The 3 Best Free Speech Therapy Apps
Speech Therapy Apps to Use for Data Collection
Are you a speech therapist looking for the best free speech therapy apps? Using apps for speech can improve your speech therapy data collection.
Check out how!
Here are the top 3 iPad speech therapy apps that you can use to fill your therapy data collection sheets with IEP goal data collection.
1. TxTools by PediaStaff
TxTools is a free speech therapy app that is great for data collection. With it’s 4 cornerstone features it makes a great free iPad app for speech therapy, as well as a helpful app for speech on your phone.
Check out these AMAZING features!
Percent Right: with quick taps, the speech therapy app calculates the percentage correct by tracking correct and incorrect responses in real-time or when listening to/watching a recorded sample.
You can also add a time element to make sure that your speech sample meets the time requirement of your goal if you have one.
This speech therapy data tracker is easily transferred to your data collection sheet.
EXAMPLES:
Articulation: Easily track correct and incorrect production of a target sound. You can also use this to measure overall intelligibility. Use this to collect accuracy in conversational speech samples.
Language: If you need to measure a specific grammar structure in conversational speech, like past tense forms, you can easily calculate the percent correct.
Fluency: Use this feature to measure % fluency in a conversational speech using whole words or syllables. Track the spoken syllables or words easily.
Tally This: Use this feature to easily keep an ongoing tally during speech therapy activities, eliminating the need to manually count with paper and pencil.
This feature is great to use if the sound of a manual clicker distracts your student. Track correct productions for articulation and speech sound disorders easily!
You can add a time measure to this feature too!
Age Finder: quickly figure out a student’s chronological age today or in the future for use during your speech and language evaluations.
Are you an SLP who hates figuring out how old a student is by year and month for your speech therapy assessments? This age finder will solve that problem for you in a snap!
IEP Scheduler: This feature counts out days to help calculate the exact date of upcoming IEPs, evaluations, or specific day timelines for initial evaluations.
Never miss a due date again. Determine exactly when your speech therapy evaluation and IEP are due with this speech therapy caseload management tool!
Read about how Adventures in Speech Pathology uses TxTools to get 100 trials in articulation therapy on the blog Favorite Ways to Get 100 Trials in Speech.
2. Word Vault by Home Speech Home
Word Vault is one of the best speech therapy apps available. There are 2 versions. Essential is a robust free speech therapy app and there is a Pro Version.
This speech and language app is amazing because it includes articulation, phonology, language, and social skills targets and you can access it all in the free app version!
It is worth its weight in gold if you ask me! I think it is the most underused therapy app but the best app for SLPs who work with a variety of students!
The free speech therapy app version includes lists and skills that can be used as speech therapy data collection probes without any prep on your part!
READ MORE ABOUT USING SPEECH THERAPY DATA COLLECTION PROBES HERE.
In the articulation section, you can choose nonsense words, real words, control for the position, number of syllables, and words from the word level all the way up to a reading level.
With the Pro version, you can create student profiles, record student voices, and email information but in my opinion, you don’t need this if you have a great data collection system that you use already!
Get Word Vault now to step up your speech and language data collection and language assessment!
3. Articulation Station by Little Bee Speech
Articulation Station has a free speech therapy app version with in-app purchases for additional sounds and a Pro version that includes everything.
Articulation Station includes word, phrase, sentence, and story-level articulation activities for speech therapy.
One of the best data collection features of this app is to use the SAVED WORD LISTS.
By saving word lists by sound and position, you can create articulation therapy data collection probes that you can use to measure progress toward your IEP goals.
This speech therapy app saves student profiles so it will collect and keep student progress over time. Not only can you save raw data but you can also save recorded speech samples!
When you get data collection right, all the other aspects of your job get easier when it comes to speech therapy caseload management.
Begin using the Best Apps for Speech Therapy today!
Comment below and let me know if you have used these apps before and your favorite way to use them to collect your speech therapy data!
