Creating Interactive Games & Environments with Talkido
Eureka City Schools
Eureka, CA, USA
Speech-Language Pathologist
Alysha Simoni
ECE
The user background
Eureka City Schools offer an on-campus Speech and Language Pathology program, ensuring that children with identified needs receive appropriate services without being separated from their peers.
Challenge
The Talkido system is integrated into classroom activities by creating interactive games. These activities happened weekly with 20 students, 40 minutes for each of them.
How was Talkido implemented?
Talkido DIY cards and tags attached to toys and materials and ECE students asked questions to find the right item.
In different role-play sessions, Talkido Mio is used as communicative tool for specific vocabularies.
Various animal sounds are recorded for DIY cards that they have clues to find and match with the correct toys.
Outcomes
Enhanced Vocabulary
The created activities with Talkido system, expanded the vocabularies for students.
Increased Engagement
It supported interactive learning for students and presented engaging environment.
Educator Testimonial
"The Talkido system allowed the kids to work on tasks more independently and improved their participation in social interactions. Using it for different activities is very helpful and it is quick to program."
Alysha Simoni
SLP in Eureka City Schools