Description
rIntensive SLP is one of Smarty Ears’ articulation apps. rIntensive SLP was developed as a result of “intensive” requests made by our Speech Therapists. Smarty Ears is aware of the high incidence of students seen for their difficulties with /r/.
We hope that rIntensive SLP becomes a tool that will help your accuracy levels in teaching the production of the English /r/.
With over 450 target words /r/ intensive is the best tool for practicing this "interesting" phoneme.
rIntensive SLP uses a phonetic approach to teaching the “r” sound by creating subgroups that will hopefully make your student more successful in therapy. We have divided the /r/ phoneme at he word level as follows:
a.Pre-Vocalic /r/
b./r/ Clusters
c./rl/
d./Ir/
e./ajər/
f./ar/
g./er/
h./or/
i./ər/
rIntensive SLP has also added two very useful functions:
1.The “Probes” option. Here you may choose to probe your students and attempt to identify the specific “environment” that you must work on. For example: Your student may only have difficulty with /r/ in clusters and /rl/ but have a good production when the /r/ is in all other phonetic environments.
2.Phrase level. Here we have created a possibility of practicing the /r/ at the phrase level. You may choose to practice the phrase level in conjunction with “word level” or after the student has mastered the “ word level”.
rIntensive SLP is the only tool in the market that allows you to not only practice the production of the /r/ phoneme but also tally the percentage of accuracy at the same time with the same tool: your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.
For more information visit our website at http://www.smarty-ears.com
Smarty Ears has a variety of apps for speech therapists, make sure you check out our selection of apps by searching “Smarty Ears” in your app store.
What's New in Version 2.0
- Full ipad compatibility
Customer Reviews
Nice but could be better
This has a nice selection of words, but would love to have a record option. Also, would like to have phrases to practice, not just complete sentences and isolated words.
Pretty Good
I like this app for my complex /r/ cases. Its nice to have a more in depth app to cover /r/. With this app I can target the specific vocalic /r/ variants that my students need. The pictures are not my favorite, but most of my students are a little older so its not really a problem for me. I would recommend.
Buyer beware
This app has several pictures that may offend or scare kids. One word is vampire accompanied by a scary looking lady with black lips and a low cut dress. Escort has a picture of a convict being escorted by a police man. It is not possible to pick specific vocabulary so if you use /or/ or /ire/ you are stuck with the pictures.
This app is also awkward to use. You have to score before moving to the next word. You can't back up. You can't pick sound positions within words.
Artici pix has almost as many /r/ and is easier to use. You also get other sounds with artic pix.
- $19.99
- Category: Education
- Updated: Mar 17, 2011
- Version: 2.0
- Size: 71.2 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Smarty Ears, LLC
- © All rights reserved to Smarty Ears, LLC
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.2 or later
