Apps for your tablet or smartphone
We have created this list of apps that you can download for your tablet or smartphone to help develop your child’s speech and language skills.
Simply search your App store to find them.
Some are free and some have a cost.
Apps that are free
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Animated kids songs
Nursery rhymes giving both visual and auditory feedback.
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First sounds for toddlers
Learning about different animal sounds.
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Toca kitchen monsters
A fun game giving monsters different type of foods.
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Talking Ginger, Talking Ben and Talking Tom
These applications give your own voice as feedback. It helps children build sentences and develop their vocabulary as well as give them opportunities to explore their own voice if they lack confidence in communicating.
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Autism iHelp
A range of apps for children who have autism, including: Play, WH questions, Comprehension, Colour vocabulary, Opposites, Language concepts, Same/different, Shapes and Rhyming words.
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Super Duper Publications
Let’s name things fundec – this focuses on developing vocabulary.
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Simple sentence builder
Helps children make simple sentences including a subject, verb and an object.
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Toontastic
Story telling to help children create 3-part, 5-part or complex narratives.
Apps that require payment
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I can do
A range of apps, including: Following directions, Categories, Rhyming, Starting sounds, Associations, Aerbs, Same or different, Emotions and Object identification
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Guess what? and Guess who?
Gives semantic (meaning of the word) clues to finding the word, which is useful in vocabulary development or if your child shows word finding difficulties.
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Action words
Lots of action pictures to build sentences together. Ask your child what is happening in the picture and support them to creating a logical sentence with a subject, verb and object dog.
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Lots of pictures depicting different emotions. Ask your child what the person in the picture may feel, practice matching the facial expressions yourself and try and relate it back to a time when you and your child felt those emotions.
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Super Duper
Practicing pragmatics fun deck: social skills, irregular verbs fun deck, regular past tense verbs fun deck, WH-questions at home fun deck and many more.
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Articulation station
A highly reputable app on learning how to produce sounds on their own, in words or in sentences within fun-filled activities.
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Articulate multisyllabic
Practicing articulation of multisyllabic words.
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Word vault
An all-encompassing tool for parents, teachers and professionals to teach articulation, understanding and spoken language, phonology, and social skills.