Speech Production through WH questions with Talkido
Denver Public Schools
Denver, Colorado, USA
Speech-Language Pathologist
Brenna Lindleaf
2nd grade student
The user background
The Denver Public Schools serves for students from preschool to high school. The SLPs integrated the Talkido into speech/language sessions to support language communication engagement.
Challenge
The students with challenges of identification, discrimination and practicing on speech production.The SLPs looked for a way to aid the areas as follow:
How was Talkido implemented?
The Talkido has been implemented to answering WH questions with DIY cards.
The DIY cards are programmed with speech sounds and the student is asked to find the right picture.
When the picture has been found with Mio, the student is again asked to describe with couple of words or sentence.
Outcomes
Personalized Joyful Activities
Recording audio for individual DIY cards made the interaction more unique.
Endless Possibilities
Creating numerous games and methods widens the possible interactions.
Educator Testimonial
"After I programmed the Talkido Mio, there were many ways to implement it, and my student loved interacting with it, which significantly increased engagement."
Brenna Lindleaf
SLP at Denver Public Schools
