Articulate It! by Smarty Ears – Review & Giveaway

Reviewed by Mary Articulate It! is part of the range of Speech therapy apps from Smarty Ears, a company founded by Speech Language Pathologist Barbara Fernandes. It is a universal app and was reviewed on the iPad 2. The app includes a video tutorial, which is worth watching to get an overview of how the [...]

Write to Read – WriteReader by Janus Madsen – Review and Giveaway

What we love… An easy to use and kid-friendly writing tool that really motivates children to write and read better. What we’d love to see… Optional edit lock, parental lock on Facebook sharing and text highlighting. Summary Learning to read by writing is a brilliant idea that is both fun and effective. WriteReader is the [...]

Beck and Bo – Review & Giveaway

What we love… A unique fun, educational app. Children can explore, build, have fun and learn at the same time. The graphics are fun and engaging. What we’d love to see… Option to have the words displayed in uppercase  or lowercase. Summary This is a wonderful app for toddlers and pre-schoolers, and unlike any other [...]

Penelope the Purple Pirate from Pic Pocket Books – Today’s Featured Free App

What are Featured Free Apps? The iMums showcase a quality free app that we have installed, tested and recommend. Featured Free Apps are not lite versions, they are full versions that are free for a limited time only so you’ll need to be quick to grab them at the reduced price. Be sure to sign [...]

The iMums’ Go Mini 4! Win an iPad Mini + Cygnett Enigma Case

  The iMums are very pleased announce The iMums Go Mini 4 – our 4th iPad Mini giveaway of 2013 (and our 17th overall). The iMums is a global website with mums from all over the world and for this giveaway we have a global group of sponsors. Our sponsors are Everythink (from Israel), Human [...]

Moms With Apps – App Friday 05/10/2013

Happy Mother’s Day from The iMums!  We hope you will enjoy spending time with your families this weekend. App PARTY for Better Hearing and Speech Month, 5pm Pacific/ 8pm eastern Fri May10th. Our Let’s Talk Speech and Hearing Event will continue Daily until May 14th with App Sales, Giveaways, Articles and SLP Q and As [...]

KGMaths by FunBasket- Review

    What we love… Covers six concepts, different levels within each section What we’d love to see… Data collection, removal of Facebook like button, more features to engage children Summary if you are looking for a very simple maths app this fits the bill, but there are others on the market that have more [...]

More Fun With Directions by Hamaguchi Apps – Review & Giveaway

Reviewed by Mary More Fun With Directions is the sequel to Fun With Directions from California based app developer Hamaguchi apps. It was developed by pediatric SLP Patti Hamaguchi to work on listening skills, following directions, basic concepts, early reading and auditory processing. The Superstar Direction can also be used to work on expressive language [...]

Five Little Monkey’s Jumping on the Bed by Loeschware – Review

What we love… Colorful illustrations; original music and interactivity within the app What we’d love to see… Removal of the direct iTunes link from the main screen – or at least it made into a double tap, a way to “revisit” the monkey’s at the end of the app with their bandages on Summary Great [...]

Common Core Early Language Screener by Smarty Ears – Review & Giveaway

What we love… bright colors, engages children and provides standardized testing for typically and non-typically developing children What we’d love to see… Removal of multiple reports – at times we noticed it would save a report multiple times Summary The CCELS is a good app for determining if a child needs to be screened further [...]