What's the Pic Artic? App.

What's the Pic Articulation is a brand new app from Luke of HomeSpeechHome, PLLC that I know you will want to use in your therapy.

I don't often write reviews of apps, but this is one I felt you needed to hear about it.

From the perspective of the SLP here is what I love about this app:

1- It is easy to set up your players and their targets.  Just click on your choices.

2- It is sound activated.  When the child names the picture/says the word it will activate a star. The random number of stars shown is the number of times the child is required to say the word.

3- There are buttons for the SLP or instructor/parent to judge the accuracy of the sound produced as correct or incorrect and time for the correction if needed.

4- You can have up to 6 students playing the game together.

5- Great selection of stimulus targets for all the early and later developing sounds (including J and ZH), blends, and even each individual vowel controlled R!

6- Randomized delivery of the stimulus words from the sound chosen.

7- Ability to turn off the sound activation.  Sound activation is a double edged sword.

8- Progress report.  You can select to have a written report of the child's responses for the day and there is a place to write a note about the progress. Then you can even email it to yourself or a parent if you have permission to send data that way.

9- Price point is fantastic!  I can not believe you can get all this for less than $5!


The pros for this app far outweigh the cons, but there were a couple of things that I wasn't particularly happy about:

1- The sound activation is just that...it activated at any sound.  But my biggest annoyance is that when my student said a 2 syllable word slowly it would credit him with 2 stars for the one word.  Of course, that is easily eliminated by simply turning off the sound activation.

2- Personally I would like the word written below the stimulus picture and have it bolder, but that is a personal preference.

So, as you can see, this product has some really great features and I can see this being an app you would use often when working with your artic students or as a progress monitoring tool.

Here is a demo of the app for your convenience.
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