Happy
October!
I came across a couple of apps today that I think would be fun to
use in therapy over the next couple of weeks.
Although they are not traditional speech therapy apps, with a little
creativity, they are great apps that engage students and address goals.
The first app is called Halloween Sound Shelf. This app is really just a bookshelf of Halloween
icons that make a spooky sound when you press them. This would be a great
in a group activity for making a story about Halloween. This could
be done with Halloween vocabulary words or Halloween themed articulation
targets. The kids write out a story and choose sounds to go into their
story. Students can take turns being the “reader” and being the
"sound guy". I really think the kids would get into this
activity and I can't wait to try it next week with my students.
The second app is called Monster Mash Lite. This is like one of those old flip books
where you can change the head, torso and legs to create new monsters. I
think this would work well for kids working on describing. They can
create their own monster and then describe it to the other students or
therapist. Another idea would be to use the app like a barrier game and
have the other students to draw what the student describes. The students
can then look at the iPad monster and drawn monsters and find the similarities
and differences.
Let me know in
the comments if you find other ones and how you would use them in therapy!
