Zoo Caper Skyscraper vs Speakaboo

This game is designed to treat a specific auditory ability related to learning or reading problems. Your local audiologist or speech-language specialist can assess whether this game is right for your child or for an adult with a brain injury. If you think that your child has listening, language or learning problems that might be related to auditory processing, visit your local audiologist or speech-language pathologist and recommend acoustic pioneer to get your child's auditory processing abilities tested. If your specialist has already supplied you with a code to use this game, install this game and enter the code once you run the game. For the professional: This game is an auditory training exercise that is designed to incrementally improve the player's ability to hear and distinguish a different sound in each ear occurring at once. This skill requires a developed auditory pathway to each cortical hemisphere (side of the brain) as well as a developed auditory pathway in the corpus collosum (between each hemisphere). This ability of a player to perform this skill indicates the status of their auditory system development. Lesions or under-development of these auditory pathways have been shown in many studies to limit abilities in; a) focusing attention in difficult listening environments, b) difficulty learning to read, c) difficulty following spoken instruction, d) difficulty putting visual information together with auditory information. Improving these auditory pathways is crucial to address prior to focus therapy or training on higher levels skills.

Speakaboo is an articulation screener designed to help SLP's assess speech development of a multilingual child in its native language. Using small interactive games, Speakaboo helps therapists elicit target words which are automatically recorded. The therapist can access these recordings after the test to review them, score the results, and compare them to the pronunciation of a native speaker. In the face of a language barrier, showing the child's parents a comparison of the two recordings makes it easier to explain a diagnosis. The SLT can also use the app to play the recorded audio of their child back. This often results in a better understanding of the diagnosis by parents.  The test takes only 10 minutes. The short duration makes Speakaboo ideal for working with young children who become restless during long evaluations. Speakaboo's entertaining pop-ups additionally help children open up. “Children love to open the doors in Speakaboo. It’s great to see how even the shyest quickly start to name the pictures.” - Eefje van der Linden-Graafland, Speech-/language therapist at ADC The Hague "Finally an attractive tool to assess my young multilingual clients’ speech development." - Nienke Lam, Clinical Linguist, Audiological Centrum Amsterdam “Speakaboo really helps parents understand their child's speech problem.” - Marga van Mil,  OnderwijsAdvies, Leiden Currently, Speakaboo supports the following languages: - Dutch - Egyptian Arabic - Moroccan Arabic - Polish - Tarifit-Berber - Turkish - Somali - Papiamento - English (US) - German - Italian - Bosnian - Tigrinya - Hindi - Russian - French - Syrian - West Armenian - East Armenian - Spanish