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LocuTour products are designed by Speech-Language Pathologists who have many years of experience working with children and adults who have language, speech, and attention issues. Our software uses colorful pictures to grab your client’s attention but the most important part of the software is the built-in voice recorder. Clients can hear their own voice, compare it to our production, hear the difference, and make corrections. After the SLP explains how to make the correct sounds, they quickly become adept at changing their own speech.

Minimal Pairs

This app is based on the Minimal Pairs game from LocuTour’s Phonology I CD. It uses a phonological approach to remediating speech that is based on the ideas of Hodson and Paden. The program focuses on target patterns rather than target phonemes. One pattern is targeted for a limited time, two to four weeks, then the next pattern is targeted. Hodson and Paden called this method of introducing patterns a “cycle”. Read more or buy it now on iTunes.

Show Me…

Show Me… is a receptive and expressive language task developed by speech-language pathologists to improve receptive and expressive language skills. Children learn animal names, verbs, and early concepts such as over/under, happy/sad. They respond with a tap on the screen to answer the "Show Me" prompt. A clear speech model is presented for the child to imitate. Record and play back the speech and score each response as correct, incorrect or disordered. Great for early language development or children with speech-language disorders with the target language age between 2-8 years. Read more or buy it now on iTunes.

Wild, Woolly, Wonderful Critters

Wild, Woolly, Wonderful Critters has six stimuli for each of 120 animal pictures: word; parentese (gender neutral term coined by Robert Owens, 1996); descriptive phrase; descriptive statement; functional statement; and the initial sound of the target word. Habitats include: House, Ranch/Farm, Forest, Mountain, Desert, Insect, River/Lake, Ocean, Africa, Jungle, Prairie/Grasslands, and Tundra/Arctic.Read more. Buy it soon on iTunes.

Train Talk

Train Talk is for children who love to talk about trains. This app helps direct that conversation to learn to ask and answer WH questions. Here are 128 pictures with question prompts and sample answers to encourage turn taking, spontaneous speech, conversational skills, and auditory comprehension. Who knew Train Talk could be so fun!Read more. Buy it soon on iTunes.

Artic Practice

Artic Practice give you more Speech Therapy for school and home practice! This app has colorful drawings to hold children’s interest as they practice their good speech. Focus on Initial, Medial, and Consonant phonemes along with Consonant Clusters and some Vowels + R.Read more. Buy it soon on iTunes.

Phonology

Phonology lets you give more Speech Therapy for children with unintelligible speech! This app is an auditory discrimination activity that helps children hear the difference between words like “stop” and “top” and say words like “cap” and “spoon”. Colorful drawings to hold children’s interest as they practice their good speech. Appropriate for children ages 3-5 with impaired speech intelligibility. Based on the Hodson model of Phonological Processing.Read more. Buy it soon on iTunes.

Word Practice

Word Practice is designed for children speaking in single words but having trouble with simple phrases and sentences. It provides a model for step-by-step transition to full sentences. Colorful drawings or photos are presented in three categories: Common Verbs, Contrast Words like “over/under”, and Animals. SLPs will appreciate that this activity models more complex grammar and syntax for imitation.Read more. Buy it soon on iTunes.

Articulation IV

Articulation IV teaches receptive and expressive language skills while children practice their good speech. This app has four of the most common articulation targets—R, S, L, and Th–in the Initial, Medial, Final positions and in Consonant Clusters. New vocabulary includes words not commonly found in yesterday’s word lists but necessary for today's classroom success such as, compost, awesome, LOL, USB port, browser, search engine, etc. Sort the words by target sound and position, and by curriculum area. Groups include: Computer-related words, math, time & measurement, curriculum words, emotions, food, music, sports and games etc… Read more…

FAA Glossaries

FAA Glossaries is a collection of Glossaries found in FAA publications for pilots. It includes terms and acronyms from seven FAA books including: Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge, Airplane Flying Handbook, Instrument Flying Handbook, and Aviation Weather. It also includes the acronyms from the AIM, the complete Pilot/Controller Glossary, ATC Glossary, and definitions from the FARs. The terms can be browsed by book or by category—Private, Instrument, Advanced, Weather, Aircraft, Human Factors, Non-Airplane, and CFI. A quiz section lets you test your knowledge of random terms. Read more…