Listen Up Bear is fun app based on the classic kids tune ''The Bear Went Over the Mountain'' but in this version it is not to see what he can see but instead to hear what he can hear! The app itself is designed by a speech-language pathologist from Canada but who is currently practicing in Mexico. The premise of the app is fairly simply you wake ...

Now that June has arrived and summer is upon us, many of our speech and language students may have changes in their services due to summer staff changes, time off from school and family vacations that may interfere with services, etc.  If your child is in a special education preschool program, services most likely will continue through the ...

I am so excited about the Apple Worldwide Development Conference (WWDC), taking place June 10-14 in San Francisco! Why? As an educational technology consultant and pediatric speech-language pathologist specializing in iPad apps and autism, people frequently ask me why I am so tech-oriented, especially toward Apple products. New upgrades to ...

When speech-language pathologists handle a caseload of people with articulation disorders, they should be conscious of their own speaking patterns, the dialect of their clients, as well as the sociolinguistic variations of their clients' communities. As a person from a multiracial background and a culturally and linguistically diverse community ...

Board and Tokens is a free token board app by Maiz Apps. You can utilize this app for behavior, motivation or incorporate it as a visual for a therapy task. You are able to save a child's profile, change the theme of the board, take a picture of the reward, and choose from 1-24 tokens to be available during the task.There are also ...

It has been called one of the best children's novels of all times, and anyone who has read it will most likely agree. ''Charlotte's Web'' by E.B. White, for those few who don't know, is a story of an unlikely friendship between a spider and a pig. The spider, Charlotte, writes flattering adjectives about the pig, Wilbur, in the web above his ...

This past Thursday, Friday, and Saturday I was lucky enough to attend my state's annual convention. I was even luckier that it was held only 20 minutes away from where I live!  But the most fortunate part of the whole thing (other than getting approved for the professional leave time from work) was attending numerous excellent, relevant ...

 Guess and Know is a fun Jeopardy like game for your iPad. Any Jeopardy like game of course  comes with tons of potential for speech and language therapy.  The app allows for three rounds of play with six categories per round and up to five questions per category. The categories of obviously limitless and can be used to target ...

As I began my search for helpful information regarding cerebral palsy and how it affects feeding and oral motor function, much of what I found included various cases that have been conducted on this very topic. Oral motor therapy has become quite controversial in our field of speech therapy over the past 10-15 years; therefore some of the ...

This week I am continuing my look at the condition of Cerebral Palsy (CP). Last week's post discussed some of the basic facts surrounding the condition and the overall affect CP can have on an individual. This week I am narrowing the focus and will look at how speech therapy can benefit a child who has been diagnosed with CP. According to the ...