Speech with Milo: Sequencing
By Doonan Speech Therapy
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Description
Selected as the #2 Best Education App for Kids by Babble.com. “Speech with Milo” apps were created by a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist, and have been downloaded over 50,000 times.
Milo is back to bring you Sequencing exercises like you have never used before! Enjoy 35 dynamic sequencing exercises using animation to keep your child engaged. Speech with Milo: Sequencing was created by a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist to help children develop sequencing and storytelling skills. The adorable mouse Milo brings a friend along this time to entertain and help your child.
★★★★★ "This app developer really understands what SLP's find valuable in an app that is used in a therapy setting."
★★★★★ "I use the Milo apps on a daily basis in therapy and the children remain engaged and truly enjoy playing and learning with Milo. This app is a must buy."
Build basic sequencing skills by ordering three cards showing Milo and Melvin performing a task. For example, cards showing Milo “Washing Hands” and “Going to the Movies” are presented in random order. The child is tasked with putting the cards in order by dragging the images into the appropriate box (numbered 1-3). Once the child has put the cards in order, they are provided with the option to play the animation demonstrating the sequence of events. The app is provided with configurable options to view hints, hear the sentence aloud, ‘success’ sounds, etc. Forget those $15 Sequencing cards at the educational stores- this is much more fun for your child.
Watch the YouTube demo here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiZ-IBPC6gU
Speech with Milo first became popular amongst Speech-Language Pathologists and parents with apps to help children build language skills with Verbs and Prepositions. The Verbs app represented the education category for the Mobile Premier Awards and was embraced by the parent community. Now Milo returns to help build critical sequencing skills.
The app comes with a set of instructions written by a licensed SLP to help you work with your child.
These are the language skills you will be targeting with this app:
•Sequencing
•Storytelling and/or retelling
•Time concepts “first,” “next,” and “last”
•Increasing utterance length
•Developing complex sentences
•Improving grammatical skills
Enjoy!!
Doonan Speech Therapy is a member of Moms with Apps, a collaborative group of family-friendly developers seeking to promote quality apps for kids and families.
Recommended Ages: 1-3,4-7,Parents
Categories: Special Needs, Vocabulary
For support issues: www.speechwithmilo.com
Customer Reviews
Unusable by SLP for therapy
I applaud the SLP who created this app, as I know take on a project of this magnitude was very brave and innovative. As an Speech- Language Pathologist, I was hoping to be able to use this in my preschool with children with special needs and children at home, who are typically developing. With this version, that will not be possible.
The list of sequences is lengthy, comprehensive and applicable to everyday life. When working with young or delayed children, it is very important that the picture be very clear and concrete. With these computer generated pictures, I, the adult, cannot determine what is happening in each picture. First, the pictures are small. In addition, within each picture, there is lots of wasted background space, often with competing objects in each frame. Sometimes, within the three sequences, the viewer's position changes, making it difficult to determine the focus of each frame.
For me to recommend this app, the pictures need to be changed to actual photography, with a simple, non-competing background.
It would be nice for the step sequence to be spoken when the child touches the step, helping to identify the step. Perhaps this mode could be turned off or on by an adult, as needed for the child's ability level.
In addition, I would like to see a 'teach' mode, where it would demonstrate the steps of each sequence, rather than the current quiz only mode.
Additional functions that would be helpful would be a multi-user mode and data keeping. Users MUST be able to randomize the sequences. Every time I use it i also get the same sequences in the same order. Please lock down the settings menu so children can't accidentally change the settings.
In its current state, this app is useable only for children without disabilities six and older, and even older if the child has speech and language delays.
Please keep this in mind and provide an update. Thank you for your dedication and innovation.
Suggestion for a fix
Both my students and I love it. Only suggestion I have to make it would be to remove the a b c from the picture descriptions. I have students that compkete the rask just looking at the letters rather than looking at the pictures.
very nice app
This is a Great app. My only suggestion would be to have an option for 4, 5, and six sequence scenarios.
Also I would like an option for a reading aloud the.hints option to support emergent literacy development.
- $2.99
- Category: Education
- Released: Apr 19, 2011
- Version: 1.1.1
- Size: 69.3 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Poorani Doonan
- © Doonan Speech Therapy
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.0 or later
