How to Teach Spelling to Your Child
Being a good speller is a gift that many of us don’t appreciate enough. There are so many ways good spelling is essential in everyday life. WHY SPELLING IS IMPORTANT? Poor spelling can greatly affect reading and writing skills. It can hinder your child’s progress in school. Teaching your child to be a better speller […]
Why is the Social Quest app so Successful with Students Struggling with Social Skills?
There is a lot of social fabric that we take for granted because it just seems invisible to us. It’s so integral to our everyday lives that it just fades into the background, but that simply isn’t true for everyone…Little social norms that seem like nothing to you and me can be really overwhelming and […]
Smarty Ears providing more apps to help children communicate around the world
Founded by a language and culture lover, Smarty Ears CEO, Barbara Fernandes is vested in providing quality apps that will help children not only in English but also in as many languages as possible. Smarty Ears has released a new version of two apps: WhQuestions & Fun & Functional that will help children with language […]
Smarty Ears releases app in four languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish & French
Smarty Ears has not only been the leader in app development for speech, language and communication apps, but also has started to push the development of the first apps in languages other than English for promoting language and speech development. Smarty Ears is proud to announce the release of WhQuestions in three additional languages: French, […]
Smarty Ears & Billinguistics release the first app truly standardized on the iPad
Over the last four years, Smarty Ears and Bilinguistics have been working on the first and only articulation app fully standardized on the iPad. The Bilingual Articulation and Phonology Assessment has been available on the app store since 2011 as a non-standardized qualitative assessment of Spanish only articulation and phonology skills. In 2012, […]
App for helping people with Aphasia goes global
Award-Winning producer of iPad apps for individuals with communication difficulties updates its iName It app in order to support iOS 7 and add two new languages, Spanish and Portuguese. Dallas, TX – October 29, 2013 – Smarty Ears is excited to announce that it has updated its app, iName It, adding two new languages: Spanish […]
Smarty Ears Releases Its New App for iPad, Sentence Ninja
Award-Winning producer of iPad apps for those with learning disabilities launches its newest app, Sentence Ninja. Sentence Ninja is designed to help children and adults improve their English sentence structure skills. Desoto, TX – October 5, 2013 – Smarty Ears is pleased to announce the release of its newest educational app, “Sentence Ninja”. This app […]
I love Articulation Scenes
I am always looking for ways to make articulation practice fun. Picture cards and worksheets work but if I get bored then I know the kids are too. I found that using hidden pictures is a way to work on targeted sounds with a fun twist. Now this app from Smarty Ears brings this twist […]
Ground-Breaking App for Individuals with Word Finding Difficulties
Dallas, TX (March 22, 2012) – Approximately one million people in America (one out of 275 adults) suffer from some form of Aphasia and/or Apraxia. As a result, the majority of these individuals face word finding difficulties, the inability to think of and retrieve the right words. Clinicians have created several evidence-based cueing strategies for […]
Dysphagia2Go-Revolutionizing the Dysphagia App World
by Tiffani Wallace Call me a little partial, but I LOVE this app. Dysphagia2Go has given me a new way to utilize my iPad in my dysphagia therapy. I also can use it with the confidence that it is HIPAA compliant. Yes, I am one of the authors, but this app was created out of […]