In my post yesterday, I discussed the complexity approach and how treating clusters can lead to changes with affricates, fricatives, and stops. Amazing! This handy apps allows you to have fantastic photos of 10 complex clusters to help engage students in a fun and interactive way. The app is on sale through June 30th for $34.99. After that, the price will be $49.99 so buy it now!
Main Page
Students: If you press the Students button, you go to a page to set up your students' information. There is a "?" button at the top to help you. Press "+" and enter information about that student. You can add a picture of the student, as well as first name, last name, birthday, classroom, miscellaneous notes, and their targets. It also includes a history of that student's performance on past sessions. The age is automatically calculated when the birthday is entered.
Here is a screen shot of how it will look:
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| By the way, my husband doesn't actually have that rockin' mustache (it's an app) |
Sessions: When you click on the Sessions button, you can start a session by pressing the "+" sign. The screen will look like this:
Name the session and select the students that are attending the session. Under Student Settings, you can customize settings for individual students. You can choose whether or not you want to randomize the display of words, phrases, and sentences. According to motor learning theory, once the child has established the sound in words or CV syllables, you want to randomly have them produce that sound in words, phrases, and sentences. You can choose to work on words, phrases, and/or sentences, and choose what targets you want to address. It will look like this:
Once your students are set up, you can click on the "Session Settings" button to choose a theme (soccer, dogs, ballerinas- there are many to choose from!), session length, colored border, sound effects, theme video, and criteria for playing the theme video. The colored border is used to differentiate between the different targets and is one added visual that can be used. A theme video can be played at the end of the session and you can set the % accuracy the student needs to get in order to see the video.
Now you're ready to go! Click "Begin Session."
Treatment Sessions:
Clusters Complex uses photographs for target stimuli which is great for carryover for those on the autism spectrum. Here's an example page during a session using the "dog" theme:
If you press on the picture, it will read the word, phrase, or sentence for the child. You can click the check mark if the student produces it correctly, the "x" if the student produces incorrectly, the red circle to record the student's production, and the green triangle to play the recording. The red hand can be used at any time to stop the session. The numbers at the top of the screen in green and red indicate how many correct versus incorrect responses the student has had. Swipe to go to the next picture. The app will take turns displaying target stimuli for the students you have set up for the session and will display the student's name before his/her turn.
When you're ready to end the session, press the red hand or let the cards run out. The app will then provide feedback to individual students, showing the student how many were correct/could do better. It will look like this:
You can then click on the student's profile to access data on what words were correct/incorrect and audio files. This can all be emailed from the page. When you're finished reviewing the data, press the up arrow to return to the home screen.
Help: On the main page, you can access help that provides information on how to set up students and start sessions. Each page also has a detailed help button for that particular page.
Evidence-Based Practice: If you press this button, the authors provide you with references that support the use of 2- and 3-element clusters to affect change with clusters, affricates, fricatives, and stops. In addition, all target words used are provided so that you can choose alternate words for probes to measure progress.
SLPath: This will, in the future, provide you with updates of new developments from SLPath.
FL, FR, SKR, SHR, SL, SPL, SPR, SKW, STR, THR Quickstart: These buttons allow you to focus on 1 target and start quickly without having to set up a full session; however, only one student's data will be tracked when using this option. The data is not linked back to students that you have already set up. You can email the data to keep track of it, if needed.
Backup & Restore: This button allows you to back up your information and restore data if needed. The authors recommend that you also use iTunes to backup your information regularly.
What I like now:
- Well thought out target words with earlier developing sounds in the rest of the word so student can focus on cluster production
- Beautiful photographs of target words
- Can individualize for each student's targets and level
- Multiple students can use the app at one time
- The app takes data and records it; this data can be emailed and/or viewed within the app
- Video rewards for success are motivating
What I would like to see in the future:
- As it stands now, the app can only be used for drill and practice; however the author has plans to update it frequently and add a card matching component
- A graphing option so that data can be viewed from multiple sessions in a parent-friendly way
- A easy-to-access/quick view of all the student's session data instead of having to click on an individual session history to see the data
- It would be nice to be able to select session dates and get an average % correct across those dates- would make it much easier during progress report writing time!
- Phonology/Articulation: I would primarily use this app to work with students with phonological or articulation-based goals. If using the complexity approach, a wide variety of goals could be addressed by using this app, including errors with stops, fricatives, affricates, and blends/clusters.
- Expressive Language: You know how we always have strangely mixed groups! I could use this app to work on describing/EET with my language students if I have a mixed group.
- Fluency/Voice: Students could say the words, phrases, sentences using a strategy learned.
- Social Skills: You could use this app to work on turn taking skills with multiple students.
Disclaimer: Spunky Speech was given a copy of this application to review. No other form of compensation was given.
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