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Ogden, Utah
July 30, 2022

The National Association for Child Development, an innovator in all aspects of child development since 1979, announced today the re-release of their very effective and successful app that addresses Childhood Apraxia of Speech/dyspraxia, as well as apraxia of speech in adults.

This very successful and fun tool has been used by parents, individuals, and speech therapists alike. With the Speech Therapy for Apraxia app, targeted speech therapy can now be accomplished on a daily basis right at home. Frequent application fulfills one of the basic requirements needed to trigger neuroplasticity and produce real change.
In keeping with NACD’s mission to provide affordable services and tools to families around the world, this comprehensive app is being made available for only $9.99

Speech Therapy for Apraxia app reflects NACD’s decades of international work with tens of thousands of children and their quest to find, develop, and utilize better and better tools to assist families in helping their children develop to their full potential.

Speech Therapy for Apraxia is one of a series of speech apraxia apps being re-introduced by the National Association for Child Development. These apps are developed by NACD’s team, including a certified speech-language pathologist.

“It was important to us to develop an app that parents can use at home for speech practice with their children, but that is also an effective tool for therapists. The emphasis of the app is the child’s production. The parent or therapist should be an active participant in order to provide the user with feedback, reinforcement, and additional modeling.” Lori Riggs, Speech-Language Pathologist at NACD.

This comprehensive app permits targeted application and includes the following features:

• The user can choose from 8 different consonant groups- a total of 19 consonant sounds.
• Customization permits the user to practice at a chosen level within each group.
• Detailed instructions describe how to choose appropriate groups and levels.
• Moves through a progression of 8 levels for speech motor planning.
• There are illustrations and audio provided for each syllable.
• Includes options that permit the user to repeat levels, reset, or move to the next level.
• Can be used as a straight articulation drill for specific phonemes.
• Simple enough for a parent or adult user to progress through by themselves, but comprehensive enough for a therapist to incorporate into their targeted program.

The app is not intended for independent use by children.

“For decades we at NACD have had the goal to educate and assist both parents and professionals in order to develop and modify present therapeutic interventions. Successful application of neuroplasticity requires targeted high frequency, preferably daily intervention, to achieve desired outcomes. Part of our mission has been to develop systems and tools to assist in accomplishing this goal.” Bob Doman, Founder and Director of NACD.

About NACD

The National Association for Child Development is a unique organization with a distinctive family centered approach to child development. Founded in 1979 by Bob Doman, NACD has worked internationally to help tens of thousands of families remediate developmental issues and enhance the development and global function of their children. NACD has developed an approach to human development, the achievement of human potential, and the remediation of developmental, educational, and neurological problems that is based on the gestalt of the whole individual and an understanding of neuroplasticity. The efficacy of NACD’s Targeted Developmental Intervention has been demonstrated with the full range of individuals, from comatose to gifted.

NACD designs comprehensive targeted interventions that are implemented by family and caregivers within the home on a daily basis, supported and overseen by NACD’s staff of professionals and coaches. NACD has evaluation sites around the United States and internationally.

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With Christmas right around the corner, we are all trying to figure how to get gifts that are really worth getting for our children. When it comes to larger ticket items, it is hard to beat an iPad for usefulness and continued relevance. This is not a gadget that will get put away, but rather a device that can continue to be altered to fit changing needs, changing attention spans, and changing processing levels. This is why we like it so much.

It is hard to beat a device that can review modular math in a way that is actually fun and can also review algebra operations in a way that is pretty fun as well. It can also review telling time or making change, as well as quiz math fact—all in a way that looks a lot like play. With this device we can do language photos, receptive language cards, math fact review, math process reviews, analogies for SAT review, and Critical Reading for the SAT, as well as animal flashcards that are real photos and make the sound of each animal, bird songs, white noise to help your child sleep, a virtual piano keyboard, number tracing, Science flashcards for middle school and elementary school students, virtual tours of European cities, star charts that show your own bit of the universe, and more, and more, and more. It can coach your child until he or she is ready for a 5K.

I have to admit that I was a skeptic, being more of a Barrel-of-Monkeys person myself. I am not generally a lover of electronic devices for my kids or for yours. The huge benefit here is that the children love the device, and I can keep changing it to fit the child’s needs. So if I start out teaching the child to talk and to identify common things, I can use apps for that. Then if I am trying to help the child string more words together, I can use apps for that. Then as I’m teaching the child to read, I can use apps for that. As I add math concepts, I can use apps for that. If I follow this child all the way up to college, there will continue to be apps I can use that will both help and entertain the child, while we reach our goals.

Now the other handy thing is that you, the parent, can have your own folder with apps to make you happy. There are workout apps, recipe apps, flight tracking apps, and a great word dictionary app that I keep on hand. So it isn’t all Angry Birds (although there are quite a few parents out there who have that one).

To use it to the best advantage, change the apps frequently. Many of them are free, and others are often a dollar. We recommend adding new apps and hiding some old ones each week. You will see your child pay renewed attention to this new input. Kid Calc and a few others may stay on for a while, but many can be circulated in and out of use. Interact with your child and the iPad. This will help ensure that your child is not stimming on an app and is interacting with it appropriately. It also helps to ensure that you are getting the most out of the app.

As technology advances there seem to be many new and high-intensity learning opportunities coming our way. Where was all of this fun stuff when I was trying to get my kids to remember math facts? Be that as it may, I am delighted to see it arrive now. So whether your child needs help to pronounce a long “e” sound or help to get high scores on the SAT, this may really help.

There will always be a place for barrels of monkeys and little wind-up horses in the life of children. We still need balls to bounce and slides to climb, books to read, and pencils.

As a supplement to learning, however, this iPad is hard to beat.

NACD Newsletter, Volume 4 Issue 6, 2011 ©NACD

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