4 fun apps to use during therapy

Apps are part of therapy now. For one child they are a motivation, for another they make an exercise visible. We have refreshed our list from 2017: two of the apps no longer exist, and new ones have arrived that Flemish speech therapists use today.

Number 1: LOGO-Art Online

LOGO-Art is an articulation and language app for the iPad, with minimal pairs, vocabulary and sentence building. You set the sounds and the level per child and choose the game form yourself. Beside it, the free LOGO-Art Thuis app for iOS and Android sends homework to the parents’ phone and returns the results to you.

Therapy carries on between two sessions, without photocopied exercise sheets.

Price: 249 euro a year or 24.95 euro a month for the online version. The home app is free.

Number 2: Fonemi

Fonemi was developed by VIVES University of Applied Sciences in Bruges and trains phonological awareness: recognising, analysing, blending and manipulating sounds. The 440 exercises adapt to the child’s level, and everything is spoken in Flemish Dutch. The app runs in the browser, so on any device.

Price: from 10.33 euro per credit, with at least one credit a year.

Number 3: Lekker Puh

Lekker Puh comes from Radboudumc and lets a child practise one target sound, from the isolated sound to the sentence. Speech recognition gives immediate feedback, so the child can also practise without you beside them. Available for iOS and Android, reviewed by the speech therapists of Driestroom. The app is in Dutch.

Price: free, with no in-app purchases.

Number 4: Karaton

Karaton remains the therapy game for reading and dyslexia, made in Leuven and scientifically grounded. New since our first list: Karaton is no longer an app but runs in the browser. In the dashboard for professionals you set the exercises per child and follow the progress.

Price: 96 euro a year for professionals, after two free trial weeks.

And the dB meter?

For voice therapy a decibel meter on the phone remains handy to make loudness visible. Geluidsmeter by Tools Dev on Google Play still does that well and is free, with advertising. Calibration is never perfect, so treat the values as an indication.

If you work on stuttering, also look at DAF Pro (4.99 euro): delayed auditory feedback to steer the speaking rate.

Do you have an app of your own that no therapy session should be without? Let us know through the contact form.