Language Adventures Pro vs ToyBrush 3

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!

Have infinite fun coloring and decorating a splendid collection of 21 wooden, plastic or fabric 3D toys with smart creative tools! We have carefully arranged a room full of toys – princesses, unicorns, butterflies, ballerinas, teddy bears and many more - eagerly waiting for some little hands to take the brush and paint them from scratch. Brush and roll paint, apply textures, place funny and colorful stickers on realistic looking surfaces, let your kids' imagination transform the toys to their liking! It’s not only fun but also a great way of learning about colors and shapes, not to mention the full 3D orientation environment that helps the development of spatial perception. Kids can rotate manually or automatically the toys to either color or display them in their full splendor! There are no rules when it comes to the painting part, the possibilities are endless. We just made sure to provide a range of smart coloring tools for applying brush strokes, stickers and textures with spillover restraints for easy control. ToyBrush is suitable for kids as young as 2 and features: • Realistic 3D toys including a prince, princess, fairy godmother, ballerina, mermaid, carriage, teapot, coffee cup, ice cream, cake, flower, butterfly, turtle push toy, mushroom house, alarm clock, owl, baby, teddy bear, cat, unicorn, bird • Rainbow-hued palette of paint colors • Resizable stickers, decals and facial features to embellish creations • Undo button for fixing mistakes • Music and sound effects with independent on/off switches • Simple child-friendly camera save function • Dedicated toddler setting which uses auto-rotation • Rollers which apply color in controlled horizontal or vertical swaths • Unlimited supplies and items to paint for never-ending fun Please contact us with feedback at WeListen@crocostudio.com. We’d love to hear from you.