Parents' Guide to ConversationBuilder

App iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad Paid Education
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Common Sense Media Review

By ADK AccessAbility , based on child development research. How do we rate?

age 6+

Great practice for kids who struggle with social exchanges.

Parents Need to Know

Why Age 6+?

Any Positive Content?

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Privacy Rating Pass

  • Unclear whether personal information is sold or rented to third parties.
  • Unclear whether personal information are shared for third-party marketing.
  • Unclear whether this product displays personalised advertising.
  • Unclear whether data are collected by third-parties for their own purposes.
  • Unclear whether this product uses a user's information to track and target advertisements on other third-party websites or services.
  • This evaluation did not assess whether this product creates and uses data profiles for personalised advertisements.
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What's It About?

Kids practice conversations with virtual peers in typical social situations. Given a photo of a social setting, they pick one of three sentences that would be most appropriate socially, record it, listen to a response, and continue through the conversation in the same way with up to eight exchanges. When kids select the right answer, a green record button pops up under the photo, and the correct sentence is left alone above the photo. Kids record the sentence, and then they have the option of listening to their voices or going to the next set of sentences. Conversation topics include a base conversation module, animals, friends around town, holidays, playground, water, and winter.

Is It Any Good?

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The modules in CONVERSATIONBUILDER are very appealing and easy to use. Kids like the bright photos and the feedback of their recorded conversations. They interact with the device and with each other when it's used in a group, so there's more social learning going on than conversation alone.

In addition to the built-in modules, you can set up customized conversations for kids. You'll make a list of the kids who will be practicing and note who will start the conversation. Then choose to use the app's stock photos or to import your own to further customize the experience or to add some of the diversity that the app's included photos lack. Kids take turns recording their parts of the conversation related to the photo. They can replay what has been recorded at any time. Parents or therapists will want to replay each conversation and help kids analyze whether it was successful and why or why not.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about transitions. Create a group conversation with family members describing a difficult transition that is both conversation and social story.

  • Practice a conversation one-on-one with kids and then construct a similar conversation without the device to help generalize the skill.

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