Therapy ideas you can use tomorrow, app tips, and news from Smarty Ears, written by speech-language pathologists for SLPs, educators and families.
Smarty Ears Online now has 90+ activities, 37 of them in Spanish, and 11 brand-new ones from October, like Speech Go Fish, Sentence Ninja
Go Fish has a carrier phrase built in: “Do you have a…?” turns single-word practice into phrase-level practice.
Expressive Go 4.0 adds a Pre-Emptive Grammatical Intervention System that applies grammar before speech output, with no pop-up menus.
Spanish-speaking students often go without culturally and linguistically authentic articulation materials.
Smarty Ears and Linguabilities partnered to bring technology and qualified clinicians to school-age children with communication disorders.
All eight Language Empires activities are now separate games in Smarty Ears Online, each with data tracking.
AAT Plus gives a detailed picture of articulation skills, with recording, automatic analysis and instant reports.
Special education works best when teachers, therapists, families and leaders act as one team.
The Complimentary University Access Grant Program gives university SLP programs free or discounted access to Smarty Ears Online.
Many US students speak a language other than English at home, yet bilingual SLPs and materials are scarce.
In 2023, Smarty Ears offered a 30-day free trial of Smarty Ears Online for the back-to-school season.
Describe It To Me is now an activity in Smarty Ears Online.
Technology now gives students personalized, interactive ways to practice social skills, a shift the pandemic sped up.
Engagement and progress monitoring are central to good outcomes in special education.
Practicing at home between therapy sessions helps children improve their speech sounds.
SLP software covers scheduling, billing, caseload management, data tracking, resource libraries, material creation and teletherapy.
Smarty Ears Online brings activities from popular Smarty Ears apps to any modern browser, not just the iPad.
Keeping apps working with every new iOS version takes ongoing work, which a one-time fee can no longer support.
Talkie Tot was made for Barbara’s daughter Alice, who had a language delay and was starting to combine words.
Assessing bilingual students means testing both languages and allowing for different Spanish dialects.
iOS 11 removed many outdated apps from the App Store, which made shopping for good apps easier.
Good communication draws on many skills, so a balanced plan covers each of them.
Phonological awareness is one of the building blocks of learning to read. ProPA screens phonological awareness and writes the report for you.
Expressive language is what a child can communicate; receptive language is what they understand.
A free printable PDF of Clever the duck showing different feelings. Use it to teach emotion words and talk about when students feel the
Most speech therapy apps feel made for younger children, but some fit middle schoolers well.
An SLP and mom of three shares what she learned about speech at home. Reading together, sound hunts, mirror play and plenty of talking
Spelling supports reading and writing, and it still matters for school and job applications.
For Better Hearing and Speech Month 2022, Smarty Ears hosted seven free webinars. Topics included articulation, language, vocabulary and literacy.
Phonological awareness is the ability to notice and work with the sounds in words, and it is key for learning to read.
After a stroke, therapy and the right apps can help people recover language skills.
Smarty Ears has made apps since 2009, before the iPad existed, and keeps updating them.
Children who have difficulty with spoken language are often at risk of reading problems.
Social Quest gives older students realistic practice with situations at home, at school and in the community.
Promo codes are redeemed in the App Store app on your iPad or iPhone. Tap your profile picture, then Redeem Gift Card or Code,
“What is the best articulation app?” is hard to answer fairly, since few people have tried them all.
Translating speech and language apps takes more than a translator: it needs SLPs who know both languages.
2015 brought new apps: Yes/No Barn, Smarty Spell, Auditory Memory Club, PrepPositions, GoWords, GoSequencing and iScreen Aphasia.
In 2015, Smarty Ears released its first paper product: GoSequencing: Self Help Skills flashcards.
Smarty Ears has exhibited at every TSHA convention since 2010.
In 2014, Smarty Ears was one of the first developers featured on Yapp Guru.
In 2014, Apple started letting developers sell apps together in bundles. Smarty Ears launched bundles for elementary language, articulation and adults.
WhQuestions now works in Spanish, Portuguese and French, and Fun & Functional in Spanish and Portuguese.
Barbara Fernandes presented at the 2014 ASHA Convention in Orlando.
WhQuestions now works in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese, all in one app.
Barbara Fernandes led a hands-on iPad workshop for SLPs in New York City in October 2014.
BAPA 2.0 was the first articulation and phonology assessment fully standardized on the iPad.
Smarty Ears sponsored the 2013 ASHA Convention in Chicago, which set an attendance record.
iName it now works in Spanish and Portuguese, as well as English.
iPad assessments take the paper protocols, hand transcription and hours of scoring out of articulation testing.
Articulate it! 3.5 added printable certificates of mastery. It included over 160 homework sheets you could print or email without wi-fi.
Sentence Ninja teaches English word order, from two-word phrases to complex sentences.
Screening and assessment apps make the first weeks of school faster and less stressful.
App reviews from bloggers help parents and SLPs choose apps before buying.
A stroke or Alzheimer’s disease can make reading difficult. Reading Rehabilitation Toolkit offers six reading activities at the word and phrase levels.
Smarty Ears earned the Teachers with Apps Certified Developer certification. It was one of the first 15 developers to receive it.
In 2012, Smarty Ears and The iMums gave away an iPad mini with a case and a bundle of apps. The giveaway was open
Language Adventures is a game board for vocabulary, naming and description in real-world settings.
Articulation Scenes turns hidden-picture scenes into speech sound practice.
Barbara Fernandes’ book “Sis, You Got This” tells her journey as an immigrant who became an SLP and entrepreneur.
An SLP shows how she uses the receptive, expressive and alternating settings of Fun & Functional. Each setting saves data and emails results.
Go-Togethers builds semantic networks by having students connect words that go together.
About one million Americans live with aphasia or apraxia, and most have trouble finding words.
Articulate it! and Custom Boards were finalists for “Favorite Special-Needs App” in About.com’s 2012 Readers’ Choice Awards.
Use WhQuestions to get a baseline for each wh-question form, three forms at a time. Mix up turns in groups to build attention and
Dysphagia2Go guided clinicians through a complete clinical dysphagia evaluation on the iPad.
An SLP shares four ways she uses Articulate Plus, from quick “articulation rounds” in classrooms to group sessions.
Three therapy activities made with Custom Boards templates.
In January 2010, Smarty Ears released WhQuestions, one of the first speech therapy apps.
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