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The alphabetic principle – the idea that letters and letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken language.

What is Phonics?
Phonics instruction helps children learn the relationships between the letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language.

What is Phonemic Awareness?
This is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the sounds that make up spoken words.

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Reading Fluency is the ability to read a text accurately, quickly, and with expression. Reading fluency is important because it provides a bridge between word recognition and comprehension.

When fluent readers read silently, they recognize words automatically. They group words quickly to help them gain meaning from what they read. Fluent readers read aloud effortlessly and with expression. Their reading sounds natural, as if they are speaking.

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Vocabulary refers to the words we must understand to communicate effectively. Educators often consider four types of vocabulary: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Vocabulary plays a fundamental role in the reading process and is critical to reading comprehension. Children learn the meanings of most words indirectly, through everyday experiences with oral and written language. Other words are learned through carefully designed instruction. Beginning readers must use the words they hear orally to make sense of the words they see in print.

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Reading comprehension is an intentional, active, interactive process that occurs before, during and after a person reads a particular piece of writing.

In addition to being able to understand each distinct word in a text, being able to put them together to develop an overall conception of what it is trying to say is Text Comprehension.

Comprehension depends, firstly, on a large, working vocabulary, substantial background knowledge and well-developed comprehension strategies.

Effective instruction will help the reader actively relate his or her own knowledge or experience to the ideas written in the text, and then remember the ideas that he or she has come to understand.

Comprehension is enhanced when teachers make sure students understand what they are reading by asking questions and encouraging student questions and discussions.

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Children on the Autism Spectrum develops phonemic awareness at a slower rate than children their age.

Children on the Spectrum have short attention spans. Therefore, it takes more planning to include activities that interests them, to keep them on-task so they can learn phonics and develop phonemic awareness.

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About 65% of children on the Autism Spectrum are know to have hyperlexia, which is an intense preoccupation with numbers and letters. This poses a significant gap between word-level decoding and comprehension.

Even though they are fluent readers, they have difficulty with reading comprehension.

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Many students with autism spectrum disorder demonstrate difficulties in reading and text comprehension. These difficulties may be attributed to deficits in Theory of Mind, Weak Central Coherence, and Executive Functioning.

Individuals with ASDs tend to focus on single words or details rather than understanding the broader meaning of a story. This style may strengthen their word recognition but interferes with reading comprehension.

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Some children with ASD are non-verbal therefore this will a barrier to fluency when reading.

Research suggests that fluency is related to comprehension in that if you are spending less effort pronouncing individual words you will be more likely to understand what you are reading.

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Phonemic awareness, systematic sequential phonics, and common sight words in conjunction with audiovisual interactivity has proven effective in teaching emergent readers, hence its emphasis on the Starfall App. Starfall activities are research-based and align with Individual and Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics.

It is useful to help students with autism build phonemic awareness, and it being audiovisual and interactive will help with capturing their attention while they learn.

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Starfall Education: Kids Games, Movies, Books & Music for K-5 and above

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At Starfall, children have fun while they learn - specializing in reading, phonics & math - educational games, movies, books, songs, and more for children K-5 and above.

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This app is designed to ask questions about the text being read to check and improve comprehension. Also, it helps children work on decoding and fluency, which are crucial reading skills.

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Unlock Your Child's Reading Potential Readability is the only smart Reading & Comprehension Learning App your child can use anytime, anywhere. By clicking the button you agree to the Readability Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and, Payment Policy. THE PERSONALIZED TRAINING OF A TUTOR FOR A FRACTION OF THE COST!

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Story Builder offers a rich and fun environment for improving the ability to create a narrative. It was designed to help children accomplish the following educational goals: 1) Improve paragraph formation; 2) Improve integration of ideas; and 3) Improve higher level abstractions by inference.

This is useful because it provides extensive use of audio clips that promotes improved auditory processing for special needs children with autism spectrum disorders or sensory processing disorders.

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Winner - Best reading app of 2011 by the Huffington Post. Own as an individual app or as part of our MES Speech Therapy Bundle.

Story Builder is designed to help children accomplish the following educational goals: 1) Improve paragraph formation; 2) Improve integration of ideas; and 3) Improve higher level abstractions by inference. Extensive use of audio clips promotes improved auditory processing for special needs children with autism spectrum disorders or sensory processing disorders.

