Turtle Pacing Board vs Fonemo Plus+

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

Make speech therapy fun with Fonemo Plus+. When you buy Fonemo Plus+ you get all speech sounds automatically. "I really liked that the app is easy to setup and understand. I think this is a nice alternative to the standard speech practice sheets that are often sent home." says Amanda Blackburn, reviewer on the website iHeartThisApp. Fonemo Plus+ is a tool to help children with speech sound disorders. With Fonemo Plus+ you can practice for instance the sound s in many ways. To make the training of speech sounds fun, Fonemo Plus+ works as a game. Saying words out loud is part of the game. You can record the childs pronunciation and together you can listen to it. If you have played the game memory you can play Fonemo Plus+. Pair cards with images that are alike. In Fonemo Plus+ all the images contain words with the current speech sound. Whenever you wonder how a word is pronounced the teddy bear can help you. Poke the teddy in the belly and teddy will tell you what’s on the card. Then you can press the microphone that you will find on the game board, repeat the word and listen to it. The recorded sound will play automatically, but you can also press the speaker if you want to listen to it again. Fonemo Plus+ is easy to learn. The child does not have to be literate since the game is based on images. The cards contain words with the current speech sound in the beginning, the middle or in the end. You can also practice the speech sound adjacent to a vowel, a consonant or mulitple consonants. Do you want to see something funny? Poke the teddy in the belly before you turn the first card! How to play Fonemo Plus+ Turn a card by poking it. Turn a second card. If the two cards look the same, it's a pair. And you have won it! If you play as a single player, pair all cards on the board. If you are two players keep pairing cards until there is a mismatch. Then the turn goes to the other player. A green light will help you keep track on who’s turn it is. When you have matched two cards and got a pair, it is the same players turn again, the green light will then flash to remind you. You can vary Fonemo Plus+ in many ways: • Play with the f-sound • Play with the g-sound • Play with the k-sound • Play with the l-sound • Play with the r-sound • Play with the s-sound Play with the current speech sound • in the beginning of the word • in the middle of the word • in the end of the word • or a mix of all words • Single player with no opponent • Two players sitting next to each other • Two players sitting opposite each other • Easy level: Few cards with words easy to pronounce • Medium level • Hard level: Lots of cards with more difficult words • Listen to the word every time you turn a card • Listen to the word when you poke the teddy bear's belly Fonemo Plus+ has a parent lock to the helpsection and external links. You can play Fonemo Plus+ in English or Swedish. To change language you need to change it in the iPad's settings. The number of speech sounds can vary in the different languages. In the family of Fonemo-apps there are • Fonemo - all speech sounds are included (iPad) • Fonemo Foto - all speech sounds are included, the app is based on photographs instead of drawings(iPad) • Minifonemo - a smaller version (iPhone) • Fonemo Lite - a free version to test s-sound (iPad)