A great free app that is great for a reward or reinforcer is "fast traffic". The preschoolers really enjoy this one. Another great free app is "Hello Kitty". You get to change "Hello Kitty's" outfits.

A more educational one: Let's Build also free

Ines-SLP

SLP Pocket Pairs App

My kids really enjoy this app as much as I do! They are able to listen to their recordings of their speech sounds. They enjoy hearing themselves and are learning to identify their own errors. I love how it keeps data and graphs the last 5 sessions. The graphs are great to e-mail to teachers or print and send home so their parents can visually see their child's progress. The kids like to see their progress as well.

Whiteboard Apps to use in Speech-Language Therapy

Since I am not always in my therapy room with access to a white board, I have found the following apps useful- Educreations, Kid Paint and Glow Coloring. I use them to write on the iPad, whether making a graphic organizer or setting up a color template for the Expanding Expression Tool. All three apps allow you to save your work as a photo so you can use it another time.

PlayHome Lite

Fellow SLP Kristen Brown told me about the free app  My Play Home Lite.  I found that it is a great app for eliciting the present progressive tense in preschool and kindergarten students since the actions they control in the play house occur in real time.  It features 5  family members so it is easy to elicit lots of correct subject pronouns too.  The free app only has the kitchen and living room.  You can get more rooms in the full version of My PlayHome, but the 2 rooms in this version offer plenty of choices to fill a therapy session.

Articulation apps

Articulation! : This is my favorite app so far. It allows you to use words, sentences, loaded sentences and loaded reading passages followed by simple comprehension questions for practice.

ArtikPix

Pocket Pairs

IPAD Social Skills

I have been using my IPADs with lots of my nonverbal or somewhat verbal MD kids.  TouchChat really seems to be making a big impact because of the language system and its opportunities for growth.  This has saved me some time so that I don't have to make as many communication boards for them since they are using the core vocabulary on their IPAD.  I have also been using the IPAD for my kindergarten social skill intervention in the classrooms.  Each week we cover a topic (keeping your hands to yourself, listening to the teacher), watch a video, and then I tape the kids practicing the skill or not practicing the skill outside of the classroom.  It is a great learning tool and the kids give feedback on how they did.  They really enjoy watching themselves and I think it is good for them to see what they are doing and break down what they can improve on next time.
Blake

TouchChat

A second-grade student who is apraxic and extremely unintelligible transferred into my school.  He had received speech therapy since preschool and it seemed time to explore using an alternative communication device to help him express himself.  I introduced the TouchChat app  while working with him in the resource room.  He immediately loved working with it and within a few sessions he was writing simple sentences although it was very labor-intensive for him.  One day when I came to see him, he had just finished his spelling test and his substitute teacher for the day told me that while he could spell all the words correctly as a list he had memorized, he could not spell them on dictation and did not really know what they meant.  I used the keyboard feature on TouchChat and had the student type in one of his spelling words and then have the i-Pad speak the word for him.  His eyes lit up and he quickly typed in another of his spelling words.  I wish that I could tell you that this was the break-through moment like Helen Keller at the water pump, but unfortunately he transferred from my school after that session so I'm not certain of the impact.   I do think that this app had a lot of potential for him.

Target sounds in stories

So, I now have become sucked into Pinterest, which is where I got the link to www.communicationconnects.com. It has free stories for target speech sounds. I bookmarked the site on my iPad. Then found the story for R (my student's target) and took a picture of the story on the iPad (press the on/off button and Menu button simultaneously). Next I opened up the app Educreations, which is a white board that you can write on and records voice as well. I "chose the picture from my library" containing the story. Now while the student reads the story, I can record him/her AND use the color pen feature in Educreation to mark any sound errors made. It sounds complicated but took all of 30 seconds to set up!