Story Builder offers a rich and fun environment for improving the ability to create a narrative.

FEATURES
-Record feature allows students to record narrative in their own voice
-3 levels of play
-Simple and intuitive interface to record narrative
-Recorded answers are stitched together to create complete narrative
-Stories can be archived for later play
-Each student gets their own archive page
-Stories can be emailed
-50 distinct story lines to create narrative from
-Import photos from camera or library
-500 audio clips of questions to guide narrative
-Optional question text and answer introduction reinforcement

LANGUAGES
- English

REQUIREMENTS
- Compatible with iPad
- Requires iOS 4.2 software update

StoryBuilder is part of "The Builder Series" of award winning education apps. Mobile Education Store has won over 40 app awards and has been named educational developer of the year in 2011 and 2012.

Mobile Education Tools is a member of Moms with Apps, a collaborative group of family-friendly developers seeking to promote quality apps for kids and families.
Recommended Ages: 6-10, 10+
Categories: Special Needs

Version 2.2.0

Performance Improvements and Bug Fixes

Good app for generating sentences and stories

This is a very good app for using with elementary aged students who need to work on generating sentences or stories and answering questions. The student is able to record their voice so that they can then listen to their own sentences and discuss their performance. Level 1 and 2 allow the student to record a one sentence response to a clip art photo question. Level 3 allows the student to answer 4 questions about the picture. They can then play the four sentences back as a story. There are a lot of ways this app can be used by teachers and therapists. It can easily be used with general education students as well as students with varying disabilities. This app is definitely worth the money.

Heather
Elementary SLP
Member of A4CWSN Appvisory Board

Great app for working on improving verbal expression

I am the founder of Innovative Speech Therapy and specialize in empowering families and professionals with the knowledge and strategies to use affordable technologies to help kids and adults who have a wide range of communication challenges. I am very impressed with this app and the responsiveness of the company to my suggestions for improvements. It is truly unique. It took me a few tries to figure out what all the options were and when I would use them. Users really need to take the time to read the text displayed after the info button is pressed to realize the full potential of this app.

In my practice I use this app to work toward a wide variety of goals. It's great for practicing creating sentences and organizing verbal narrative. I also use it to help others improve articulation, fluency, voice, and word retrieval. I am glad that there are options to turn on and off the initial voice with each new picture- some people find it distracting. The recording quality is fantastic and the process is easy. I like being able to save the recordings to document progress. The pictures are colorful and engaging. This app is a great way to work at the sentence and conversational levels and to promote carryover with both kids and adults who benefit from recording themselves and then immediately listening to their speech. Kids find it motivating to send their completed stories over email. It's a great value for only $3.99!

Great app for kids of all ages

This app is entertaining, interesting, and a great learning experience (without the kids even noticing). It teaches imagination, creativity, communication, sentence structure, and listening.
My 4 year old is developmentally delayed and this app allowed her to create her own story step by step. It did require adult assistance. The question prompts were great, the recording was easy, and the play back is fabulous.
My 8 year old also created his own stories. He was able to be more descriptive making the app fun or him. He required no adult assistance though I was there because I wanted to hear his story.
You are able to set up different accounts for each kid and save their own story. I love that the story is in there own voice. That I can create a story today then months later to see the growth of the child. It is easy to use and fun.
There are not many apps both my kids can play (and enjoy). This is an excellent app.

The only thing I would change is the childs log. I wish the kid could just click on their name when it is entered. Also the setting area should be allowed to add a lock to keep the kids from changing the settings.

Beth Comella
APPvisory Board
Parent

The developer, Mobile Education Store LLC, indicated that the app's privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Information

Seller

Mobile Education Store LLC

Compatibility

iPad

Requires iPadOS 12.1 or later.

Mac

Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip.

Family Sharing

With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.

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‎Winner - Best reading app of 2011 by the Huffington Post. Own as an individual app or as part of our MES Speech Therapy Bundle. Story Builder is designed to help children accomplish the following educational goals: 1) Improve paragraph formation; 2) Improve integration of ideas; and 3) Improve hig...

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This is a simple way to create talking photo albums and books on an iPad, using pictures from a child's environment, the sound of the parent's voice or even their own.

This is important to help a child with fluency in reading, because having their personal information included makes the stories more interesting and motivate them to want to read.

