Music and Media Talking Apps
Jump start your child's language and literacy development with this collection of cool tools to get kids chatting. These apps will promote speech, talking, and vocabulary will help with language expansion, questioning skills (WH questions (What, where, when, why), following directions, environmental sounds (animal, car, object sounds), spatial concepts (in, on, under, next to, over), conversational and turn-taking.
- Itsy Bitsy Spider - Duck Duck Moose
A classic nursery rhyme, Itsy Bitsy Spider is on an exciting journey up the water spout and beyond! Learn about the environment and animals while singing along to this classic kid's song. Itsy Bitsy Spider offers children a fun, interactive and educational experience that promotes oral language and vocabulary. - Elmo Loves ABC's
Elmo Loves ABCs app contains songs, videos, and games, with an emphasis on helping children learn to identify letter names (uppercase and lowercase) and letter sounds, and form letter shapes. It promotes oral language, vocabulary and literacy skills. - Splingo
The Splingo app promotes speech and language as well as listening and language skills through interactive games. The app was designed by speech and language therapists to focus on nouns, verbs, prepositions, and adjectives. It comes with a range of age possibilities, including early language development to a much more complex level of combining several aspects of language at once.