Language Adventures Pro5.0 - App Store

Language Adventures: A Contextual Speech & Language Journey
Transform your speech therapy sessions with Language Adventures! This innovative app takes the classic board game experience and elevates it into a powerful, research-based digital tool designed specifically for the iPad.

Language Adventures provides a first-of-its-kind contextual language intervention. Using vibrant, school-themed graphics and an engaging interface, students build essential language skills in areas critical for academic success, including categories, inferences, and wh-questions.

A Comprehensive Language Tool

Contextual Learning: Question targets are directly related to school-based themes-the Playground, Cafeteria, and Classroom-grounding therapy in real-world environments to enhance semantic connections and comprehension.

Three Levels of Difficulty: Targeted content curated for a wide range of students, from elementary through high school-aged learners.

Seamless Digital Gameplay: All the board game staples-player selection, dice rolling, and token moving-are reimagined and optimized for the iPad platform.

Advanced Goal Targeting: Work in adult-student pairs or groups to master flexible word use, synonyms, antonyms, multiple meanings, and descriptive naming.

Progress Tracking: Efficiently manage your caseload by saving specific student targets and monitoring progress over repeated play sessions.

Research-Based Intervention

Language Adventures is built upon proven educational research regarding vocabulary development and the use of context clues to increase overall language proficiency:

Targeted Vocabulary: Research indicates that targeting vocabulary facilitates reading comprehension and oral language skills (Dole, Sloan, and Trathen, 1995).

Thematic Strength: By providing context-based questions, Language Adventures assists children in strengthening word connections and developing meaningful concepts (Hickman, et al. 2004).

Meaningful Activities: Students are provided with activities related to their own experiences and encouraged to use student-friendly definitions, which are proven to enhance language production (Beck, et al., 2002).

Authored by: Nichole Hanneken Ontis, M.S., CCC-SLP
Danielle Sears, M.S., CCC-SLP

App Designers: Sean J. Sweeney
Barbara Fernandes

Take your students on a Language Adventure today!

Version History Modern User Interface: We’ve reimagined the app's look and feel with a vibrant, playful UI upgrade designed specifically for kids. Experience more colorful buttons and a cleaner layout that makes navigation a breeze.

Modernized Codebase: The entire app architecture has been updated to modern standards. By optimizing the underlying code, we've ensured smoother performance and full compatibility with the latest iPad models and iOS versions.

Enhanced Readability: We’ve overhauled the text display throughout the app. With new kid-friendly fonts, improved contrast, and multi-line support for questions and answers, reading and learning are now more accessible than ever.

Dynamic UI Elements: Enjoy a more fluid experience with programmatically generated interface components, replacing older assets for crisper visuals on high-resolution displays.

General Performance Improvements: We’ve polished the "behind-the-scenes" logic to ensure your language adventure continues to run smoothly, session after session. 5.0 Feb 19 Updates for iOS 12 4.0 12/21/2018 We have added some essential features:
1. Added the ability to have the answers read ( Turn it off on settings if you wish);
2. Updated loading screen
3. Reduced app size
4. Updated to iOS10 features 3.0 07/11/2017 Updating audio mismatch on Inferencing Level 1. 2.3 06/14/2015 1. Fixes crashes when trying to print the certificate
2. Fixes order of game pieces
3. Fixes editing players function
4. Adds bluetooth capabilities 2.2 11/10/2014 Add Custom Questions! We have added the ability to add custom questions to Language Adventures. Just access the settings to add new Custom Questions. 2.1 05/01/2014 We have some great updates for you on this version of Language Adventures! We would appreciate if you could take a couple minutes to write a review for us on iTunes.
- Added backup and restore from iTunes
- Now you can select the numbers allowed on the dice
- Turn on or off the visual or audio feedback
-Improved results page!
Thanks for your support!
Smarty Ears Team 2.0 04/20/2014 -Fixes font problem caused by iOS 7
- Added the ability to synchronize all players to TRC at once 1.5 09/30/2013 - New avatars
- Now compatible with TRC 1.3 01/28/2013 Fixes report bug 1.2.2 09/21/2012 -Addition of 3 new target areas with approximately 500 new questions in the areas of wh-questions, inferences, and categories.
-Option to mute background music.
-Directions regarding moving token are no longer presented repeatedly throughout game.
-Fixed bug preventing scoring item as incorrect in expressive mode.
-Interface improvements. 1.2.1 09/07/2012 -Fixes crashing on L1 1.0.1 04/13/2012 1.0 04/12/2012