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Halloween Speech Therapy Apps

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A few years ago I wrote about my favorite Halloween speech therapy apps.  I’m not using my iPad as much in therapy anymore, but there are still some really fun apps out there to use in therapy.  
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I am sharing some of my favorite apps-and a few new ones with some ideas of how I use them in therapy.  (Note-this post contains affiliate links for your convenience.  Affiliate links pay a small percentage of the sale to the affiliate if someone chooses to purchase a product from the link provided.)

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This is a simple cause and effect app.  First you can pick the costume that your dog is going to wear.  Once the dog is dressed, you go to different houses and knock on the door.  When you open the door a wheel spins to see if you get a trick or a treat.  Then an adorable video of a dog completing an action is shown.  (For example, a treat generally involves bacon being deliver to the dog.  An example of a trick would include Millie the dog jumping into a bag.)  I use this for predicting and producing past, present and future tense forms.  (Ex. What will the dog do?  The dog will jump).

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I have LOVED Ed Emberly’s books since I was little.  I still have old journals where I tried to use his shape based approach to draw different objects.  This is combines his artwork with the idea of Peekaboo Farm.  The door is knocking, you answer it and different Halloween characters appear.  It’s fun to work on Halloween vocabulary.

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 I used to carve pumpkins with my clients-this is so much better.  This is a “virtual” pumpkin carving app which allows you to carve out the pumpkin using your finger.  I’ve used it for sequencing (first cut out eyes, nose, mouth and then light the pumpkin) and also as a reinforcer.
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I use this app to work on /s/ blends (scary, stop, spooky) and reasoning tasks.  The narrator in the story keeps trying to get you to stop reading the book because it is too scary.  I like some of the interactive features can be fun to get the student to contradict the narrator.  (For example, he says that he is going to show you monster eyes-then there is an activity where you can “drop” meatballs onto the iPad.  I’ll work with my client to see if they could “politely” tell the narrator that those weren’t monster eyeballs.
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Why print out a mask when you can take a picture and put on virtual mask on your photo.  So much fun for role playing and sentence structures (“I want to be, I am a…) etc.

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This has in app purchases.  It is a 3D sticker book.  The stickers will make noises and some move once you set up the sticker book.  I like to work on labeling, following directions and identifying spatial concepts using this device.

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This is an app that I bought to use with my son.  It’s a set of spooky stories.  I’ve only listened to the first story with him-it has creepy music and a creepy storyline similar to ghost stories I would hear around the campfire.  What I noticed was that there is a lot of tier 2 vocabulary in the story.  If you work on vocabulary instruction with upper elementary/middle school, I’d definitely check this app out.
McClain Consulting Services, Inc

 

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This isn’t a Halloween themed app-but I found it when I was looking for new Halloween apps.  It’s a little wordy, but it has exercises you can work with to talk about positive self talk, being kind, and having better behavior…using monsters.  If you work with students with social thinking challenges and/or executive functioning.

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This was designed as a counting app, but I’ve used it as a duration map.  You find 5 ghosts at a time and place them in a haunted house.  Once the house is full, there is a “party” at the house with a lot of cause and effect interactions that is a good and motivating reward for students to work for.
BeanSprites LLC
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I love food apps.  This is a free app that allows you to create your own “spooky” lunch on a school lunch tray.  Fun to use as a reinforcer OR to work on descriptive language and labeling.
Toca Boca

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This is fun little app where you hide the boy in different parts of the house.  When someone walks through the room, you can make him jump up and yell “BOO!”  It’s fun to work on prepositions by talking about where the child is hiding-and my clients really enjoy working to play this app.

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