An educational speech App that helps toddlers to talk!
An educational two player speech App that brings families together!
Our educational speech App has been designed to develop a child's imitation skills. Imitation is a pre-speech skill that has been found to be important for young children's later development of speech, language, memory and a variety of social-cognitive skills. Even adults learn by watching on other people or YouTubes - Adults learn by imitating. If children do not go grow a strong imiation stage developmental delays can result. (Olsen & Masur2012; Gratier & Devouche,2011;Nielsen2011, Paleez,2011; Ray & Heyes,2011)
Research has shown that Infants' language exposure largely involves face-to-face interactions using listening and visual speech cues as well as social cues – this combination fosters language learning. Infants' audio-visual speech perception is linked with later vocabulary size, suggesting a lasting effect on language development. (Alvater-Mackensen N & Grossmann T. 2015). Unlike many APPs this App specifically links the social interaction with the enjoyment of technology.
The imitation App links different learning styles of individual children to unique imitation learning experiences.
As each game in the App has specfic scripts you can use with your child - no matter what their language level is at - you can be ensured you are maximising the learning experience while having heaps of fun. The scripts are writtent by a Speech Pathologist tailored for children with no words and you are aiming for some imitation of hand movements right through to imitation of long & complex spoken sentences. Build expressive language skills each time you play expecting more as you child develops. An App that grows with your child. Any studies suggesting that electronic devices are not good educational entertainment have come to this conclusion as most Apps result in the child playing in the corner on their own. Our Talking Together App was developed with this research specifically in mind - the two play and interactional nature of the games ensures learning can be enhenced yet their love of electronics can be met.
Dr McMahon B.App.Sc (Sp Path.) PhD, MSPA, CPSP has helped literally hundreds of toddlers meet their full potential and conducted innumerable highly acclaimed parent training workshops and presentations. She is highly sort both clinically for intervention services and as a parent consultant for prevention and optimisation of child development.Dr McMahon initially worked in South Australia’s Children’s Services Office providing support to children in Child Care Centres & Kindergartens. This included extensive direct clinical work with young children as well as consultative services to Educational Staff in relation to planning for communication & learning of pre-school children.Her wealth of clinical knowledge continued to expand upon taking the position of Director of Speech Pathology of a major Metropolitan Tertiary Hospital (Royal Children’s Hospital, Brisbane) where she combined direct clinical practise, research and administrative advocacy to ensure the best practise for children & their families attending the Brisbane Hospital & Community Health Centres in the region. Dr McMahon worked and over saw speciality clinics such as the Children’s Head Injury Unit, Neonatal Intensive Care & the Developmental Clinic (Autism, Dyspraxia, Developmental Delay, and Cerebral Palsy).Upon completion of her PhD in the areas of early communication and literacy development of 2-4 year old children she took up a University Lecturer position in these areas.Dr McMahon currently is the Director of Speech Pathology of the SpeechNet Speech Pathology & Learning Centre in Brisbane. This is a state of the Art Multi-disciplinary Allied Health Clinic supporting children & their families in the 0-18 year range. In addition to one-on-one clinical services (in-clinic & via Skype), her passion to support more families has led to the development of the Pop & Top Language & Social Group Programs; and more recently a suite of Online Parent courses & resources. The TODDlER TALK eProgram for parents is the culmination of all her experience and knowledge consolidated into an easily accessible format for parent and Educators of young children.Further Dr McMahon presents at National and International Conferences, State wide seminars (Children Reflux, Multiple Birth Association) and is a frequent invited presenter for several organisations. Most noteworthy Dr McMahon has a large range of scientific publications & book chapters from original research in the areas of Speech, Language & Literacy Development.
Use the gestures, words & sentences used in the game in everyday routines and activities to boost and strengthen speech and language skills.
This educational speech App helps boost speech skills from gestures to long sentence development.
An educational speech App that makes learning Fun!
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