Smarty Ears is the techy SLP’s best friend! They’ve created another wonderful app to spice up your articulation therapy with their new app Articulation Scenes. Smarty Ears shared a code for me and one for a lucky SRN follower! The opinions in this review are mine. 
Articulation Scenes is an app designed to target 1200 practice words using 72 scenes. The app provides opportunities to target articulation targets without the flashcard feel of most apps! 
 Based on scenes, Articulation Scenes provides numerous opportunities for children to pronounce their sounds more clearly. The therapist can enter student’s information in order to collect data over time. Once a student’s information is entered the app prompts the therapist to select a consonant sound [ p, m , h, w, n, b, d, y, t, k , g, ng, f, ch, j , l , r, v, s, z, sh, th] to target. 
There is one scene per sound per position. One of favorite elements is the attention to the /r/ phoneme. Instead of just one post vocalic scene there is one scene per each separate type of /r/ : [ pre-vocalic, blends, air, ar, ear, ire, or, rl ]. Can we all just give a sigh of relief!? Those vocalic /r/ sounds are so needed for my caseload! 
Each scene contains 4 separate activities: 1.Find the hidden items: Allows children the opportunities to listen to targeted words and find them on each scene. 2.Tap and say it: Children tap on the items on the scene, which are isolated allowing the therapist to track and monitor their productions. 3.The movie theater: Children get the opportunity to listen to a story using the target words. 4.The production room: This is the activity that allows children to either create their own stories, record them and continue to practice 
The app includes data tracking capabilities and a rewards shelf for each child. The developers have also added homework sheets containing the words included on each scene that can be sent home for further practice. Â This could be a huge timesaver for you! The app is focused on articulation, but can easily be used to simultaneously target language skills. Syntax can easily be targeted in the labeling activity by using sentences. The movie theater and production room are great for language skills including organization, narration and syntax. Target inferences by giving clues for the item you want them to find and say. Target fluency skills during both reading and spontaneous generation of sentences. Limitations: The app can only be used with one student at time and only with one sound at a time. Not ideal if you’re looking for an app for larger therapy groups. I used carrier phrases to get around this limitation of the app. The other feature I would change with the app deals with ease of movement in the app. Once you click on an activity (ie: Tap & Say It), there is no feature to go back the activity selection page. You must start from the home page. I would love if updates allowed therapist to more quickly move from one activity to another for the same sound with a child. Sounds great right?! I am so excited to be giving away a copy of this great app! The app is currently for sale for $34.99 but will be regularly priced at $49.99. Â Enter the rafflecopter below! Goodluck! I will pick a winner Saturday! a Rafflecopter giveaway
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Hi Jenna! This looks like a great app! I really loved your Preschool Pirates blog entry. I think there are so many fantastic ideas in that post. I’m definitely looking forward to using some of those activities next year with my preschoolers!
-Brea
http://www.letstalkslp.blogspot.com
I enjoyed the inference ideas post!
I can’t choose a favorite! All of your material ideas.
I lost my post, so I’ll start again! Oh my goodness, Jenna–I would so LOVE this app so I wouldn’t have to transport so many worksheets and card decks from school to school and room to room–just to find I’d like to try a sound I didn’t bring the ‘stuff’ for!! My favorite Speech Room News posts are when you give us the heads up about an app that is free for a limited time, or when you give us downloads for preschool units for language lessons.
I am a graduate student and spent hours looking through a bunch of stuff on your blog last night for my new round of clients starting this week. I really can’t choose one, this blog is incredibly helpful!
My favorite post was the speech graffiti. I did it with my students and they had so much fun!
I like your Angry Birds conversation starters! You have soooo many wonderful and fresh ideas! Thank you for sharing!
I haven’t had a chance to go back and read so no favorite yet.
Thanks for the review and the chance to win the app! I don’t have an artic app!
I left my comment before I clicked on “leave a comment” so I didn’t see the part about a favorite blog post! Wow! I wouldn’t know which one to pick. There are so many wonderful ones and you do such a great job writing! I made Language Pinwheels after reading that post!
I have gotten so many awesome therapy ideas from your blog so I love them all! But if I had to pick a favorite I would have to say, Anatomy of the Speech Room.
