Speech Therapy App Interface – Charissa Flagg
The concept for this project was to create an app interface that would reiterate lessons learned during a speech therapy session. This app would allow parents to go back over activities with their child to have extra practice time outside of therapy sessions.
I wanted to produce an app interface that was different from all of the other phonics apps out there. I created imagery by assembling hand-drawn, cut out items that would correspond to sounds of the alphabet.
Currently the app includes letters A-J, colors, shapes and choices (“which do you like better”). I based the sounds and activities provided on actual speech therapy sessions that my daughter went through. One of her favorite activities was choosing between two different objects. This lesson is exclusively for getting new words in front of a child and allowing them to make decisions. I added this activity to my interface for those same reasons. I combined the shapes and colors activity so that it could be used to teach sales and colors concurrently or separately. I would eventually like to add a numbers activity as well.
Speech delayed children have such a difficult time communicating their needs and wants. As I found working with my daughter, practice helps immensely. Like many other children her age, she also loved to play with my iPad. The combination of those two things helped form my decision in designing this interface.
