Looking for effective and engaging apps for speech therapy and some new tools to help out in your next SLP session? Whether your expertise is articulation, expressive language, receptive language, social skills integration, or another specialty, the top ten speech therapy apps that made our list have a lot to offer school-based SLPs — and the children they help.
1. Articulation Station
Developer: Little Bee Speech
Cost: Free (Full version is $89.99)
Available From: Apple iTunes App Store (Full / Free)
Articulation Station is the flagship app of Little Bee Speech and is intended to serve as a comprehensive program to help those with speech sound delays. SLPs can use the app in individual and group therapy sessions, facilitating the practice of 22 sounds and collecting data to help evaluate progress. Parents can find this useful for reinforcing therapeutic goals at home. There is a free version of the app, and the full version (“Articulation Station Pro”) is $89.99.
2. ArtikPix
Developer: Expressive Solutions
Cost: Free (Full version is $39.99)
Available From: Apple iTunes App Store (Full / Free)
This articulation app enables children to practice their speech using flashcards and matching activities. Collecting, saving, and exporting time-stamped data (per student) is possible for individual sessions and group therapy for up to four children at a time. The free version gives you “th,” “w,” “y,” and “h” decks. An additional 20 decks are available as an In-App purchase, with discounts available for all or multiple decks.
3. Conversation Therapy
Developer: Tactus Therapy Solutions Limited
Cost: $24.99 (Trial version with 1% of content is available)
Available From: Apple iTunes App Store / Google Play Store
Ideal for children aged nine and older, this app gives therapists more than 3,000 questions to use as prompts, helping students who aim to progress in expressive language, pragmatics, problem-solving, and cognitive communication. Individual and group therapy is customizable with individual goal tracking and reporting available.
4. Keyword Understanding
Developer: Aptus Speech & Language Therapy Limited
Cost: $16.99
Available From: Apple iTunes App Store
A receptive language app, Keyword Understanding helps children experiencing auditory processing difficulties, receptive language disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and reduced attention. Basic concepts (e.g. size and color) are addressed, and included are prompts to follow directions with up to two steps in increasing difficulty. Therapists can facilitate learning in auditory mode, text mode, or both.
5. Let’s be Social: Social Skills Development
Developer: Everyday Speech LLC
Cost: Free
Available From: Apple iTunes App Store
Speech therapists, special education paraprofessionals, and parents can find value in this app, which contains 40 written and five video lessons. Lesson plans are customizable for K-12 children and can be utilized in therapy for those experiencing developmental delays, social/emotional issues, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and deafness. Lesson segments include personal interactions, navigating the community, behavior, change, and relationships.
6. Sensory CineVox
Developer: Sensory Apps Ltd.
Cost: Free
Available From: Apple iTunes App Store / Google Chrome Browser Extension
Want to encourage children to make certain sounds, and be visually engaged in the process? CineVox, a speech therapy game tool, responds to sounds with fun graphics. 21 different visual effects show patients the results of their vocalization. Variations in producing fricative sounds (e.g. shhh) will change the display appearance.
7. Word Vault / Word Vault Pro
Developer: Home Speech Home
Cost: Free (Pro Features version is $5.99 per month / $54.99 per year)
Available From: Apple iTunes Apps Store
This app is designed for both children and adults. You can access audio and high-definition images for 8100 words, 1800 phrases & sentences, and 115 stories to address articulation and language skills. This includes real-world photos for over 3800 minimal pairs and almost 300 multi-syllabic words. There are over 120 categories for language building and over 25 social language categories. Interactive materials found with the Pro version are located in the Phonology, Language, and Social Vaults. You can create individual or group files to track your clients’ data.
8. Speech FlipBook Standard
Developer: Tactus Therapy Solutions Limited
Cost: Free (Full version is $9.99)
Available From: Apple iTunes App Store
Therapists, teachers, and parents can use this talking flipbook, which is customizable to individual student needs. Speech therapy practitioners can generate specific word lists–for example, focusing on all words that begin or end with a certain sound–and help students hear their progress using recording and playback features. The free version includes 16 sounds and 40 words with the option to upgrade to more than 2,300-word recordings, 125 phonemes and clusters, all vowels and consonants, and more than 250 sets of homophones.
9. Speech Tutor
Developer: Synapse Apps, LLC
Cost: $24.99 (Pro version is $69.99)
Available From: Apple iTunes App Store
Have you ever wished you could show a child the inside of the mouth as they practice sounds? Speech Tutor, another one-of-a-kind speech therapy app, makes the face visually transparent as sounds are being made. The animation is viewable at three speeds and can be paused – helping students see where they have succeeded and where further speech therapy practice is necessary. There are 132 animations, recording capability and, if practicing speech with parents at home, tips provided by SLPs.
10. Language Therapy 4 in 1
Developer: Tactus Therapy Solutions Limited
Cost: $74.99
Available From: Apple iTunes App Store / Google Play
If desired, you can purchase any of the 4 apps included in this robust collection individually. The full app includes over 700 core nouns, verbs, and adjectives, and it features thousands of exercises, activities, and recommendations on what to focus on next based on the clients’ scores. The 4 areas include Comprehension Therapy (understanding spoken language), Naming Therapy (to strengthen word-finding skills), Reading Therapy (addressing literacy skills), and Writing Therapy (addressing spelling skills).
SLPs – if you use any of the above apps, we would love your feedback on how it worked for you in the comments section! And if there’s an “app for that” not listed above and you believe it should be, please share it with us!
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