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Materials, books, games, software, and assisitve devices will periodically be featured IN THE SPOTLIGHT. This feature provides in-depth information about a product that may be useful to those considering a purchase. Additional information can be obtained by contacting the source of the product. Additional opinions and experiences with the product can be elicited by posting your question about a product on the HIGHLY RECOMMENDED message boards.
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Looking for good resources for SLPs, Teachers, and Parents? Check out the e-books available from Insight Speech: Click Here!
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September 2012
Title: Common Core Early Language Screener
Author: Smarty Ears
Source: www.smartyearsapps.com and from the App Store
Price: $34.99
Description: SmartyEars recently released the “Common Core Early Language Screener,” a bright, colorful, easy-to-score screener for pre-K and K students (although it can also be used with older students who may be functioning at a lower level). Twenty-three skills are assessed, including letter and number recognition, prepositions, various phonological awareness tasks, following 1-2 part directions, vocabulary, categories, and auditory memory. Directions and prompts are presented on one screen; stimulus items and simple scoring are presented on the next. The number of test items varies with the grade level of the child (pre K, early K, late K). At the conclusion of the test, a report is generated which shows each skill, the number of correct and possible answers, and accuracy percentage.
June 2012
Title: Custom Boards-Premium
Author: Smarty Ears
Source: www.smartyearsapps.com and from the App Store
Price: $39.99
Description: At last! An app that allows the user to create symbol-based materials! Custom Boards contains a over 100 pre-made templates for activities, worksheets, and game boards, signs and labels, schedules and calendars, communication board grids, and overlays for switches and communication devices. The app also offers 11,000 Smarty Symbols, arranged by category. Populating the grids with symbols, text, and colored backgrounds couldn't be easier. Simply select the category you want, scroll through, then touch the desired symbol to select it. You can also use the search box to locate symbols. In addition, you can import symbols and photos imported from your camera or the Internet. Once your page is created, touch the check mark to preview, print, email as a PDF, save, or add to your photo library.
While Custom Boards is quite intuitive, the in-app tutorial is very well done and worth viewing to get you started. You can also view this tutorial on the Smarty Ears website as a way of previewing the app before buying.
I would definitely recommend the Custom Boards app as a quick, easy way to create personalized materials for communication and so much more!
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Looking for good resources for SLPs, Teachers, and Parents? Check out the e-books available from Insight Speech: Click Here!
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September 2012
Title: Common Core Early Language Screener
Author: Smarty Ears
Source: www.smartyearsapps.com and from the App Store
Price: $34.99
Description: SmartyEars recently released the “Common Core Early Language Screener,” a bright, colorful, easy-to-score screener for pre-K and K students (although it can also be used with older students who may be functioning at a lower level). Twenty-three skills are assessed, including letter and number recognition, prepositions, various phonological awareness tasks, following 1-2 part directions, vocabulary, categories, and auditory memory. Directions and prompts are presented on one screen; stimulus items and simple scoring are presented on the next. The number of test items varies with the grade level of the child (pre K, early K, late K). At the conclusion of the test, a report is generated which shows each skill, the number of correct and possible answers, and accuracy percentage.
Part of my responsibility each spring as a school-age SLP is to visit local preschools and private kindergartens to do the transition evals for students already identified through early intervention. My load was lightened this year when I switched from a traditional (bulky) articulation test to my new favorite “Sunny Articulation Test,” an iPad app also by SmartyEars. This coming spring, I can lighten my load even more. No more lugging boxes of testing materials for language! Armed with my iPad and this new Common Core Early Language Screener, I can now do articulation and language screening in a format that the little ones respond well to, that produce useful reports, and that keep my travel light. And, as with the Sunny Articulation Test, there are no test protocols to purchase, ever. Love it!
June 2012
Title: Custom Boards-Premium
Author: Smarty Ears
Source: www.smartyearsapps.com and from the App Store
Price: $39.99
Description: At last! An app that allows the user to create symbol-based materials! Custom Boards contains a over 100 pre-made templates for activities, worksheets, and game boards, signs and labels, schedules and calendars, communication board grids, and overlays for switches and communication devices. The app also offers 11,000 Smarty Symbols, arranged by category. Populating the grids with symbols, text, and colored backgrounds couldn't be easier. Simply select the category you want, scroll through, then touch the desired symbol to select it. You can also use the search box to locate symbols. In addition, you can import symbols and photos imported from your camera or the Internet. Once your page is created, touch the check mark to preview, print, email as a PDF, save, or add to your photo library.
While Custom Boards is quite intuitive, the in-app tutorial is very well done and worth viewing to get you started. You can also view this tutorial on the Smarty Ears website as a way of previewing the app before buying.
I would definitely recommend the Custom Boards app as a quick, easy way to create personalized materials for communication and so much more!
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