Talk About It: Objects Home HD

I am a home health pediatric speech-language pathologist and I own and regularly use Hamaguchi apps with my patients. This is a great app for older kiddos. It is easy to use and it is well designed.

I used this app for my speech language students pre k to 2nd. They were not engaged in the lesson, it would be better if the content were more picture based and more engaging for younger students. The format would be better for older students however most older students already have these skills. Overall the content and format are mismatched.

I love this app. I've used it with groups of first graders, including a student with ASD. I want all students to respond to each object described so I made pinch cards with the same numbers as the sentences. I prompted with "Is that true? If it is, then pinch the number. Listen to the next sentence. If the next sentence has more important details, pinch that number", and so on. After all sentences were heard, the students then pinched the number of the sentence that had the most true and important details. It teaches them to process language and determine quality answers with main details compared to unimportant details.