Speech and Language Academy is now available
I have been cocooned for the best part of 2021, developing and improving my latest and best product I have
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What is the role of members of an ARD meeting during a disagreement between parties?
For years you have read my blog posts as a professional. Today, I am re-starting my writing process with so
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Creating visual support with Smarty Symbols
April is Autism Awareness month and when I think of a subject that we can explore a little more to
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GeekSLP TV #37: Five Apps to Screen and Assess Articulation and Language
Click on the link below to watch this episode of GeekSLP TV:
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TIPS FOR TEACHING PREPOSITIONS TO YOUNG LEARNERS
Prepositions can be one of the most confusing parts of speech to learn. They don’t fit into the normal rules
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Apps for Bilingual Clinicians in Texas: Challenges and Resources
Texas is one of many states that continues to experience an influx of new residents. As changes to the state
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Favorite apps for teaching feelings and emotions
Children with autism often have difficulty with reading emotional expressions of others. Identifying and appropriately expressing emotions are among some
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Smarty Symbols brings multi-character representation to visual support materials
How cool would it be to have the same symbol being represented by multiple characters? Very nice, right? Smarty Symbols
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Efficient Caseload Management Across Apps
Accountability for students’ progress has always been an important part of clinical practice for speech-language pathologists. Prior to the use
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Using the iPad to Assess Articulation & Phonology Skills at the Sentence level
Back in 2010 I had created my favorite iPad application. Even after creating over sixty iOS apps, the Sunny Articulation
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Ten FREE apps for Speech-Language Pathologists
The universe of paid and free apps for speech-language pathologists grows daily. Some are original, innovative or useful and others
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Using Custom Boards for iPad to create printable materials
Custom Boards is one of those apps that many teachers, speech therapists and parents wish it existed, and it does,
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Language & Vocabulary on Sims FreePlay for iPad
On the Episode #7 of GeekSLP TV recorded in 2010, I talked about my favorite computer game for promoting language
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A closer quick look at six articulation & phonology apps
I have been involved in developing speech therapy and educational apps for nearly 4 years now. I have been
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Exploring crafting apps for your speech therapy sessions
It is no secret, I have never been a crafty person. During my days in graduate school I struggled
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GeekSLP TV #33: How to use and set up guided access on iOS 6.0
Apple never stops impressing me with their always evolving nature. This time, one of the most anticipated features for the
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GeekSLP TV #32: Apps targeting Adults with Aphasia
On this episode, I have decided to focus on a few apps I know that target skills which have been
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GeekSLP Tv #31: iPhone 5, Language Adventures, Tense Builder Visual Attention & more
This Summer has been a busy summer for me and all developers I know. While you were enjoying your vacation,
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Assessing Speech and Language Skills using the iPad
It is time to go back to school and as new kids arrive to your school, start school, or move
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If one AAC device cannot fit all, why would one AAC app fit all?
Many years ago, when I got involved with assistive technology at Temple University’s Assistive Technology institute, the one thing I
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Can all of us as professionals please stop saying that the iPad created the digital AAC?
I have been meaning to write this blog post for such a long time, and with every new interview
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GeekSLP Tv #29: iPad for basic communication skills & Language Adventures Demo
I am back in Texas from my presentation at the MSHA convention ( Thanks MSHA for the invitation). I had
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GeekSLP TV #25: Etch A Sketch, fixing my mistakes and One Voice AAC App demo.
On the episode 25 lots of things to talk! First I want to say how excited I am about my
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GeekSLP Tv #24: Sunny Articulation Phonology Test App Demo
On today’s episode I have devices to do a video demo of version 3.1 of the Sunny Articulation Phonology Test
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Free GeekSLP 2.0 App is now available for iPhone, iPod touch & iPad
I am so excited about this I can barely contain myself. Apple has been very nice to me this week!
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Custom Boards: Print and share communication boards, schedules & activities.
Hello world! Today I bring good news… my new app, Custom Boards is now available on the app store. Over
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House of Learning for iPad: Prepositions, Vocabulary & following…
One more app developed by Smarty Ears Apps: now an interactive app with scenes and characters that targets vocabulary, prepositions
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Conversation Builder: Working on Pragmatics on your iPad
Conversation Builder was released in April of 2011 and it has received great reviews not only on the iTunes store
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Geek SLP Tv #19: Comprehension Therappy App Demo
On this episode of Geek SLP TV, I did a demo of an app for adults with aphasia called: Comprehension
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GeekSLP TV #18: iPad 2 video Mirroring, Verbally & Speech Trainer App Demo
On GeekSLP TV #18,I talk about using video mirroring on iPad 2, and do a demo of two apps: Verbally
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GeekSLP TV # 17: Preposition Remix & Creating Folders on your iPad
On today’s episode we will teach how to keep your apps organized into different folders and demo the app preposition
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iPhone, iPod & iPad apps for SLPs list by GeekSLP
A while back I had created this list of apps for speech therapists that is now available on Scribed for
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Sunny Articulation Test & the GFTA-2 : Working hand in hand.
As a speech-language pathologist, I cannot even start counting the number of hours I spent analyzing the words produced by
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Being different: Brazilian campaign against prejudice of children with special needs
I still enjoy watching brazilian soap operas. Despite the fact that they are very ( I mean VERY) counter productive
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Gaming into education: Can even Angry Birds promote learning?
