECTURE Pick the topic — afraid of the dark, won't give up the tablet, too shy, starting nursery — and get a story written around your child: his name, his age, his situation. WAYS TO CREATE A STORY • Describe the idea in words or dictate it out loud • Photograph your child's drawing and watch the character come to life • Choose from the catalogue: 28 childhood difficulties and 43 skills • Liked where it went? Tap "Continue" and the story becomes a series READ AND LISTEN Every story is narrated, with text and illustrations following the voice, so the child sees what is being read and gradually starts reading along. There are background sounds, a sleep timer and offline saving for reading without internet. NOT ONE STORY, BUT A PROGRAMME For harder topics a single story isn't enough. The app builds a course of several steps: each story turns the topic a new way, a short quiz sits between them, and a diploma waits at the end. FOR PARENTS • Child profile: stories adapt to age and interests • Progress and skills — you can see what stuck • Achievements and puzzles built from story illustrations • Settings behind a parental gate • No third-party advertising inside stories Hugystories is not a substitute for a specialist and does not diagnose anything — it is a way to talk to your child in his own language. Support: hugystories.com