Brainy Skills Synonym Antonym vs Keywords Understanding Lite

Brainy Skills Synonyms and Antonyms is a reading comprehension game made to help ESL students and young adults learn the differences in words that have similar or opposite meaning. The game is a great interactive tool for students to use with a teacher, therapist, parent, or caregiver. It can also be used independently, however, the concepts are initially best learned in conjunction with some form of support and assistance from teaching. Its format is an exciting new way to help readers of all ages develop and improve their reading comprehension abilities. This app was created, developed and written by a certified speech language pathologist with many years of hands on experience with a variety of clients with different needs. Young and older school age students as well as adults both typically developing and special needs can benefit greatly from this app. Brainy Skills Synonyms and Antonyms is a simple game to practice words that are either synonyms or antonyms. First, read a simple sentence and have the student choose the correct word by tapping on the correct answer from the two choices. Next, work your way up the scoreboard. Last, master all of the synonyms or antonyms throughout 20 levels of gameplay. Each level enhances a student's skills important for decoding language with words that have the same or opposite meaning. Motivate the player to beat their score each time they play and get to the highest score. Easy to adapt as needed by parents, teachers, and therapists for a variety of skill levels, and may be read aloud to your students if needed. Students can play on their own or with a caretaker, or assistant to guide them along and practice basic oral reading skills. Great for: • Students who need repetitive skill based exercises • Reading comprehension skills review • Synonym or Antonym practice with increased or decreased complexity • Problem solving with contextual clues and inferencing • Skills in everyday situations and conversations • Understanding and answering Synonym and/or Antonym style words • Featuring a variety of reasoning, prediction, sequential order questions and more… This app is an excellent teaching tool for a variety of ages of students or special needs population, with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Pervasive Developmental Delay (PDD-NOS), Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, developmental delays, and all language and speech delays. It can also be used to reinforce lessons through repetition. FEATURES: ---------------------------------------------------- • Over 400+ Synonym questions, always in random order • 20 levels ranging from easy to difficult as the levels increase • Motivationally animated voice feedback after responses • Brainy Bonus after every 5 correct questions • Exciting game format • Basic reading comprehension • 15, 30, 45, 60 second Timer option ---------------------------------------------------- Helps players improve reading comprehension skills while building confidence to score high! Try Brainy Skills Synonyms and Antonyms and make it easier to teach these skills to your developing reader.

Keywords Understanding LITE is a free version of Keyword Understanding. It gives you a sample of the content you would get in the full version. It allows you to see how the full version works and try it out for free. Keyword Understanding (the full app version) is a professional speech and language therapy app that works on sentence-level reading and listening comprehension. It also targets the understanding of vocabulary, basic concepts and the ability to follow directions of increasing keyword length. WHO IS KEYWORD UNDERSTANDING FOR? - Children with reduced attention and auditory processing difficulties - Children with language delay or disorder - Children with autism and language comprehension difficulties - Adults with aphasia and reading or spoken language comprehension difficulties after a stroke or traumatic brain injury - Adults with cognitive-communication difficulties due to stroke or brain injury WHAT LANGUAGE AREAS DOES KEYWORD UNDERSTANDING TARGET? FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS: Following directions is important in our everyday lives. In order to understand and follow directions, one needs a strong knowledge of basic concepts, vocabulary and the ability to process and retain spoken or written information in memory. BASIC CONCEPTS, ONE AND TWO STEP DIRECTIONS: Keyword Understanding works on the basic concepts of size and color as well as one and two-step directions of increasing length and difficulty e.g  - “Touch the red balloon” - “Touch the small green umbrella” - “Touch the yellow chair and the blue candle” - “Touch the big pink cupcake and the small green glasses”. TEMPORAL DIRECTIONS (BEFORE/AFTER): Keyword Understanding includes Temporal Directions tasks that target the child or adult’s ability to follow directions that include the concepts 'Before/After' in a variety of positions in the sentence. e.g  - “Before you touch the t-shirt, touch the phone” - “After you touch the lamp, touch the vase” - “Touch the flower before you touch the box” - “Touch the sock after you touch the bucket” SEQUENTIAL DIRECTIONS (FIRST…THEN): The app also includes Sequential Directions that target the child or adult’s ability to follow directions that include the concepts 'First ... Then' in the sentence. e.g  - “First touch the ladder, then touch the bike”. FEATURES OF KEYWORDS UNDERSTANDING LITE This FREE version, Keywords Understanding LITE allows you to sample each activity in the full version but it only includes 6 objects. The FULL version includes many more allowing for much more variety in each activity and many more trials. The full version also allows you to select and deselect vocabulary items in the Word List. 3 modes: - Listening Comprehension (Audio Only): Match the spoken direction to the pictures - Reading Comprehension (Text Only): Match the written direction to the pictures - Listening and Reading Comprehension (Audio and Text): Match the spoken and written directions to the pictures - Bright, colorful, real-life photos of common objects - 6 objects in five different colors and sizes. The full version has a large variety allowing for thousands of possible following directions tasks - 3 trials in each activity. The full version allows for up to 50 trials per session. - A comprehension check activity to find out where comprehension breakdown occurs - Audio feedback for correct answers only, incorrect answers only or both - Graded tasks of increasing difficulty - User profiles and result history - Automatic tracking of scores - Optional results summary via email - iOS voices (automatically selected based on your region). Download an enhanced iOS voice for best quality. All Aptus Speech Therapy apps participate in the 50% off Volume Purchase Program, so you can buy in bulk at a discounted price. Are you looking for a different kind of speech therapy app? Check out our full range of speech and language therapy apps for adults and children on the AppStore or on our website.