Language Apps Linky Party

Jenna at Speech Room News has another great linky party happening right now for favorite language apps (http://speechroomnews.blogspot.com/2013/10/love-it-list-it-language-apps.html).

Here are the three I use the most in my speech room:
1. Language Forest by Synapse apps at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/language-forest/id477838255?mt=8

It has decks for:

Associations - guess my job, words that go together
Categories - animal habitats, animal types, food groups, transportation, “name the category”
Describing - Texture
Emotions
Functions
Guess The Word
If...Then Statements
Naming - colors, shapes, transportation
Root Words
Synonyms
Wh Questions - who, what, when, where, why, and how

And, you can add your own decks, too!

2. The Bag Game 

 

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bag-game/id499757601?mt=8

It addresses: Categorization, verbal description skills, question-asking skills, deductive reasoning skills, other early reasoning skills; such as, same/different and salience by using the graphics alone, and short term auditory memory skills .

3. Question Sleuth app

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/question-sleuth/id563783795?mt=8

Played like the game Secret Square which is out of print.  You can chose pictures that belong in categories and hide a star under one picture in a group of anywhere from 6 to 42 pictures.  Great for using attributes to describe the pictures, comparing pictures, categorizing, etc.

Have you used any of these apps in your therapy sessions?