Go vs Turtle Pacing Board

Go-Togethers: Building Semantic Connections for All Ages Improve Language Skills with Research-Backed Techniques: Go-Togethers is a state-of-the-art application designed to enhance language comprehension and expression across all age groups. It targets critical skills such as categorization, association, and naming through interaction with pictures and audio. Innovative Features for Engaging Learning: Touchscreen Interactions: Utilize the iPad, iPod Touch, and iPhone's touchscreen to create linguistic connections with touch “sweep” and “tap-to-tally” features. Research-Based Design: Aligns with studies that underscore the importance of semantic knowledge, naming performance, and categorization in language development (McGregor et al., 2002; Bromley, 2007; Miller & Eilam, 2008). Special Focus on Language Disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Incorporates visual “word maps” and rapid retrieval activities supported by research for effective interventions (Westby, 2005; Wolf & Seagal, 1999). Customized Activities and Tracking: Versatile Targeting: Choose specific categories to focus on, such as rooms in a house, weather, and seasons. Measure and Monitor: Elicit, score, and report students' progress over time, with detailed data available through the Therapy Report Center. Expressive and Receptive Activities: Engage students with diverse and adjustable activities, including Quick Play and Receptive-Expressive combination exercises. Who Can Benefit from Go-Togethers? SLPs: Provide targeted interventions, customized to individual needs, and easily track progress. Parents: Support children's language development at home with intuitive and engaging tools. Special Education Teachers: Elevate classroom learning with interactive and visual aids tailored for students' diverse learning needs. Join the Semantic Revolution with Go-Togethers! Go-Togethers is now compatible with Smarty Ears Online, enabling seamless integration into professional practice. Whether you're an SLP, a parent, or a special education teacher, Go-Togethers offers an enriching, research-based experience to foster language mastery. Download Go-Togethers today and let the semantic connections begin!

Turtle Pacing Board is a professional speech therapy app designed for children who have unclear articulation due to a fast rate of speech. It is also suitable in the treatment of stuttering and cluttering. How is Turtle Pacing Board different to a traditional paper-based pacing board? Pacing boards are often used in speech therapy to help children to slow their rate of speech. The child taps on a circle or turtle and says one word or syllable per tap. However, when using a paper-based pacing board many children will often begin to tap on each circle or turtle too quickly and then their speech gets faster too. Unlike traditional pacing boards, Turtle Pacing Board offers fun visual cues to help children to slow their rate of speech correctly and improve their articulation and speech intelligibility. How does Turtle Pacing Board work? The child chooses a conversation topic and answers conversation questions using the Turtle Pacing Board. They have to press and hold down on a turtle and say one syllable or word per turtle.   When the turtle has completely filled with colour and increased in size, they can then move on to the next turtle in the pacing board and say the next syllable or word.  If they move on before the turtle has filled with colour and increased in size, "Too Quick" flashes on the screen.  The speed at which the turtles fill with colour and get bigger can be adjusted in Settings using the slider bar. Children with a faster speaking rate and less intelligible speech benefit from having each turtle in the pacing board filling with colour more slowly. The conversation questions are optional. Turtle Pacing Board can also be used as a pacing board without conversation questions or as a speech therapy tool when practising saying longer, multisyllabic words and breaking them up into syllables. Who is Turtle Pacing Board for? - Parents - Teachers - Speech language pathologists / speech and language therapists - Children with unclear articulation due to a fast speaking rate - Children who need support to say longer, multisyllabic words clearly - Children who have a stutter - Children who clutter their speech Turtle Pacing Board Therapy Tips Try to be a good model for the child by using Turtle Pacing Board when you speak. This will show the child what to do and it will also encourage them to speak more slowly. Try to keep conversations natural by making comments and keeping the conversation going rather than quickly skipping ahead to the next conversation question. Features - A bright, colourful and engaging turtle pacing board - An animated sea background - Six categories of conversation questions for lots of speech pacing practice - The option to have conversation questions spoken aloud, text only or both - Optional audio feedback to indicate when a turtle has fully filled with colour in addition to the visual cue - iOS voices (an enhanced voice if one has been downloaded on your device) - Adjustable settings: voice speed and the speed at which each turtle fills with colour All Aptus Speech Therapy apps participate in the 50% off Volume Purchase Program, so Turtle Pacing Board can be bought in bulk at a discounted price.  If you would like to learn more about our other speech therapy apps for children, please visit our website: www.aptus-slt.com