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Kea Kids: Preschool Games 2-5+ 4+
Learn Words: Speech & Reading
Kea Kids Games
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
iPad Screenshots
Description
LEARN WITH PLAY USING THEMES THAT KIDS LOVE
Combine words to create 2 and 3 word phrases and make the scenes come to life with cars and bugs! Explore 35 word buttons about cars, bugs, and opposites. Great for speech therapy, early talkers and readers.
FEATURES
- Build 2 and 3 word phrases
- Understanding and using opposites
- 35 high interest vocabulary words about cars and bugs
- Learn about bridges, tunnels, hills, and roads.
- Great for early talkers and early readers, ages 1-5
- Encourages free, imaginative word play, with no rules or limits
- Explore at your own pace with positive reinforcement when words are combined
- A First-Steps AAC app, great for Speech Therapy, Autism, and Apraxia
Kids gain a functional understanding of concepts through real usage during play.
WHAT KIDS LEARN
For Early Talkers:
High interest word buttons are great for exploring and learning new words! Kids can create their own phrases using simple opposites which leads to great learning.
For Early Readers:
Kids learn to read and use high interest nouns and simple action words to create their own phrases. You can support your child’s reading by talking about the letters and letter sounds when reading the words together.
For Late Talkers:
Just like speech therapy, we target high interest nouns and action words to encourage kids to practice speech and play with the words in different 2 and 3 word phrases combinations.
This is especially useful for kids with apraxia, and motor planning difficulties.
For Non Verbal Kids:
Some kids can communicate more easily using an AAC app, Cars & Bugs has been designed to be used as a First-Steps AAC to help kids learn to communicate using a device.
ABOUT KEA KIDS
We’re a small team who are making hand crafted apps to help kids learn through play. Kea Kids is located in the beautiful South Island of New Zealand.
What’s New
Version 1.6
Hello 2024!
A special update today that we have been working on for awhile:
1. Settings for Background Music, and Claire's Party Mode.
2. Also in Settings, Claire can now say short Gestalt phrases like "Let's Go!", and "What's Next?"
3. On the Phrase Box, you can now tap on individual words to repeat them.
Enjoy, and thank you for all your support and reviews,
Kea Kids
Ratings and Reviews
Adorable and Educational
The art and animation for all the different animals and vehicles makes for an engaging and entertaining interactive learning experience. Kids can practice building short phrases without getting overwhelmed, and I particularly liked that there are so many little critters to discover and unlock. This is a great app for any kid that benefits from a visual aid when it comes to speech therapy, but especially considerate of those who may be on the spectrum or have other learning disabilities.
EDIT: The Spring ‘world’ is my new favorite, and perfect for color learning. I’m excited to see what new expansions come out next!
Developer Response ,
Hi Caitlyn — thanks so much for taking the time to review our app! 🤩 We're delighted that you enjoyed the art style and animation.
Our goal is to make the language learning experience fun and engaging for kids, so I'm glad you were able to discover all the little things around the play scenes.
Many thanks for your time and feedback,
Kea Kids Games
An SLPs Dream App
I am a Speech and Language Pathologist who works with a lot of kiddos who are just learning basic communication skills. This app is amazing! It has been so engaging for my students! I’ve used it primarily with my kiddos on the spectrum and my AAC users. I’ve been able to target basic concepts and core words (e.g., go, stop, on, under, up, down) as well as helping to increase MLU (e.g., go up the hill, green flower, boat go under the bridge). I would HIGHLY recommend this app and hope they develop more apps like it!!
Developer Response ,
Hello, and thank you so much for your review. We originally created this app for our daughter with this in mind, so it truly does mean a lot to us to read such a fantastic response. We strongly believe there is a huge potential to expand how assisted communication can be expanded, and we wanted to blend the parts of AAC into something that is also fun and enjoyable for kids to practice speech. Thank you for taking the time to illustrate the parts of the app that have been useful to you as an SLP, that was absolutely amazing to read.
We are currently working on extending this app and have plans to develop more. If you're interested, we would love to get feedback from an SLP perspective! (We can be contacted directly at db@keakidsgames.com)
Upcoming changes are for customizing what Claire says when you tap her, this will allow an SLP (or parent) to choose what phrases she will say, and a fun new food scene that targets verbs plus food vocab.
App Privacy
The developer, Kea Kids Games, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
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Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Kea Digital Limited
- Size
- 223.4 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+, Made for Ages 0–5
- Copyright
- © 2022 Kea Digital Limited
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Spring - Colors and Bunnies $0.00
- Hill & Tunnel Pack +8 Vehicles $3.99
- Tunnel - Opposites: In and Out $1.99
- Cars Pack - 8 new vehicles $2.99
- Hill - Opposites: Up and Down $1.99