Reviewed by Grace
Receptive Language Assessment by The Speech And Language Store LLP is a tool specifically designed for Speech and Language Pathologists/Therapists, educators and any professionals qualified in child development to assess language comprehension skills from preschool level upwards. It tests a variety of word and sentence types at 4 different levels of complexity.
You begin every session by customising the app in the Settings on the Home screen:-
1) spoken or written instructions or both
2) US or UK voice
3) US or UK vocabulary
4) turn on/off Splingo’s fun animations as rewards for every 4 consecutive correct answers.
To access the Settings while the assessment is in progress is more cumbersome as you will need to exit the assessment (after you’ve saved it) to return to the Home screen to change the settings. So it is recommended that you get that done at the beginning. After that, you can create a new profile or select an existing one. If you wish, you can personalize each profile with the child’s photo.
From there, you can start a new assessment or resume a previously saved incomplete test. With new assessments, you can choose to start from any of these 4 different levels:-
• 1 main word – object nouns, personal nouns, location nouns, verbs, prepositions, size adjectives, color adjectives and attribute adjectives
• 2 main words – 7 different sentence types e.g. object-person, adjective-object
• 3 main words – 7 different sentence types, e.g. adjective-object-location, person-action-location
• 4 main words – 7 different sentence types, e.g. object-preposition-adjective-location, person-action-preposition-location.
The app automatically progress to the next level when the student completes a level and still willing to continue. There are a total of 119 instructions – 56 in Level 1, 21 in Levels 2, 3 and 4.
It is easy for students to respond to the assessment questions. They just need to tap the right answers or drag and drop items to the correct positions. You can use the Demo to give the students a short practice before starting. If you prefer to read the instructions yourself, you can generate a blank report form from the Information page and manually record the student’s wrong response or even leave your own notes in it. This report can then be emailed for printing later. The pictorial representation for the objects are clear and for the prepositional concepts, arrows are shown on the screen to prompt the student where they can place the objects. There is a repeat button if you need to hear the instruction again. This app also allows you to pause the assessment at any time to save and resume later, or when you decide to conclude the assessment.
The student’s responses are saved automatically upon completion of an assessment and can be emailed to parents or yourself for printing/records-keeping. You can view and retrieve the past reports to see the language development over time. Each report shows all the individual target sentences attempted against the actual responses made by the student, it indicates which were correctly or wrongly answered and even displays the students’ wrong responses so that common mistakes can be identified and addressed.
Wish list:-
1) A full stop at the end of each sentence.
2) Ability to control the settings easily during assessment.
3) Less space devoted to the student’s details in the report format so as to better utilize the space.
4) A lite version for trying out the app.
This app has been designed purely for assessment purposes, there is no learning mode where the students get immediate feedback on his answers nor is there any opportunity for the student to try again until he gets the right answers. Furthermore, you will need some expertise in child language development in order to interpret the assessment results. Parents looking for an app for developing their children’s receptive language should check out the developer’s other app, Splingo’s Language Universe instead.
Getting a comprehensive assessment is the first step to starting a language intervention program and the tool used should ideally be easy to use and motivating for the students in order to capture their true abilities (and needs). Children love to use the iPad and doing the assessment on it takes away a lot of their test anxieties. With an easy to use interface and detailed data collection, Receptive Language Assessment is an assessment tool worth checking out.
Category: Education
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 5.0 or later.
Cost: $ 24.99 
( 24.9 MB)
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Toca Boca Apps, Fluidity, Pocket Pond, My PlayHome, 300Bowling, Happy Vet, CarsinSandbox, Callaway Digital Arts’ Thomas apps, Henry’s Headlamp
Some apps that I have used are touch cats and touch dogs, angry birds (of course), toca apps and other apps that are often seen as reinforcing games. But these apps can be also be used for following directions, prepositions, describing, sentence expansion, problem solving, sequencing, and a multitude of other speech related goals.
Hmm…some non-speech apps I use to engage students are the Miko books, Jack and the Beanstalk by Mindshapes, and Furry Friend?
