Description
Special Words teaches children to recognize written words, using pictures and sounds, on iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Play alongside your child, at a pace suited to their ability. Special Words has 4 games with increasing difficulty, matching pictures, words, and both. You can personalize by reordering, deleting and adding your own words, pictures and audio, with the ability to easily synchronize to your other Apple mobile devices.
An interactive app that allows children to learn at their own pace, Special Words has been designed in close consultation with parents, children and professionals. With a simple and intuitive interface, Special Words has been shown to be accessible and hold the attention of children with Down syndrome, autism, poor fine motor skills, hearing impairment and other learning difficulties, as well as being appealing to typically developing children.
Suitable for use at home, school, and in therapy sessions, Special Words comes with 96 written words children use in their early vocabulary. It includes matching pictures, written and spoken words, in 13 languages: English (American, British and Australian), Catalan, Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian (Bokmål), Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. You can easily replace the words and re-record the audio in any other language your child uses. You can quickly add more words, pictures and sounds for family members, friends, and familiar objects, to increase your child’s interest, and further develop their reading vocabulary.
This is a universal app for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, and you can easily transfer personalized text, pictures and sounds between your devices, using Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or e-mail.
The words and pictures provided with Special Words are the same as those in the See and Learn Language and Reading resources from Down Syndrome Education International, and this app can be used to complement the use of their paper-based See and Learn activities.
What's New in Version 1.3.1
What’s New in Version 1.3.1:
• Improved Catalan and Spanish translations.
What’s New in Version 1.3.0:
• New language: Norwegian.
• Optimized for new iPad.
• Bug fixes for animations and sounds.
What’s New in Version 1.2.0:
• There's a new Settings option “Shuffle Cards”. If you turn this on, then the 4 cards to match on each page appear swapped around randomly each time the page appears. This will now stretch those children who are remembering the position of each card!
• There is now a Settings button in the Extra Actions view, to access the app’s settings without having to launch the Settings app.
• In previous versions, tapping or swiping before each card to match appeared could allow children to guess ahead. Now these gestures are ignored until the card appears, encouraging waiting to perform tasks in order.
• The padlock button now has to be held for 3 seconds to have any effect. Also, when locked, the buttons to move to the first or last page are now disabled. Together, these should make it less likely that children's fingers will move the game away from the task in hand.
• When importing a Word List, the option to add as a new profile now appears at the top of the list, instead of being hidden at the bottom. Also, if you choose to replace an existing profile there's an extra confirmation prompt, so you can avoid accidentally replacing the wrong profile if you tap it by mistake.
• Previous versions had a bug that meant that even if editing had been disabled in the Settings app, it was still possible to delete words or profiles by swiping across them. This is now prevented.
- $13.99
- Category: Education
- Updated: May 12, 2012
- Version: 1.3.1
- Size: 18.9 MB
- Languages: English, Bokmål, Norwegian, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
- Seller: Special iApps
- © 2011-2012 Special iApps
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch (2nd generation), iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
