Language Adventures Pro vs Verbal Reasoning

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!

Verbal Reasoning is an iPad app created by a certified speech and language pathologist for adults and children ages 12 and up. Verbal Reasoning targets reasoning and critical thinking skills, challenging users with over 1000 stimuli. This colorful and engaging app allows speech and language pathologists and educators to set a reward system when working with children to make therapy more fun and motivating. The children are rewarded with puzzle pieces, and when they accumulate enough pieces they can do various puzzles. This feature can be turned off when working with adults. Verbal Reasoning includes the following activities: - Identifying problems, possible causes, and solutions - Stating problems, possible causes, and solutions - Identifying what will happen next - Predicting what will happen next - What would you do if…? - What would happen if…? - Stating pros and cons - Stating similarities and differences between items - Answering why-questions - Answering negative wh-questions The Verbal Reasoning app can be used with the following audiences and disorders: - Adults with cognitive deficits caused by TBI, stroke, or other brain injuries - Aphasia - Children with language disorders - Autism