Child-friendly app helps correct speech sound disorders in young children

Kate Beckett is the founder of Ultimate Speech Sounds, a soon-to-be launched app that helps correct speech sound disorders in children.

It’s at this point that speech therapists typically enter the frame and Beckett’s app is designed as a resource for them to use in their practices. It also enables them to interact with the child’s parents, as doing the prescribed remedial exercises consistently and correctly at home is central to correcting any disorder.

Beckett has worked as a speech therapist in the UK, New Zealand and Ireland and found that similar sound disorders crop up wherever children are learning English. There are apps out there to help but none offer a voice with an Irish accent. It was this deficit that inspired Beckett to think about developing an alternative.

Most existing apps show a floating mouth and tongue and young children have difficulty associating what they’re seeing with their own anatomy. With Dara, the child can see how the avatar is forming the sound from a front and a side view. They also hear the sounds spoken correctly and copy the position of the avatar’s mouth to improve their pronunciation.

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