SLP TechTools Minimal Pairs is a speech therapy app developed by speech-language pathologists to target phonological disorders in children, pre-Kindergarten through 6th grade.
NOTE: The application provides full functionality for Cluster Reduction - one of the eight processes - allowing you to fully test out the application and decide to purchase SLP Minimal Pairs Full, also available on the App Store.
The app includes fun and engaging pictures of 367 words to facilitate discrimination and accurate production of speech sounds. It covers 8 commonly used phonological processes: Final Consonant Deletion, Fronting, Cluster Reduction, Prevocalic Voicing Gliding, Stopping, Depalatalization, Deaffrication and Gliding.
As an In App Purchase, users can build custom processes with photos from their iPad Camera, Photo Library or Dropbox Account. Spoken word samples are recorded from the iPad.
Three practice formats include: auditory discrimination, contrast drill, and repetition drill. Progress monitoring in client history tracks improvement and allows users to observe improvement over multiple sessions.
The app gives the therapist maximum control of each session. All buttons are oriented near the therapist and away from the child. The pictures will not change nor will the voiced word repeat unless the therapist pushes the button.