I love the Wh questions cars UNO game post!
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I love that you are honest with your recommendations for Apps. I loved your under the sea bags – Made some and the kids loved them!
Better Hearing and Speech Month postings!
I love all your materials you giveaway! Very creative!
There’s no way I could pick just one favorite…they’re all great! I do like the app and materials reviews though, they’re very helpful 🙂
I loved your post about the Tapikeo app and how you used the Pediastaff’s pinterest pages of images. It was such a great idea! I immediately downloaded the app and used it with students who were working on past tense verbs. They loved it!
Hi Jenna, thanks for sharing the Artic Scenes app. My all-time favorite post is the one about TAP LIGHTS. I love the it’s mult-sensory. Gretchen C.
Hey Jenna! Thank you (and SMARTY EARS!) for providing this giveaway! I would have to say my STUDENTS’ favorite activity that you’ve posted would be the angry birds. They still requested it until the last day of school 🙂
I love all the free material posts. My kids at school love your games!
I love all of your free printables throughout all of your posts…so hard to pick just one! I also like any references to the EET. Any new ways to use it are greatly appreciated:)
One of my favorite posts was how to use Tapikeo to make picture boards to be used in tx. I also love all of the printables that you provide! I’m jealous of your creativity! 🙂
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It’s not just difficult to choose my favorite of all your shared materials and ideas, it’s IMPOSSIBLE!!!! The one uppermost in my mind right now is everything in the “Angry Birds” theme. My students have absolutely loved your activities! I was even able to motivate a 3rd grader who feels he is ready “to be done of Speech” (his words!). Thank you, Jenna!!
It’s hard to pick a favorite. I use all your ideas. You are so creative. I recently used the articulation cariboo. I found the game at a resale shop for $3. The kids love the game!!!
You have shared many great ideas that it’s difficult to pick, but my favorite would be the shopping list activity. My students had such a great time doing this activity including the 6th graders who are hard to motivate! Thanks for all your work!
I can’t narrow down which Speech Room News post I like the best as they are all so well written and informative. Two that were loved by my students were Articulation Toss Across and Articulation Cariboo. They are great and my students love the activities. I also love the free downloads. Thanks for all you do to help our profession.
My favorite post was the Angry Birds war game. I mostly work with very needy preschoolers, so I couldn’t use it much with them.. But, I did see a few school aged students. I had one student in particular that really didn’t like therapy at the beginning of the year. After we started working together he started liking it more and more and then when I introduced the angry birds war game he looooved doing therapy. Our deal was that he had to do 5 activities of my choosing and then we could play war. Little did he know we were still working on language skills during the game.
My other favorite was the articulation caribou. I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet, but hopefully I will next year! I will be laminating over the summer to get ready!
It’s a toss up between the inferences and Bazinga posts. However I do plan on combining them for therapy!
Ditto….I love all your posts, especially the freebies. My fav would have to be the materials for “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.” I love using books in therapy.
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I loved the monster inferencing activity!
We really enjoy using all of your ideas at our Preschool site. All of your ideas for princesses work great with our little girls, and even some boys too! And both our boys and girls enjoy the spiderman activities. We check your site daily! Thanks for sharing such wonderful ideas!
We love the Angry Birds bowling game. We like to use it across age ranges (Pre-K to first grade) and it is a great motivator! Thanks for sharing your wonderful ideas!
Your reviews help me decide which apps to invest in, thanks!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Angry Birds War game! More importantly my kids do too. I had to pick up another therapist’s caseload for a week during summer school and using this game was easy and could cover a range of needs. Thank you for all of your wonderful activites.
I loved the Angry Birds post!
I love your book+activity posts. I used “In the Tall, Tall Grass” as a final project for my preschoolers in special education so they had something to practice at home over the summer.
I love your posts! I really liked the Fineas and Ferb game because one of my students with Asperger’s is obsessed and he loved it.
Rebecca
gloworm693@hotmail.com
So many to choose from…..hmmmm. I will have to say angry birds conversation starters 🙂
I love the /r/ types on this app!
