Talk Tales: Simple Words

This Talk Tales app is for toddlers and children begin to imitate simple words, specifically to help children with childhood apraxia or an autism spectrum disorder.

Designed by a Speech-Language Pathologist with over 20 years of experience, this Talk Tales app, includes an interactive animated story (The Baby Bobby Book) created to help toddlers and children begin to imitate simple words. While this app will benefit all toddlers and children learning to say first words, it was designed based on motor learning theory to specifically to help children with childhood apraxia or an autism spectrum disorder. It includes 18 target sounds/words.

What’s special about the Talk Tales: Simple Words app?

• Interactive, animated story designed to engage the child in learning the target word/sound • Videos of how to produce the words • Animated story scenes. The target words are animated to encourage repetition. • Animated words • Music/songs to help with auditory processing. • Downloadable practice sheets corresponding with the app available through the app and at talktalesbooks.com • Multiple opportunities for repetition

Phonotactic word structures in this app: CV, C1V1C1V1, C1V1C1V2, CVC Target words within this story: *baby, bobby, happy, bed, mad, hug, baby bobby, yawn sound, aark aark, tweet tweet, boo, no no, waa waa, night night, mama, papa, ha ha, hee hee