Casa VPP

## Description

This App was developed to facilitate the practice of sound production among Spanish-speaking children who have trouble with articulation. This App is designed to help Spanish-speaking children with articulation delays.

Developed by bilingual speech-language pathologists with over 15 years of combined experience working with children in various cultural populations (CLD) in the school and other clinical settings.

App is very user-friendly--easy for parents, teachers, caregivers, and educators

All 18 consonants in the Spanish language (m, b, p, k, l, w, f, y, t, n, d, g, ñ, r, ch, x, s, rr) are featured, as well as the following 7 phonological process: Initial Consonant Deletion (ICD), Final Consonant Deletion (FCD), Stopping, Consonant Cluster Reduction (CCR), Weak Syllable Deletion (WSD), Fronting, Prevocalic Voicing (PVV).

Users can select sounds by placement : initial, medial, *final, *blends (*when applicable).

Slides include over 1400 colorful, child-friendly images
Multiple student/user profiles can be added and data is collected/tracked over time.

Sounds are targeted in words, phrases, and sentences
Meaningful sentences are great for reinforcing adequate sentence structure.

All audios include production of Spanish language in clear, naturalistic voice throughout.

Collected data can be easily emailed to teachers, parents, SLPs. Tallied data is automatically converted to percentages, and is ready to email.

Colorful animations for positive reinforcement.

Option to record sound practice and play back voice.
All target sounds are highlighted.

Option to randomize placement of sounds (i.e. initial, medial, final, blends).

App is a great way for SLPs to assign homework practice to ensure and encourage carry over.

Easy way to establish baselines and measure progress during articulation assessments.

No need to use paper to document accuracy!

Extremely convenient and compact--allows for artic practice on-the-go.

Option to turn off English translation text on slides.

Encourages self-monitoring and generalization/carry over.

Editing student profiles (adding/removing) is fast and easy.

App encourages use of expanded sentence structure, and increases vocabulary knowledge and exposure.