Parents' Guide to

Scene Speak

By Dana Anderson, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 6+

Useful creation tool can help with vocabulary, expression.

App iPad Paid Education
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What’s It About?

SCENE SPEAK opens into the Visual Screen Display (VSD) Library containing pre-made visual pages: Park, Child's Bedroom, Doctor's Office, and more. Tap on one, and the page opens to reveal items inside that room or details of a diagram. Tap on My Books and "edit mode" to create a book or VSD. You can also edit existing VSD pages and add audio. Read the help section (or the tutorial on the website for easier viewing) before trying to create a book. Scene Speak is not intuitive on the creating (Edit Mode) side, but the Play Mode is very easy to use. It can be a useful tool for creating flash cards, pages, and books to help kids learn vocabulary and self-expression.

Is It Any Good?

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For parents who want to customize sequences of images, books, photo albums, and more for their kids, Scene Speak may be just the right app. There's a 32-page tutorial that is essential reading to get the most out of the features and to make VSDs (pages) that will be effective. Settings include being able to record your own voice or your kid's voice, using prerecorded text-to-voice, or not using audio at all. The "hot spot" feature is particularly helpful in highlighting details of a page for kids to tap and hear specific words. For the price, it would be nice to see more on-screen prompts or a video tutorial, rather than wading through such a long written help section. Still, with a bit of patience, Scene Speak can become a go-to tool to create books and pages to help your kid learn vocabulary, social stories, and more.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Encourage kids to tap on the hot spots that you create and repeat the words they hear.

  • Record audio of your kids to make a photo book in which they can hear themselves saying key words.

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