As an OT i use several apps with my kids: LetterSchool, iWriteWords, Do as me, How to Draw, Dexteria, Pinch Peeps, Dot to Dots Numbers & Letters, Squiggles, Graphisme, BrainWorks, Comix HD, iMazing, ChoiceWorks, Finger Maze. I have downloaded a lot of other apps to review and use as appropriate too. Using the iPad as part of therapy has been a huge motivator for most kids.
Sound Wand, MagicBoard and iMommy are a few of the non-speech related apps I used in therapy today.
There are so many that I adapt to use in my speech therapy sessions. Any “reading” app, if it can be customized, can be used for articulation. Apps such as ABC spy and Little Reader are good examples.
Toca Boca apps, Easy Bake Oven, My Playhome, Show Me, Draw and Tell, Feed the Animals
Toca Boca apps, Meet Miilie Interactive story apps, and Clicky Sticky apps, just to name a few.
I use the Toca Boca apps, and My Play Home all of the time to elicit language from my kiddos!
I use many Non-speech apps. A couple favorites not already mentioned are Draw Race, action Movie and Doodle Truck- the kids love them and I can target many of their speech goals.
I use PaperDesk for language samples. Toontastic and Dragon Naturally Speaking are others.
I like Connect 4, Doodlecast and the kids will work very hard for one game of Angry Birds.
I use Teach Me Toddler, Teach Me First Grade and Teach Me Second Grade
I use fluidity, pocket pond, even monsters get sick, fruit ninja, mickey mouse clubhouse, talking gina, talking pierre, talking roby, talking tom, etc.
I use the Toca Boca apps, My Playhome, and Shoe the Goose apps with my speech and language students.
Art maker from play school is my secret Australian app… I love using resources from different countries!
I have a variety of different apps. I have the Frosby teacher, all of the simplex spelling, all of the Toca Boca and ILuvDrawing, Halftone, Connect Four, I Like Books, Teach Me Toddle Series, Giggle Ghost, Leah and The Owl (AMAZING BOOK IF YOU DONT HAVE IT), Musical Pinwheel, Mulberry Interactive FingerPlays, Singing Fingers, Flat Stanley and all Little Learning Tots Apps… These are all amazing apps that I love to use on a regular basis. These apps all calm and teach children at the same time :)
Toca boca apps!
I love to use Make Dice for all sorts of things, such as deciding whose turn is next, making dice for the students to roll to determine whether to use targeted articulation sounds in words, phrases or sentences (and how many times to repeat it), etc. I also use the Look in My Eyes, Little Things, and Cut the Rope.
Abby preschool shape puzzle, cookie doodle, gravitarium, fluidity, first words
I use Play House, Toca Boca apps and Pocket Fish Pond with my students to encourage language.
Toca Boca, Lego Duplo Apps, and Bugs and Buttons are my favorites!
GlowDraw, any interactive book app, Angry Birds, Family Feud.
I am an SLP. I love to use cookie doodle and toca boca apps, to name a few.
I use Clicky Sticky, Angry Birds, Tozzle, Easy Bake Treats, Art Maker, and iLuv Drawing apps.
I use Puppet Pals HD… it is used to create stories/shows, using characters and backgrounds. It records your voice as you create the story, and the characters on screen can be moved to act out the different aspects. It is a great app! In the paid version you can add your own backgrounds and pictures (you can cut out a picture of yourself to add to the story). It is extremely motivational!
The toca boca apps!
I use Angry Birds, My PlayHome, and storybooks to engage my SLP kiddos!
I love to use various word game apps for my older kids to help build vocabulary. Some examples of ones that I use are Word Warp, Words Pyramid, and Five Letters.
Toca Boca apps, Scribblenauts, Clicky sticky, workday dentist, Bamba pizza, shiopping cart
I use Angry Birds as a reinforcer the last 2 minutes. I also use Squiggles, Cats, and Cookie Doodle.
We have a few of the Toca Boca Apps :)
Some of the non speech apps I use are Cookie Doodle, Elmo’s Monster Maker, Duck, duck, moose apps, ABC apps from Peapod and Toca Boca.