Adjectives Fun Deck vs Inference Pics

This colorful educational App for the iPhone®, iPad®, and iPod touch® has all 52 illustrated picture flash cards (plus audio of each card’s text) from the Adjectives Fun Deck® by Super Duper® Publications. Select the cards you want students to see, and have your students fill in the blank to improve their grammar, syntax, and vocabulary skills. The prompts include statements like, “Brett bought a (new) pair of pants” and “The (strong) woman lifts weights.” The Automatic Scoring option allows the students to choose from one of two answers to complete the sentence correctly. Adjectives Fun Deck® App lets you: • Use the app in portrait or landscape orientation. • Select all 52 cards or just the ones you want students to see. • Track correct and incorrect responses for an unlimited number of players. • Advance players and cards manually or automatically. • Receive feedback for incorrect and/or correct responses • Discontinue game play and continue at any time. • View results in a graph and see which questions a player missed during a session. • Print, e-mail, and share your results. This App is simple to use — each student looks at an illustration and either reads the prompt or touches the screen to listen to the prompt and answer choices. The student then responds by touching his/her answer. Move to the next card by sliding the card currently on the display screen to the side. To move to the next player, tap the bar at the top of the screen and select a name. You can also advance cards and players automatically by selecting the Auto-Advance option in the Game Options menu. You can leave a game temporarily and return to it later by selecting Pause Game from the menu. To return to the game, select Continue Game from the main menu. When you finish, view the results in a graph, and print or email your data.

Work more effectively on social inferencing goals in speech and language therapy. Help children and adults with social communication difficulties improve their ability to make social inferences. Social inferencing skills are best developed using real-life photos and scenarios. - Get a speech therapy tool that helps older children, teens and adults recognise facial expressions, interpret body language, and use contextual clues to make social inferences. - Improve expressive language, social skills, thinking and reasoning by using this speech therapy app. - Create the right experience for each client by choosing a social inferencing activity that matches their level. *** “When working with older students or adults, Inference Pics is a fantastic solution that offers flexibility and ease of use... this stands out to help clients with important inferencing skills.” — Dan Fitch, CCC-SLP “My clients love this app, and I love using it with them. It's my go-to when working on social inferencing, understanding emotions and working on expressive language.” — Hannah O'Driscoll, CCC-SLP *** TRY INFERENCE PICS FOR FREE Download the Lite version to try a free sample of the full version. Finding interesting and engaging social inferencing photos and scenarios is surprisingly hard even for speech-language pathologists and speech and language therapists. Think of this app as your helper, taking the pressure out of finding suitable social inferencing photos and scenarios for use in speech therapy sessions. 7 READY-TO-USE SOCIAL INFERENCING ACTIVITIES Inference Pics includes 7 activities: - What Has Happened? - Jobs - Places - Seasons - Feelings - Conversations - Thoughts HOW IT WORKS STEP 1: CHOOSE A SOCIAL INFERENCING ACTIVITY Tailor your client’s experience by choosing an activity that matches their level. Jobs, Places and Seasons are easier activities, while What Has Happened?, Thoughts and Conversations are more complex. STEP 2: MAKE AN INFERENCE Users are presented with a real-life photo and asked a question such as: - What has happened? - How is the person feeling? - What are they saying? - What are they thinking? The first question varies depending on the chosen social inferencing activity. STEP 3: EXPLAIN THE REASONING Users then answer: "How can you tell?" This encourages them to identify facial expressions, body language, and contextual clues that support their answer. An annotation tool allows users to draw directly on the image to highlight facial expressions, body language, and contextual clues, and explain their reasoning. WHO IS INFERENCE PICS FOR? - Parents - Teachers - Speech-language pathologists (SLPs) / speech and language therapists (SLTs) - Children and teenagers with language delay, social communication difficulties, or autism - Adults with cognitive-communication difficulties due to stroke or traumatic brain injury - Adults with social communication difficulties and/or autism The app is intended to be used interactively with a parent, teacher, therapist, child, or adult user. SKILLS TARGETED - Expressive language - Social skills, thinking and reasoning - Social inferencing - Recognising facial expressions and body language - Understanding emotions - Reading comprehension FEATURES - Over 350 high-quality real-life social inferencing photos - Two questions per photo - An annotation tool for highlighting clues - User profiles - Questions that prompt inferential reasoning - Option to show or hide possible answers - Results summary that can be emailed - Results tracking and built-in storage - No subscriptions - No monthly bills - No Wi-Fi required Inference Pics is designed to help speech-language pathologists, teachers, parents and caregivers work on higher-level expressive language, cognitive-communication, pragmatic language, and social communication skills.