BITS Lab - staRt

I am a speech therapist and I use this app every single week to help my clients remediate their R sounds. It has helped tremendously, especially with older kids, adults, and treatment resistant cases. It is such a gift to have a free app to help people learn to pronounce this tricky sound!

My favorite part of this app is the visual feedback for correct vs. incorrect R production. Especially for my older elementary kids who are starting to lose motivation to keep coming to speech, having the visual feedback shows them if they’re correct or incorrect without making me the bad guy. It has also motivated them to keep trying because they can see that they are able to produce the R correctly. Using this app in sessions has been a game changer for these students, and I’m now confident that we’ll be able to wrap up speech before they’re off to Jr. High!

I have been waiting for something like this, and I’m very excited to use it with my students! It could be invaluable to many clinicians and their students. Thank you! I know that each individual’s /r/ can look a little different based on a number of factors, but I’d love to see an approximate “target” on the screen for them to try to match. On the tutorial, it is useful to see the usual patterns of sounds to compare to our own productions, and this would be useful during “free play” or other activities, as well. I think some of my students are having a hard time interpreting the ever-moving waves.