Listening Power Preschool {App Review}

I’ve got several Hamaguchi apps loaded on my iPad for preschoolers. A few weeks ago they contacted me offering to let me try out their newest app, Listening Power Preschool HD, and I jumped at the chance! Today’s app was provided by the developer but the opinions here are all mine.

Listening Power Preschool HD provides nearly 1200 listening practice questions on an iPad! It’s developed for children ages 3-6 years old.

Listening Power Preschool is listed in the iTunes store for $15.99.

The app targets receptive language concepts and was designed for children with delayed language comprehension, AD/HD, weak listening or auditory processing, autism, and English language learners. Data collection in the app includes the ability to add groupsThere are 5 activities in the app:

Listening for Descriptions: Adjectives such as colors, big/little, happy/sad, clean/dirty, hold/cold, stripes, spots, soft/hard, round, square and more!

Listening for Directions: Concepts such as on, in, out, on, out, up, down, behind, line up, sit down, stop, underline, cross out, underline, and more!

Listening for Grammar & Meaning: plurals, verb tenses, pronouns, preposition concepts, and negation!

Listening for Stories with Pictures: A story is read with accompanying pictures and sound effects, followed by questions about the story such as who, what, and where questions.

Listening for Stories without Pictures: This activity is essentially the same as above, except the child is not shown pictures during the story. The child must stay focused and imagine the story, then answer simple questions about the story. An animation after the story shows some aspect of the story.

Features include: Easy, Intermediate and Advanced levels within each activity. Auto Advance/Drop makes the questions easier or more challenging, depending on your child’s choices; Bubble game included for a fun break; data collection, pop-up reward animations, individual and group play for up to 75 users; text on/off feature available to work on reading decoding and comprehension, options for 2, 3 or 4 choices to be shown.