This is my favorite blogpost, obviously! Especially if I win the copy of the app! 😉
I have used a lot of the pirate ideas! The preschoolers LOVE those…
I’m new to your blog – so no “favorite” as of yet. Looking forward to reviewing your posts and finding one 🙂
I love all the materials you post with current themes. Several of my students have really enjoyed the Fineas and Ferb cards. I also like the pirate themed activities. Thank you for sharing so much!
Love all of the free peintables. But my favorite has to be the “Bazinga. Using card decks in a new way” post. My daughter cracks up every time she hears the word “Bazinga”. 🙂
I love the idea of using the AFHV app in language therapy!
My favorites posts have been using AFHV and the angry birds activities- my kids loved them!
There have been so many great post that I don’t think I can pick just one. I just love to come to this blog to get fresh ideas to do in therapy. Thank you for all that you post.
Thanks for all the great Speech Room News. I have been interested in the post on the game Cariboo, and have been looking at garage sales for it. (I just picked up “Duck, Duck, Bruce” and “Feed the Kitty” at a garage sale for $2 each, and they are going to make great reinforcement games, especially for k and g sounds! 🙂
I enjoyed your speech and language pinwheels! My students ask to play with them all the time.
Having another Speechie’s ideas and opinions on the same materials and techniques is rewarding and educational! 🙂
Thanks for sharing all your materials!
I bought “Lids and Lizards” a year ago, and I haven’t used it in a long time. The “Lids and Lizards” review reminded me of that game, and I loved all of the new suggestions of different ways to use the game. Thank you!
too many to pick from, but I am partial to the food-themed ideas like Grammar Sweets, Pronoun Icecream cone and and the Snack Tray idea….I like these ideas b/c they fit with the theme of my site http://www.speechsnacks.com Kids love anything food related and it’s such a great way to teach so many concepts. thanks for all your fine work!!
I love so much of your info that it’s hard to pick a favorite!
love the angry bird stuff! I’ve passed your link for it on several times!
Angry Birds was one of my favorites and my preschoolers enjoyed it too!
Love your blog! So many great ideas. I like the language pinwheels so much – so flexible & adaptable. I also copied your speech graffiti for BHSM.
I love your Very Hungry Caterpillar ideas!! And a whole bunch more too!
I enjoy the practical uses of apps posts you make!
I have been looking for your review of this app. It seems like a good one. I am especially pleased with the fact that there are vocalic /r/’s as I tend to need those a lot.
I really love your app reviews.
I can’t think of a favorite. I’ve been so excited to see your blog posts ever since I found you. They are all great and inspire me to be an even better SLP
Oh goodness.. picking just ONE would be soooo hard. I LOVED your posts about the organization of your therapy room. Those really gave me some great ideas on how to tweak my own “closet” hahaha.
I loved the inferencing ideas…so did my students! You have so many great ideas that I can’t wait to try out!
I love all your ideas! But my kids love the angry birds game!
It is very difficult to choose a fave, your ideas and freebies have been a life saver for me! Thank you so much for doing the blog and posting these great ideas – love them all!!
I’m new to your blog. My kids love angry birds (and my husband has become addicted). You have some great ideas that I can’t wait to try.
Hard to pick a favorite but I am loving all ideas for articulation. I am a graduate student just starting clinic, thank you for all the wonderful ideas!
I enjoy so many of your posts…I love the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches…so versatile.
I loved your popcorn activities (and so many others)!
I totally love all your activity ideas!!! The post about making activity boards from pinterest was really great though – so quick and easy to make an interactive activity on the iPad with personalised targets.
I loved your uno games!! my kids love them!
I have to agree with Delle…I’m a Pinterest whore…and an App Whore…I love using pictures from pinterest and the boards from Pediastaff to build boards for my kiddos 🙂
My kids love all of the Angry Birds activities! Thanks so much!
Mahalo nui for all of your posts! My Friday office days are always filled with lots of treasures and tips!
There are so many fantastic things
That it passed the 2000 like mark.. Woot Woot !!
Any of your organization blogs….staying organized is hard!!!!
Thank you so much for sharing all your clever ideas with us!
My cousin recommended this blog and she was totally right keep up the fantastic work!
AIR Graffiti
This new app sounds wonderful. I would love to get a copy!