It’s been forever since I’ve done an app review, so I am really excited to share this new one from Luke over at Home Speech Home! What’s the Pic? Artic is their newest app which is designed to help students practice their articulation skills.
You can add player profiles with their name a picture…you can choose to take a pic from your phone or used preloaded emoticons (which my kids thought were hilarious). 
Once you create a profile, you choose the target sound. You can scroll through each phoneme, which includes vocalic /r/ and /s, r, l/ blends, then choose the position to target. Then you are ready to play!
There is a photograph hidden by different stickers, which your students are trying to figure out. The target picture is presented below their profile and various number of stars…these indicate how many times the student is to say the target word, which can be from 1 to 5 times. Each time the student says the word, the one star will light up. You will use the green check and red x to keep data on their productions. Once they say the word the designated number of times, a sticker will be removed from the picture! If the student wants to take a guess at any time, they can tap the green button at the bottom of the picture to attempt to name the picture.
Once all the stickers are removed, or if the student guesses the picture correctly, the full photo appears.
The app keeps data for each student and you can easily access their progress, add notes, and email the data directly from the app.
Here’s what I loved:
- Engagement… my older students really liked this app and the challenge of trying to figure out what the hidden picture was
- Targets…I like how I could target specific vocalic /r/ patterns
- Tons of practice…This app got me over 50 trials with each student that used it
- Data collection…I always love an app that will let me collect data easily and store it for later access
- Groups…You can use this app with more than one student at a time
- Price…considering all the sounds included, the price of this app is great at $4.99
- Devices…I can use it on my iPad and iPhone
Other takeaways:
- I wish I cold target more than one phoneme or position at a time.
- Some of the pictures were hard to guess for my primary kids, so it wasn’t an app I would use with younger students
- The integration of the microphone was both good and bad…it allowed for lots of practice and the kids liked the stars lighting up, but sometimes it was hard to pick up their words (probably because of my iPad case). Also, if I said anything it counted as a production, so I had to get used to waiting until the student finished the trials before giving feedback.
- You must keep data in the app to move on to the next picture, and I wish I had the option to turn that off if I want.
Overall, I am so glad to have this app in my toolbox! I think it is something new and different for my students to use in their articulation therapy that they liked using. You can find What’s the Pic? Artic on iTunes for $4.99
You can also enter to win one of FIVE copies via the rafflecopter below! Good luck!
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Thanks for the review. I have been wanting to check this app out! I like Home Speech Homes other resources and apps a lot!
I would love to try this out in my articulation groups when we do centers! Looks very fun! Thanks for the great review!!
Looks like a fun artic app! Thanks for the review
This app looks like a fun artic app! Thanks!
This looks like a great app to use with my older students working on artic. I work with K-12, so it’s beneficial to have apps for the middle/high school ages.
I love that I can used this for mixed groups. I can have students using inferencings skills to guess what the hidden picture is while I can have students practicing their sounds at the same time! Looks like a great app!
I love using apps as a few-minutes-left-in-the-session time filler. The kids see it as a reward for working hard.
This looks like a fun addition to my techie artic resources. So great for those intervention kiddos who I work with for a few minutes outside their classrooms!
This would be great to use with my older students when they are “too cool” for speech crafts and activities. It would also be great for working on independence and carryover skills with producing speech sounds correctly.
I’ve seen so many reviews for this app already! I’ll definitely have to invest in one if I don’t win’
This would be great with my older students! Always look for new and quick ways to target sounds and keep in interesting.
This would be a great motivator (to use the ipad) for my older students.
I would love this app!!
Great review. It’s always awesome finding new ways to work on artic and integrating technology!
I would use this with older elementary aged students. It looks fun and like it would be very motivating for them. I love that you can get a lot of trials with it and use it with groups!
I love new apps for speech! I’ll have to look at getting this one for my kids!
Because I work not only in elementary, but high school as well, this app sounds like the perfect addition to my therapy tools!
I think my kids would really like this! More fun than just artic cards/ go fish haha 🙂
I think this would be a great app to use as I am a traveling SLP. It’s sometimes easier to grab my iPad than to go thru a variety of boxes of artic cards.
I LOVE HomeSpeechHome apps. This one looks like a unique approach to artic. therapy, which would be a nice change for my students.
What a fun way to practice target sounds with upper elementary kids. Thanks for the detailed review and raffle, Jen!!