This app, like their others allows you to alter the settings to meet the needs of your students. One of my favorite settings is the "background noise." This is GREAT for students with auditory processing difficulties. You can add/remove as well as alter the volume!
This app allows you to add students which stores them into the app itself. This is great for progress monitoring. Adding a student is really quick and easy and only takes a few seconds. I love that you can work with multiple students at a time and track each one's progress separately. You can also make the app session individualized as well.
Once you pick a student. you can decide where you want to go in the real life contexts. The tasks of this app easily relates to functional community situations. There are three stores: Jin's Jewels, Pia's Pizza, and Sweet Shop.
Once you decide where you are going, you can decide the level of the directions that will be presented.
Students can have fun completing the tasks presented. You can control the pace by clicking "next" when you are ready. I like that students can click the "sound" button to hear the directives themselves. I always try to teach my students to be their own advocates, I love that this app allows them to use that skill.
Jin's Jewels:
You can pick the level:
Students will follow the directions to give the different jewels to the box.
Pia's Pizza:
Your students will LOVE this one! Pick the level:
Then students can make the pizza by following the directions provided! So motivating!
Sweet Shop:
Pick the level:
Students will move the named candy items to the counter to complete the directions presented.
If you selected to have students earn a game, then after a selected amount of correct responses (I like 5 which is the default setting) students will get to play a game that is like Pac-Man. With this game, they again will have to follow the directions! How motivating!
At any time, you can select to end the activity (you can switch to a different level/store/or just finish. At this point you can view reports, print, and/or email.
You can also view the reports from the main page. Here all of the reports of all students and all activities are logged. You can easily find them for each student, and find the specific scores by activity or by date. I love this because it gives me so many ways of tracking and finding things.
What do I love about this app:
- Functional vocabulary
- The directions are relevant to the community and what students or even adults may experience in the world (shopping and working at the various stores/restaurants).
- The themes are motivating
- Also teaches functional vocabulary
- Can use with multiple students, individualized, and so many different levels to chose from
- Data collection and progress monitoring
- You can select the pace, background noise, and so many other settings
- Students can be motivated by the game to pay attention and work hard
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I love that this app uses real life situations.
ReplyDeleteI like the functionality of the app. Real life situations that are sometimes difficult to recreate in the therapy room. Thanks =)
ReplyDeletethis app sounds AMAZING and is perfect for the students on my caseload. I a working with auditory-oral hearing impaired students in grades 3-5 and being able to monitor the level of background noise while practicing speech and language skills is a GREAT feature!
ReplyDeleteI love the different levels
ReplyDeleteI love so much about this app, but honestly what I love most about it is that it keeps the data for me. :)
ReplyDeleteHow functional it is in that is uses real life situations with everyday vocabulary! :) Thank you for the giveaway opportunity!
ReplyDeleteLooks like a great app, cannot wait to try it out!
ReplyDeleteI love how functional it is! Great for life skills!
ReplyDeleteI love that every aspect of this app, even the game for reinforcement, targets following directions. Students will get a lot of practice, but have fun at the same time!
ReplyDeleteI am always looking for materials to work on memory skills. This would be an awesome addition to my collection!
ReplyDeleteThis would be a great app for my students who are CI users
ReplyDeleteI like the multiple player feature.
ReplyDeleteI like that the tasks are presented within fun, engaging activities! Also love the reinforcement game!
ReplyDeleteI love the functional, real life situations this app provides! This is exactly the kind of thing I am working on with my two classrooms of children with intellectual disabilities, but it would also be great for the rest of my caseload!
ReplyDeleteI like the multiplayer function and the application of functional vocabulary. I wonder, though, what age ranges this app would appeal to? I wish there was more for middle school.
ReplyDeleteMultiple student use and data collection are becoming essential to many of my app purchases...this one has both!
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