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This App matches phonic sounds with letters, through colorful illustrations, pictures and accurate pronunciation, while playing the age old game of I Spy.

It provides a fun and highly interactive way to help children learn to recognize letters and their phonic sounds.

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iSpy Phonics helps children learn the first building blocks of reading- fast.

This app enables children to match phonic sounds with letters, through colorful illustrations, pictures and accurate pronunciation, all whilst playing the age old game of I Spy. It provides a fun and highly interactive way to help children learn to recognize letters and their phonic sound - the first stage in reading.

Kids love adding their own pictures and voice to the app, making it a fun game you can play with them and enabling them to change the content as they progress. Ask your child what else they "Spy" that starts with a sound and reward them by helping them to take a photo and record their own voice saying it. Kids have never had so much fun whilst learning. You can relax as the app is childproofed, so you can restore all the original images and sound files at the touch of a button.

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iPip iPhone App helping children communicate

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iSpy Phonics helps children learn the first building blocks of reading- fast. This app enables children to match phonic sounds with letters, through colorful illustrations, pictures and accurate pronunciation, all whilst playing the age old game of I Spy.

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This App teaches children letter writing and word games teach children how to blend letter sounds to make words.

It is useful because the content is created for the child’s level, and allows them to hear letter sounds in a word.

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Your child could be reading their first storybook in just 10 weeks Our stats show that most children aged 4+ who use PocketPhonics Stories for 15 minutes per day, read their first storybook within just 10 weeks. This award-winning app teaches phonics and handwriting whilst guiding children through the literacy journey.

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This App offers free Interactive children's books that includes text and audio, and reads itself to the listener.   Kids can enjoy these books on their own or it can be read to them.

This will be useful to help children to listen to how a fluent reader should sound, as it is being modelled. Also this helps them to hear and see new words that they can add to their vocabulary, and the more they see this type of activity, the better they will become at being able to read and acquire fluency.

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Free Interactive Childrens Books for the new generation! Free books that read itself to your little ones! Yes the books include text and audio. We publish a new book every 2 weeks. Kids can enjoy these books on their own or you can read to them. When we publish new books they will appear automatically in the App. All books we publish are picture books with audio. We welcome your valuable comments and suggests. Please post your comments and suggestions, play games, puzzles and download coloring pages at facebook.com/iStoryBooks. Type of books include childrens books, story books, bedtime stories, classic stories, folk stories, toddler books, preschool books, nursery school books, kindergarten books, fairy tales and picture books with accompanying audio of the text in each page. Some of our popular books include: Fairy Tales * Cinderella, the classic story about a beautiful girl named Cinderella who always hoped for the best even during hard times and eventually, her wishes come true! * Snow White, the story of a princess who was as beautiful on the inside as she was on the outside. * Cenicienta, the spanish (espanol) version our most popular book Cinderella. Animal Story Books: * The Blue Fox * The Crow the Doves and the Mouse * The Mean Lion and the Smart Rabbit * The Crow, the Doves and the Mouse * Three Little Pigs Folk Stories * Stone Soup * Little Red Hen * Little Red Riding Hood Educational Books * A to Z Animals, A fun book to learn alphabets with pictures of animals. * A to Z Fruits and Vegetables - Junior/Preschool/Yummy Riddles - A set of three books to learn alphabets with pictures of fruits and vegetables. * The World of Trucks - Big and Small - A fun book with pictures and engine sounds of Trucks of various sizes and shapes. Includes Fire Truck with siren and horn, Crane Truck, Garbage Truck, Tow Truck, Picukup Truck, Dump Truck, Road Train etc. * The World of Dinosaurs - Big and Small

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Free Interactive Childrens Books for the new generation! Free books that read itself to your little ones! Yes the books include text and audio. We publish a new book every 2 weeks. Kids can enjoy these books on their own or you can read to them.

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Kidspiration is designed to help children to organize their thoughts through the use of visual maps, written outlines, word webs, and various other formats.  These tools are especially helpful for children with Autism for brainstorming and organizing ideas prior to sitting down to write. Kidspiration Connects visual thought with written expression. It uses "Picture View" to visually organize a child's thoughts, then the program immediately transfers the images into an outline format with corresponding text, in "Writing View."

