Description:This app turns your iPad into a virtual and interactive tea party. Invite your friends, both real and stuffed to participate in this fun activity. Students begin engaging with the app by setting the table: choosing a tablecloth, plates and cups. Once, the table is set, students may choose his/her favourite sweets and serve tea and lemonade by pouring it into cup. Music plays quietly in the background and the radio station can be changed. Light candles to set a relaxing mood. Eat cookies and drink with the touch of a finger. Spills may also happen if you're not careful. But not to worry, you can also clean up your mess using a tissue (this is also available on your iPad table setting). When you're finished, it's time to wash the dishes. This video will give you an idea of how this app works:
Therapy Use:Toca Tea Party is an app that provides many opportunities to target articulation, fluency, language and pragmatics.
Articulation: You can choose to work on individual targets or use this app for sound generalization/carryover. Choose words that correspond with target sounds you might be working on (e.g., for /k/, "cookie", "cake", "cup", "candle", "coffee", "carrot cake")
Fluency: Work on individual fluency targets or facilitate carryover/generalization (e.g., easy onset, light contacts, phrasing, rate)
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Expressive & Receptive Language: Use the app to work on simple requests (e.g., "I want a cookie.", "I want lemonade.", "I want pie."), questions (e.g., "What would you like to eat/drink?", " Who wants pie?", "Would you like more?", "Are you finished?", "Do you want lemonade?", "Could I have more drink?" ). In addition, target language skills such as giving and following directions (e.g., "Put the cake on the green plate", "Put the star cookie on the plate next to the tea cup."), spatial concepts (e.g., on, beside, next to, top, bottom, right, left).
Social Skills/Pragmatics: Use it to work on skills such as turn-taking, eye contact and establishing joint attention.
You could extend this activity to a table-top using a tea party play set.
Toca Boca has a lot of great apps that can be incorporated very nicely in S-LP practice.
App Benefits/Likes:
Fun, interactive and engaging.
Provides many opportunities to work on speech-language targets across a variety of treatment domains (e.g., language, fluency, articulation, pragmatics), as listed above.
App Summary
Skill(s) Targeted Articulation & Phonology (clinician chooses appropriate target words)
Fluency
Expressive & Receptive Language
Social Skills/Pragmatics
Age/Grade Levels TargetedToddler
Preschool
Kindergarten
Early Elementary (Grades 1 – 3)
How to ActivateIsolated finger point
Hold and drag
Type of DeviceiPad only
Cost $2.99 (at time of review)
Hyperlink
(Source: http://www.therapyapp411.com/)
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