Speech Therapy - Mio For Kids

I have a 4-year-old son, and we've been struggling with speech, especially with word endings. I found this app, and it turned out to be a perfect fit for him. One of the best things is that right after downloading, you can take a short survey to choose exercises tailored to your child. By the way, the app also has great puzzles and songs. It's colorful and very engaging for kids. I highly recommend it to all parents!

I am a licensed speech language pathologist and YOU SHOULD NOT GET THIS APP!!!! This app uses non speech oral motor exercise (i.e., a technique that does not require a child to produce a sound) which are unethical and SHOULD NOT BE DONE. There is countless articles and literature that state explicitly why these exercise are counterproductive and not an appropriate treatment for speech sound errors! Just google “non speech oral motor exercises” and the top results will be articles discussing why these strategies are not recommended. Do not fool yourself into thinking moving your jaw around, blowing, or sticking out your tongue will improve your child’s articulation or speech production. If you’re working on imitation skills, fine go ahead, BUT DO NOT USE THESE EXERCISES FOR ARTICULATION OR PHONOLOGICAL THERAPY!!! Furthermore, the app is highly inaccurate! It wasn’t even directed at my face and it gave me credit. This could help your child practice things INACCURATELY and could further impede your practice. Go to a licensed speech therapist that does their research and stay away from apps like this!

This application was recommended to me by my speech therapist. In order for the child to do the exercises given by our speech therapist in an interactive way. At first, I was skeptical of this and thought that we will do exercises without app. But my child is very hyperactive and didn’t want to repeat after me. But when he sees other children do exercises in the app he repeats enthusiastically. I liked how the exercises are sorted and we play 2 levels every day, it is 6 exercises. We are already at level 30 and I can see that my child has got better control of his tongue and cheeks. These exercises help him to pronounce words better. At the first level, he could not pronounce the word “computer”, and now he speaks the word as an adult. Thanks for such a great app.