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All membership plans come with full access to our entire suite of tools learning guides, and resources. Here are a few of the ones we think you'll like the most:

Personalized learning profiles for up to 5 children.

Access to our complete library of technology learning guides.

A personalized stream of advice, articles, and recommendations.

And of course, lots, lots more...

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Kidspiration is a mind mapping and information organizing software designed specially for K-5 students. Users can brainstorm and organize their thoughts in a visual map, create a written outline from this design, or depict math problems using visual display tools.

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This App can be used by children with Autism to create their own story book using their images, ideas and creativity. While doing research to create their book, they can learn new vocabulary.

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Book Creator - Love Learning - Book Creator app

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Teachers love it. Students love it. Book Creator is the simplest, most inclusive way to create content in the classroom.

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Speechkids is an educational app with versatile content for improving the vocabulary of kids.

Autism affected kids can use Speech kids for developing speech & learning with fun. Other topics like alphabets, animals, fruits, colors, numbers help kids to learn at any time.

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Helpful for improving the vocabulary and speech of kids below age 3.

It is a free app where Images of basic english building blocks are shown on screen
and by touching them , its name and description is pronounced.

Speaks the names when you touch on the icon making your little one to remember APPLE , PARROT ,
1. Alphabets - Learn ABCD with pronunciation, Letters for little ones.
2. Animals - learns Lion and more learn spelling with Phonics
3. Fruits - A for Apple, B for Banana in Edu app for Babies under age
4 .Musical songs for Little ones
5. Vegetables - Educational Knowledge for your Little One's
6. Colors - Different Colors , teach English words.
7. Numbers - 123 teach counting.
8. Birds - Remember Quiz under age 5.
9. Seven Days of the week - Sunday, Monday to improve kids general knowledge.
10. Twelve Months of an year - January, February -books
11. Vehicles Tractor, aeroplane, Truck, Car, Helicopter, Train, Bike, Cycle, Evacuator.

A helpful educational app which focuses on kids development in areas of speech,
english language learning and vocabulary.

Also for kids learning with music , we have included some popular rhymes for nursery going kids or daycare kids to keep them entertained.

It's a free educational app for kids and we are pretty sure they will love it and would surely
Learn with Fun.

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Speech Kids - Teach with Images - Apps on Google Play

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Helpful for improving the vocabulary and speech of kids below age 3. It is a free app where Images of basic english building blocks are shown on screen and by touching them , its name and description is pronounced. Speaks the names when you touch on the icon making your little one to remember APPLE , PARROT , 1.

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Speech therapy follows gaming experience based on the natural speech development stages of a child. The app is an expert solution from speech therapists for launching speech pace in autistic kids.

It includes many activities for phonics, the tempo of speech, repetition tasks & more.

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Hello, dear parent, nanny, speech therapist!
This game is a unique technique based on the natural stages of the child's speech development. Experts in speech therapy and pedagogy put their hearts into this game, and their experience will help your kid to learn some speech skills necessary for speech launch.

- Developed by an experienced speech therapist, specializing in launching speech in non-verbal children
- Successfully tested
- Invokes interest for active speech in small kids
- Includes tasks for phonemic awareness, tempo and rhythm of speech, vocalization skills, repetition of syllables, onomatopoeia and words, the construction of the first phrases.
- Contains detailed instructions for parents and teachers in each section
- Based on the principle of gradual complication of speech material
- Designed for speech development of children from 18 months
- Suitable both for kids with regular speech development as well as speech disorders
- Includes logorithmics that can be used as a standalone tool
- Has a polysensory effect, activating acoustic, visual, and kinesthetic analyzers

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Speech therapy for kids - Apps on Google Play

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Hello, dear parent, nanny, speech therapist! This game is a unique technique based on the natural stages of the child's speech development. Experts in speech therapy and pedagogy put their hearts into this game, and their experience will help your kid to learn some speech skills necessary for speech launch.

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This site provides a lot of resources and books that children with Autism Spectrum Disorder can read to increase their vocabulary. It has books for different reading levels, so the child can work at their present level and move on as they increase their vocabulary.

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Explore reading basics as well as the key role of background knowledge and motivation in becoming a lifelong reader and learner. Watch our PBS Launching Young Readers series and try our self-paced Reading 101 course to deepen your understanding.