ProPA vs Conversation Skills

Profile of Phonological Awareness (Pro-PA) by Smarty Ears Unleash effective speech and literacy development with our most advanced, culturally responsive assessment tool yet. Pro-PA is a groundbreaking app created in collaboration with speech-language pathologist Tanya Coyle and the team at Smarty Ears. Designed for educators, clinicians, and parents, it facilitates early identification, assessment, and intervention in phonological awareness skills, setting a new standard in speech, language, and literacy development. Now completely redesigned with a gorgeous modern interface and industry-leading bilingual support, Pro-PA makes evaluating foundational literacy skills more intuitive, accurate, and inclusive than ever. Key Features & 2026 Enhancements NEW: Culturally & Linguistically Responsive: Pro-PA now allows you to comprehensively track a student's language exposure, including their Primary, Home, and Classroom languages. NEW: Dynamic Bilingual Reporting: When generating reports for bilingual students, the app automatically embeds a "Clinical Note on Bilingualism," protecting clinicians and ensuring scores are interpreted holistically with cross-linguistic transfer in mind. Beautifully Redesigned Interface: Enjoy a distraction-free, modern iPadOS experience featuring floating student cards and a clean, perfectly padded testing interface. During active administration, vibrant capsule buttons provide instant visual feedback for "Correct," "Missed," and "Not Administered" items. Smart Tracking & Visual Analysis: View student progress at a glance with stunning new color-coded donut charts and progress bars. Professional, Instant Reporting: Generate highly readable, perfectly formatted PDF reports that feature comprehensive student metadata—including their full Language Profile—right in the header. Easily print or email these reports to support collaboration among IEP team members and parents. Comprehensive Evaluation: An essential resource for evaluating children aged three years and older, with tasks appropriate for learners of all ages to develop early reading, writing, and speech skills. Time-Efficient Administration: Customize test content, skip sections when needed, and reduce testing time without sacrificing accuracy—ideal for busy professionals. Group Assessment: Evaluate and manage multiple students, easily identifying similar skill levels across a classroom for targeted, data-driven intervention. Areas Assessed Rhyming: Identification and production Blending: Syllables and sounds Isolating: First, middle, and last sounds Segmenting: Words, syllables, and sounds Deleting: Syllables and first sound Substituting: First and last sound Consonant clusters with special attention Who is it for? Pro-PA is perfect for educators working with groups, speech-language pathologists who need a robust, culturally responsive assessment tool, and parents who want to support their child’s phonological development. Why choose Pro-PA? Built on extensive research and clinical best practices. Developed by industry experts at Smarty Ears. A pioneer in inclusive, special-education technology. From the makers of Smarty Ears—leaders in speech and communication disorder technology—Pro-PA brings you an inclusive tool perfectly tailored to modern education needs. Download now and take the first step toward more inclusive, individualized, and data-driven education with the power of Pro-PA at your fingertips!

** Happy Frog Apps is a Mom’s Choice Award Winner! Also featured on FunEducationalApps.com, TeachersWithApps.com, and more! ** The “Conversation Skills” app helps children with autism practice key steps in conversation: - Identifying a friend's interests, - Choosing an appropriate topic, - Figuring out what topic is already being talked about, - Joining a conversation, - Continuing a conversation with appropriate follow-up questions and comments. This app provides kids the chance to practice and get supportive feedback in a calm, stress-free environment where they can consider their options. Once kids build the skills of how to choose topics and continue conversations, they'll be able to bring these skills to real-life situations. The “Conversation Skills” app gives your learner the social conversation skills they need to better manage social situations at home, school and in the community. What parents say about our awesome apps: *** 5 stars! Brilliant! An app that understands how kids actually learn. Thank you. *** 5 stars! Your social skill apps are excellent! “Conversation Skills” provides: - More than 140 situations for a wide variety of practice. - Students progress to the next level only when mastery of the current skill is demonstrated. - 'At a glance' reporting shows you instantly how your learner is progressing. - The fun Reward Center motivates even hesitant learners. Most exciting, this app offers independent AND therapist mode. In independent mode, answers are displayed and the learner taps the correct answer. In therapist mode, no answers are displayed. For each question, the student answers orally and the therapist taps whether the learner's oral answer was correct or incorrect. Both modes earn coins for the Reward Center. Our apps are designed for and tested by typical and special needs children. Testers include children with Autism and other special needs. Our apps work for them! Our apps are also suitable for adults dealing with aphasia or learning English as a Second Language. To evaluate the app, download the lite version, which has 1 free level. Additional levels and additional players can be accessed with in-app purchases. If you prefer no in-app purchases, download the paid version of this app, which includes all levels and up to 10 players. We take customer service very seriously! If you ever have a problem or find that we've missed something, contact us at our website and we will do our best to fix the problem.  www.HappyFrogApps.com Our apps are safe for kids. We collect NO private information in our app. None! Our apps do not allow unrestricted web or social media access. We conform to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.