Reviewed by Alison
Pocket Artic by PocketSLP is a univeral app which helps children with articulation delays related to speech. Pocket SLP was started by Corey Walker and his wife Karen Lopez-Walker who are both speech pathologists in 2009 after they noticed that their three year old son was using their iPod touch for educational learning. This app provides over two thousand flashcards which target both individual words and sentences allowing children to be involved using auditory feedback, sensory feedback via pushing buttons and swiping the way through the app. The app offers 29 phoneme (sound) selections, including seven /r/ and it’s variations. The app was developed by practicing speech and language pathologists (SLPs) and allows the parent or person working with the child to select which phonemes they need to work on in any given session. The app uses real time scoring and provides a summary screen which reveals percentages specific to the phoneme and word position which can be useful for testing related to mastery of these sounds. This app can be used with multiple children making it useful for therapists, teachers and parents of multiple children with speech delays. The app features a variety of methods to use it, including “auditory feedback” which can be turned on/off or “silly sounds”; “practice mode” which allows the child to practice and have language modeling; word or sentence level practice which allows either a single word or a sentence containing the target phoneme; randomization of cards after completing the deck and ability to email the results.
I liked that my son was cued to describe the images on the screen during the app and that real time scoring was involved to allow me to better understand how he was doing. I shared the summary data with his speech therapist which helped her to understand how we were doing in our home program. I also liked seeing the images which indicated how the tongue should be positioned for the phoneme which was targeted, although as a parent I’m sure they were not as useful to me as they would be to a speech therapist. As a parent, it was helpful to work with the speech therapist to understand how to best use the app before initiating it in our home program and I would encourage others to do so. I also liked that we were able to tailor the program to my son’s needs rather than having to use cards which were not necessary for his speech program.
I think that the directions were a little confusing – I would suggest that a prompt for the introductory video pops up when using the app for the first time. This answers many questions and eases frustration especially when adding people as clients to the app. I would have also liked the ability to “sound out” words that might be difficult for a particular child. Although it focuses on sound development – a word like “kitchen” can be very difficult for a child and unless they are able to hear it multiple times correctly they may have trouble modeling the word.
Pocket Artic from Pocket SLP on Vimeo.
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Pocket Artic
by Synapse Apps, LLC
Category: Education, Health & Fitness Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPadThirdGen, iPadThirdGen4G, iPod Touch (3. Gen.), iPadMini, iPadFourthGen4G, iPad WiFi, iPhone5, iPad 3G, iPad 2 WiFI, iPod Touch (4. Gen.), iPadFourthGen, iPhone4S, iPodTouchFifthGen, iPad 2 3G, iPadMini4G Size: 57.52 MB |
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Alison
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I am a SLP. Kids are really motivated to work on speech/articulation issues when it involves the iPad. I would use Pocket Artic in therapy with my clients. Thank you for the opportunity!
I would love to win this to give to an SLP friend of mine.
I would love to have this app to use in my speech therapy sessions! It would be so useful!
I would love this app for working on articulation goals with my students.
I would love to use this app with my articulation students!
This would make articulation therapy fun for my clients!
I would love to add this to my arsenal for use in sessions with young children on my caseload.
This app would be great for data collection!
As a school speech path i am always looking for ways to improve therapy with my students. I would love to see this app in action !
I would love to have this for working with my speech students.
I’m really enjoying your website.
My daughter is 14 and has moderateto severe speech impairment. I buy as apps I can because they help her a lot. I’d love to try this one.
This would be a great way to keep data for my students!
This will be great for the school’s SLPs.
As, a Speech Language Pathologist working in the schools, this app would be great not only for the real pictures used but also for the ability to collect data and produce the graph to show progress. It’s all about progress monitoring!
I would LOVE to win this! I have so many artic students on my caseload and it would be nice to have something different to use!
Armed with my new iPad I am nearly ready to start school in a week, and get all techie! I would love to have Pocket Artic as my go to app!
This would be great to use in my speech therapy sessions!
I have other artic cards, but like the idea that this one has pictures of how to make the sounds. Just got an Ipad to use at work and am considering this articulation one.
I would like to use this for my son to work on his articulation issues.
I am always on the lookout for apps for my son whom has special needs. I would use this app for home therapy and would share the results with his SLP
I would love this for working with my speech students
I would use this as part of my 5 minute artic at school.
I like this great speech and language app for my kid. I wish to win this wonderful app.
I don’t understand half what my son says.
I would love to win this app to help my daughter with her articulation issues which are becoming more severe than we originally realized.