Couldnt agree more with the need for SLPs to create more imaginative and appealing apps. As a profession we are creative and dynamic but these skills are only just beginning to be reflected in SLP apps. Speaking from experience, developing an SLP app is an exciting and rewarding (if not time consuming and!!)experience. Our app [...]
Heather - You don't have to be a technical designer to create apps - you just need to know one. What we need are more SLPs to AUTHOR apps - meaning you create the content and draw up your own ideas for the layout and interactivity. You can pay a private techie to code it [...]
I agree that some of the apps are really uninspiring. I don't have the technical know-how to design, but even still in grad school I do think about what could make some of the apps better and inspiring.
When I last searched there were 191 audio recording apps available on iTunes. These type of apps can be cute, such as Chippy Talk, or a bad dude like Talking Fred. The common denominator among these apps, in addition to their audio recording ability, is their interactivity with the user. Touch the animal, person, robot, [...]
The iPad and apps are here to stay and have the potential for dramatically altering the manner in which we provide services. The interactive ability of apps is one feature that makes it stand out from the traditional materials we have spent a small fortune accumulating. Another feature is action or moveability. Figures can move [...]
I think I'll make this post a short one. Instead of going into a lot of detail about the app, I'll give the basics and then make my recommendation.Baby Cortex, the developer, has put out 11 apps to date of which a large number are musical apps such as Baby Piano, Baby Classical Mozart and [...]
You may have read my previous blog that reviewed the Families 1 and 2 apps created by myfirstapps.com. Below, I review 3 additional apps by this company.The goal of the Opposites app is to drag 2 pictures with opposite meanings into the two boxes in the middle of the screen. There are 10 pictures, 5 [...]
The company myfirstapp.com has created a host of fine apps targeting categorization, opposites, and more. All of the apps feature clear, colorful and attractive pictures. The apps can be downloaded for free. With the free download come 3 games. For $.99 an additional 3 games can be downloaded to the app. The apps I've downloaded [...]
This app is based on the My Very First Books by Eric Carle. Interestingly, the name of this vocab app was also my very first app downloaded for therapy. It was the app that taught me the lesson that there are far better free apps available. Now, I don't assume that there is a direct [...]
The first thing one may want to do when opening the Fruit Find app is hit the music note icon, located on the upper right hand side of the screen, to off. If one doesn't do this, the at first pleasant music begins to feel like a worm in one's ear.The name Fruit Find is [...]
