You can use this app for promoting language skills and vocabulary. For those of you feeling a little adventurous you can even make a movie as you move the items around the screen. You can also pick from your own photos and add various pieces of provided objects and crafting materials to your photo (see how non-crafty I am based on the photo below).
This application allows you to create scenes by selecting from various background options and pieces of craft that go with the theme. Art Maker by ABC’s Play School ( $0.99) – Prepositions, vocabulary and more. Here are some of my favorite apps for fun, creative, and open language based therapy sessions:ġ. Today’s post is dedicated to all my fellow speech therapists and teachers who lack “craftiness” and want to be crafty on the iPad! Blessed be the iPad! I didn't even own an iPhone while in graduate school (and the iPad was still years from being invented). I know what you are thinking… "What about the iPad?”. In graduate school, I appealed to my technophile side to create my sessions around my computer. I clearly was not capable of such a thing! Oh, and of course there are the scrap-booking SLPs! Clearly, I had no idea that SLPs had to dedicate hours preparing meals, buying scrap-booking materials and other tools for various “crafty therapy sessions”. Yes, I did question my ability to become a speech therapist when I saw one of my colleagues bring the cupcakes she had baked at home along with all these amazing cupcakes decorations for the session. During my days in graduate school I struggled a lot with the fact that many of my peers were able to spend hours creating these amazing therapy activities with glue and various types of paper. It is no secret I have never been a crafty person.