It is that time again! How about using Smarty Ears screening & assessment apps to make your back to school days much easier and less stressful? Smarty Ears has a collection of screening and assessment apps that are perfect for the first few weeks of school. Learn more about them by watching video tutorials or reading the reviews done by professionals using these amazing tools. Check out our apps on sale until August 19th, 2013:

ATEval2GO

Description: This app is designed to help you document all observations and considerations essential to an assistive technology evaluation. ATEval2Go transfers the recording functions accomplished by paper, heavy computer equipment and other devices to the portable and easy-to-use iPad interface.

Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ateval2go/id558203150?mt=8

Video Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We6mvN9haOc

Common Core Early Language Screener

Description: The Common Core Early Language Screener (CCELS) is a screening tool used to identify  weaknesses in early language skills. The CCELS was designed to be used with Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten aged children; however, the screener can be used for other groups if needed. The skills assessed on the CCELS vary depending on the grade level choice selected by the evaluator.

Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/common-core-early-language/id541400223?mt=8

Video Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK5kYd6Zg28

Basic Concepts Skills Screener  (New release)

Description: Basic Concepts Skill Screener (BCSS) is a quick, motivational screening tool created to help assess the basic concept skills in children. Designed by certified speech-language pathologists, BCSS uses technology to engage clients while assessing their school readiness skills. Perfect for all levels from preschool to early elementary, BCSS assesses the concept skills needed for pre-reading and math skills. The Basic Concepts Skills Screener is sure to be a great app for the busy speech-language pathologist, teacher, parent, or caregiver. Available in Portuguese & English

Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/basic-concepts-skills-screener/id670072162?mt=8

Video Tutorial:https://vimeo.com/69751227

Bilingual Articulation Phonology Assessment

Description: The Bilingual Articulation and Phonology Assessment (BAPA) was developed for the purpose of assess-ing the articulatory and phonological abilities of Spanish-speaking and bilingual (English-Spanish) children. Best practices for assessment of speech sound disorders for bilingual children recommends an as-sessment of all languages spoken by the child. Through assessing both languages, one can more easily rule out or explain second-language influences and can describe errors observed in both languages as well as those errors specific to each language.

Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bilingual-articulation-phonology/id460830225?mt=8

Video Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWkKldRwu8k

Dysphagia2Go

Description: Dysphagia2Go guides you through the evaluation process with reminders to assess medications, cranial nerves and all the areas on which any good dysphagia evaluation should focus. This app provides a thorough evaluation report template developed by speech pathologists who have drawn upon their experience in varied settings to provide extensive opportunities to record chart reviews, assessment data, and recommendations in a single document, which can then be printed or e-mailed directly from the user’s iPad.  ( Soon available in Spanish, Portuguese and Italian)

Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dysphagia2go/id469925526?mt=8

Video Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=UUnfQBth_ZvErj1iqZixkC0A&v=3Pzl8uin8dE

Sunny Articulation Phonology Test (Everyone’s favorite)

Description: The Sunny Articulation and Phonology Test can be used to identify articulation errors patterns in children as well as adults. The Sunny Articulation Phonology Test (SAPT) is an individually administered clinical tool for screening, identification, diagnosis and follow-up evaluation of articulation skills in English speaking individuals.

Video Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYT3J0_2YZU

Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sunny-articulation-phonology/id371280343?mt=8

Profile of Phonological Awareness

Description: The Profile of Phonological Awareness (Pro-PA) was developed for the purpose of evaluating and describing the phonological awareness skills of children. This evaluation can be considered as part of a full speech, language, and/or literacy evaluation or can be stand alone.

Video Tutorial: http://smartyearsapps.com/service/profile-phonological-awareness/ Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/profile-phonological-awareness/id484657843?mt=8

Disfluency Index Counter

Description: The easiest, cheapest and most advanced way to track your %SS (Percentage of stuttered syllables).The Disfluency Index Counter app allows Speech and Language Therapists to perform a live count of the number of fluent or disfluent syllables. This application comes with two styles of counters: A simple and an advanced counter.

Video Tutorial: http://smartyearsapps.com/service/disfluency-index-counter/ Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/disfluency-index-counter/id366359722?mt=8

Therapy Report Center ( FREE)

Description: In the past, when you downloaded a new Smarty Ears app you would have to add each student to the app, one by one. Now with the TRC, you enter your students on TRC only once and export all of the students at the same time to each newly downloaded or existing Smarty Ears app. This makes the process of adding students one by one to many apps a simple two-step process. In the past, if you owned 10 Smarty Ears apps, and had 40 students on your caseload, you would have to repeat the process of adding students 400 times. The TRC saves time and makes the use of the iPad even more efficient.

Video Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZZGTx44iQE Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/therapy-report-center/id590197451?mt=8   You can also learn more about all our screening and assessment apps here: http://smartyearsapps.com/assessment/