Language Adventures Pro vs Phonology

Language Adventures: A Contextual Speech & Language Journey Transform your speech therapy sessions with Language Adventures! This innovative app takes the classic board game experience and elevates it into a powerful, research-based digital tool designed specifically for the iPad. Language Adventures provides a first-of-its-kind contextual language intervention. Using vibrant, school-themed graphics and an engaging interface, students build essential language skills in areas critical for academic success, including categories, inferences, and wh-questions. A Comprehensive Language Tool Contextual Learning: Question targets are directly related to school-based themes—the Playground, Cafeteria, and Classroom—grounding therapy in real-world environments to enhance semantic connections and comprehension. Three Levels of Difficulty: Targeted content curated for a wide range of students, from elementary through high school-aged learners. Seamless Digital Gameplay: All the board game staples—player selection, dice rolling, and token moving—are reimagined and optimized for the iPad platform. Advanced Goal Targeting: Work in adult-student pairs or groups to master flexible word use, synonyms, antonyms, multiple meanings, and descriptive naming. Progress Tracking: Efficiently manage your caseload by saving specific student targets and monitoring progress over repeated play sessions. Research-Based Intervention Language Adventures is built upon proven educational research regarding vocabulary development and the use of context clues to increase overall language proficiency: Targeted Vocabulary: Research indicates that targeting vocabulary facilitates reading comprehension and oral language skills (Dole, Sloan, and Trathen, 1995). Thematic Strength: By providing context-based questions, Language Adventures assists children in strengthening word connections and developing meaningful concepts (Hickman, et al. 2004). Meaningful Activities: Students are provided with activities related to their own experiences and encouraged to use student-friendly definitions, which are proven to enhance language production (Beck, et al., 2002). Authored by: Nichole Hanneken Ontis, M.S., CCC-SLP Danielle Sears, M.S., CCC-SLP App Designers: Sean J. Sweeney Barbara Fernandes Take your students on a Language Adventure today!

Phonology lets you give more Speech Therapy for children with unintelligible speech! This app is an auditory discrimination activity that helps children hear the difference between words like “stop” and “top” and say words like “cap” and “spoon”. Colorful drawings to hold children’s interest as they practice their good speech. The app is based on the Hodson model of Phonological Processing. It is appropriate for children ages 3-5 with impaired speech intelligibility. A clear speech model is presented for the child to imitate and they can record and play back their own speech. The clinician can choose from three scoring methods. 1. Score each response as correct, distorted or incorrect. 2. Score responses as correct, distorted, substituted, or omitted. 3. Score productions based on whether they are spontaneously correct/incorrect or imitatively correct/incorrect. This app is based on the Word Practice game from LocuTour’s Phonology I CD.