4 Free Apps for Motor Speech Practice

 

*Before considering the use of applications for practice, check out my blog on Healthy Screen Time. 

Below I have outlined four of my favorite FREE apps I find helpful for use with children who show signs of CAS, or have motor planning deficits.

I highlight the ways that a parent or Speech Language Pathologist can use these to enhance your child’s speech opportunities at home, or within your Speech Therapy sessions, as a tool for targeting motor planning goals. I hope you find them helpful!

 
Screenshot of a helpful speech therapy app called Apraxia Therapy Lite to help parents or Speech Therapists, as a tool to use with their children when working on their speech therapy goals, target sounds, or target words within different contexts

1. Apraxia Therapy Lite

⇨ Simple to complex syllable practice within 3 categories of practice including: sequences, phrases, and long words

⇨ Uses functional words and phrases common in everyday routines such as greetings and days of the week

⇨ Real-life video examples of mouth movements for each target  

⇨ Offers phases for each target, to track the amount of support needed including listen, tap, together, fade out, alone 

⇨ Offers self rating (poor, ok, great) and documenting your progressing through self reports

A screenshot of an application for Speech Therapists and parents to use with their child working on Speech Therapy sound targets using different pictures and themes within an engaging application on an iPhone or iPad, to help them speak more clearly

2. SmallTalk Letters,Number,Color 

⇨ Great visual support in addition to mirrors or clinician models

⇨ Real-life video examples of mouth movements

⇨ Use as stimuli for simple and complex consonant-vowel sequences

⇨ Target identification of letter names/sounds and graphemes for phonemic awareness activities

A screenshot of an application for use on iPads or iPhones, called SmallTalk Phonemes, for parents or Speech Language Pathologists to use with their child working on Speech Therapy targets, motor planning speech delays, or speech sound delays

3. SmallTalk Phonemes - Lingraphica

⇨ Videos of sounds produced for almost all phonemes and vowel shapes (except some R shapes)

⇨ Great visual support in addition to mirrors or clinician models

⇨ Real-life video examples of mouth movements

⇨ Use as stimuli for simple and complex consonant-vowel sequences

A screenshot of a speech therapy app called SmallTalk Consonant Blends, for Speech Therapists and parents of children with speech delays to use for practicing speech sounds and words at home or within Speech Therapy sessions

4. SmallTalk Consonant Blends

⇨ Videos of sounds produced for Most Standard AND final consonant blends 

⇨ Great visual support in addition to mirrors or clinician models

⇨ Real-life video examples of mouth movements

⇨ Use as stimuli for simple and complex consonant-vowel sequences

 

Please note, the above applications are available on most iPad tablets. They have not been tested on Android devices. 

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