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Language & social skills

Must-Have Apps for the Middle School SLP

📅 May 7, 2022⏱️ 1 min read
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  • Most speech therapy apps feel made for younger children, but some fit middle schoolers well.
  • PrepPositions and Verb Quest target grammar; Sentence Ninja builds sentences.
  • Reading Comprehension Camp and Social Quest work on comprehension and social communication.

Let’s face it: it can feel as if every speech therapy app was made for elementary school children. If you serve older students, you may feel left out of the technology that swept through our profession.

Over the years, Smarty Ears has heard from hundreds of speech-language pathologists just like you. Some of our apps not only feel right for older students, they were made specifically for the areas where middle schoolers struggle.

Here are our favorite apps for your middle schoolers:

PrepPositions by Smarty Ears is an engaging way to teach and reinforce the use of prepositions. PrepPositions is a fabulous tool to help school-aged children, English Language Learners, and those who may benefit from additional language support.

Verb Quest uses a fun magical theme to engage clients in their learning while teaching verbs. Easily customizable to fit nearly every need, Verb Quest is an engaging activity for students and a great addition to the therapy toolbox.

Thirty-nine levels of multiplayer customizable sentence practice, with a ninja theme. Music can be turned on or off.

With multiple levels, 50 stories, 11 diverse questions associated with each story and the ability to create your own stories, this is one of the best apps for students struggling with comprehension.

Social Quest incorporates narratives about real-world situations in the home, school and community along with questions designed to increase positive social communication.

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Real-world social situations at home, school and in the community, with questions that build social communication.

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