Opportunities for teaching and learning are everywhere. Language is also everywhere. Given this scenario, it drives me crazy when I
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Speech Trainer 3D Now available at 80% Off
Smarty Ears has been working on a secret and mysterious app for a long time. Speech Trainer 3D is now
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Geek SLP TV: Special CASLPA Spring Newsletter Video on Articulation Apps
On the upcoming Spring Newsletter of the Canadian Speech and Language Pathologists Association ( CASLPA) – pronounce like /castle/+ /pa/;
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Articulation Apps by Smarty Ears Document: Free Download
I have compiled a document for articulation apps developed by Smarty Ears as a handout for my presentations. I have
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Geek SLP TV Episode #16: Accessibility on the iPad
On today’s episode I explore the accessibility features on the iOS 4.3 which transforms the iPad into a beautiful universal
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Smart Oral Motor: Animated App by Smarty Ears is now available
Smart Oral Motor is a cute application designed to help children practice their oral motor skills which are impaired in
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Articulation Carry Over and the iPad
As I attempt to write my first ever Blog, and probably only Blog since this will most likely sink into
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Using Skype to Provide Articulation Therapy to people around the world
Following up the use of Skype for providing services. I had the opportunity to interview Marcus Little, a Canadian Speech
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Skype-Coaching Parents in Auditory Verbal Therapy by Dave Sindrey
I’m more of a wannabe Geek than Geek. I only seem to learn about new technology when I get excited
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GeekSLP TV #14: Meet Poorani the creator of Speech with Milo
It was a pleasure to get to meet Poorani! The best thing about making this video podcast is getting
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Grace: One of the first AAC Apps for children with Autism
I am very happy to see the success this application has had. I am also very happy to see the
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GeekSLP TV #12: Expressive, the new updated AAC App for children with Autism.
On GeekSLP #12 I will review the basic function on the Expressive app for children with Autism and other expressive
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Macworld 2011, iPhone @Verizon, Play2Learn, Publishing SLP Apps
It has been a while, but GeekSLP TV #11 is posted on my website ( www.geekslp.com). On today’s episode I
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GeekSLP TV #11: Macworld 2011, Verizon iPhone, Play2Learn & Publishing your apps
It has been a while, but GeekSLP TV #11 is posted on my website ( www.geekslp.com). On today’s episode I
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Apps for Bilingual SLPs and English-speaking speech therapists working with Spanish-speaking children.
I am a bilingual speech pathologist, and for those of you who work with Spanish-speaking children you know how frustrating
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Facebook Pages for SLPs
If you are interested in technology, and networking with speech therapists online, Facebook.com can be a great option. Long gone
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AAC App for the iPad and the iPhone Makes Communicating Affordable for People with Disabilities
Dallas, TX (PRWEB) January 6, 2011 — Today Smarty Ears announced the release of Expressive 1.1 for iPhone, iPod touch
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The iPad saved the day once again: Speech and Language evaluation and the Pocket Pond app
Speech therapists are known to be very creative. We are able to pull activities from nowhere and transform it into
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Asha Convention 2010, Phildelphia
It is hard to believe that the ASHA convention (AKA #ashaconv) is already over. I arrived in Philly Wednesday night,
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Halloween themed apps to improve children’s language skills
In the spirit of Halloween I have decided to look at a few Halloween themed apps that can be used
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GeekSLP TV #9: New AAC software for PC
Jose Ortiz is an innovator in the area of technology. Speech therapy is way overdue for new ways of improving
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GeekSLP Tv Episode #7: Using The Sims to improve Language skills.
Recording this Podcast made me remember my days as an undergraduate student in Brazil. The use of “The Sims” in
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Sunny Articulation Test: An incredible motivator for Preschool children.
Wow Folks! It has been a while. Summer is over and time is short. I am way overdue for a
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Stuttering and the iPod, iPad, iPhone: the need for technology use has always been there; but only now we have a real convenient tool
As a graduate student, I was assigned to a client with concerns regarding his fluency skills. He was 28 years
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Nondiscriminatory standards and expectations for speech and language pathologists: Accent and dialectal differences.
This time I have decided to share an article I wrote for the TSHA ” Communicologist” magazine. The topic is
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Sunny Articulation Test – Best Speech Therapy App on iTunes
I have decided to make my GeekSLP Tv #6 about an app that I have created: The Sunny Articulation Test.
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GeekSLP TV #5: Social Media, Web 2.0 and Speech Therapy
I have submitted a paper today to the Texas Speech and Hearing COnference on this topic, and I decided to
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GeekSLP TV – Episode #4: IOS4 Update, Talking Tom, #SLPeeps
After a long vacation in Thailand I am back to the west side of the world and ready for some
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GeekSLP TV- Episode #3: /r/ intensive SLP
This is the episode # 3 of GeekSLP TV. I have decided to feature a specific app today: /r/ intensive SLP.
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Free software for Speech and Language Therapists- PAL
I love seeing people creating technology that can be used by speech therapists. This time I fell in love with
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Using the iPhone and iPod Touch for Articulation Therapy
There are so many ways to use the iPhone or iPod Touch for speech therapy. Today I will discuss how
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Creative ideas to use the basic functions of the iPhone or iPod Touch for Speech Therapy
There are more than 400 million active iPhone users worldwide. On top of that there are over 260,000,000 iPod Touch
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