Sounds Essentials is designed and developed to increase sound recognition and listening skills in children. The app has 4 engaging and beautiful activities, each of which is used to develop Auditory Discrimination skills in children.
Sounds Essentials enables young learners to differentiate between sounds of different objects. This function which is commonly known as “Auditory Discrimination” helps in building sound or “Auditory Memory” among students. The app has separate activities for both the functions enabling better sound recognition and listening skills. Children having problems in sequencing the sounds they hear during speech therapy sessions such as articulation & writing can benefit from the content based on Auditory Sequencing within the app.
This app is designed in collaboration with speech therapists, parents and teachers who are looking to expand children’s listening & sound discrimination skills. This app is intended for children of ages 2-8 years old.
With different Sound games children improve their skills by matching objects and their associated sounds.
WHY PARENTS AND TEACHERS LOVE THIS APP
- The app is fun, super easy to use for kids of all ages and all abilities
- Explore different sounds through flash cards containing real life images of everyday items and learn their sounds and appearance
- Different Sound games improve skills by matching objects and their associated sounds.
- You can turn individual features in different activities, ON or OFF and introduce features differently.
- Sounds are grouped into 6 selectable categories Animals, Machines, Nature, Actions, Transport and Instruments.
- Wrong answers do not interfere with gameplay.
The app has 4 engaging and beautiful activities.
- Know the Sound
- Match the Sound
- Find the Sound
- Sound Hunt
Know the Sound
As the name suggests, this activity is used for children to learn different sounds of items just by seeing the pictures. The activity has real pictures with natural voice for interactive learning.
You can also filter the sounds from 6 different categories i.e. Animals, Machines, Nature, Actions, Transport and Instruments. This helps a child to focus on any particular category of sounds they prefer or have a liking to and learn different sounds from any selected category.
Match the Sound
Matching is a fantastic activity to present the target sound in a game like style for more engagement. The child needs to listen to a sound, and try to find the sound from different cards.
The activity can be played in 3 different levels i.e. Easy, Hard and Difficult with each Level having different number of cards, hence increasing the difficulty level of the activity.
The matching activity can also be played in 2 modes. From activity settings, you can select either to hide or show matched items after matching is made. This helps in adjusting the activity, to how the child likes it with matching.
Find the Sound
Find the Sound is another auditory activity. This activity helps the student to improve their listening skills and to identify the correct sound among different targets.
After hearing the target sound, the child needs to tap the correct picture (among the presented set). You can hear the sound multiple times (by using the play button) in order to identify the exact item from the given pictures.
Sound Hunt
The Sound Hunt activity is another Game like activity, which helps a child in categorizing different sounds. The app allows a child to hear a Sound and then drag the sound picture to its correct category.
For categories like Animals, Machines, Nature, Actions, Transport and Instruments, the child is presented 3 categories randomly and then the child needs to drag and drop the given picture (of the sound heard) under the selected category.
Other features
Timer: The 3 activities i.e. Match the Sound, Find the Sound and Sound Hunt also present a Timer option which can be enabled/ disabled from activity settings (Enabled by default).
While playing any of these activities a user can record the time in which a child completes the activity. This helps in encouraging a child to do better with his sound recognition and listening skills
Multiple Users: You can create multiple Child/ student Profiles in the app and as each child practices his sounds in the app, the app allows you to save/ track each child/user’s times separately.
Leader board: You can use the Leader board option to view scores in detail for each user, for each activity.
For more help, information or suggestions please write to us at support@soundsessentials.com