United StatesFrom ConsonantlySpeaking.com: "Hamaguchi Apps has revolutionized storytelling in their application, "You're the Storyteller: The Surprise." You’re the storyteller! In this beautifully animated, wordless story, the child watches each scene and can then record and/or write their very own narration! **THIS IS THE PRO VERSION, for the iPAD. It holds up to 30 users' narrations and writing. For a single user, please check out our Home Version. (There is no iPHONE version) Perfect for narrative language development! Check out our Youtube demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyyzZxOt9BA In this delightful wordless book, a boy brings home a stray dog and attempts to hide it from his mother. Using body language, facial expressions, and carefully selected sound effects, watch the story unfold and find out why it is called “The Surprise!” There are 8 chapters in this story. Each chapter’s animation clips runs an average of 15 seconds, allowing the child to describe and retell the story in small increments. The user may replay the entire narrated story from beginning to end via the Table of Contents. You can also watch the original story with or without music accompaniment, email your story including the voice file, or print it out! There are “Challenge Words” provided for each chapter. These are optional and for more advanced language learners who want to try and put them into their narration. The “Questions” bone provides 3 questions for each chapter. Answers and suggestions for both of these are available in the Information page. This is the Professional version. Up to 30 users’ voice files and written narration is kept in the program. When a new recording or writing is provided for that user, it erases whatever was previously recorded or written for that user. Aside from being just plain FUN, this app lends itself well to a host of educational and therapeutic possibilities: practice with articulation, fluency, syntax development, social cognitive skills including perspective-taking and body language/facial expression inference, and much more! A perfect speech therapy app! *Please contact our tech support if you are experiencing any technical issues with our apps. We will always help you troubleshoot it and get back to you generally within one business day. We cannot respond to reviews and there are generally easy solutions to every issue. [email protected] PRIVACY POLICY: We do NOT collect personal data from our users and have no ads. Personal data regarding user performance on the tasks on this app are self-contained and not transmitted in any way, unless the user chooses to email them to someone else. There are no in-app purchases in this app. A demo link will allow a user with internet access to view a video on YouTube to learn about the features of this app, as well as a link to our other apps in the iTunes store. Developed by noted speech-language pathologist and author of Childhood Speech, Language & Listening Problems: What Every Parent Should Know, Patti Hamaguchi, M.A., CCC-SLP. To find out more about this app and our other upcoming projects, visit our website: www.hamaguchiapps.com Questions or need Tech Support? Email us at [email protected]
Great app- needs updating
I love this app. Went to download it again and cannot. The developer needs to up date it.
United StatesMore, more please!
How great is this app! While it is only one story the versatility and the perfect design of this app makes it an exceptional tool for language impaired kids. It has been particularly helpful for some of my autistic students. What I've found is that repeated viewing of individual segments or reviewing the entire story over many sessions is very helpful. The ability to pause the story and look at the facial expressions within the context of a story is wonderful. Hope there will be more stories to come!
United StatesWonderful App with Many Educational Applications!
My intermediate elementary school students love this app. It is perfect for small groups and can address expressive and receptive language, oral and written narrative skills, perspective taking and inferencing. Please make some more stories!
United StatesGreat tool for slps
This is a great story to work on narrative skills. I only wish there was a way to make it go slower because my speech and language impaired students cannot keep up.
United StatesAwesome
I love this app. It's really thought out and there is so much to this app. You get to work on creating your own story based on what you see and think is happening. You get three questions per chapter, but I sometimes will ask my own questions. There is a great info page with tips and suggestions for using the app. Also, with the Pro version you can let your kid listen to other kids stories so they can hear how others interpreted the story. Great job Hamaguchi!
United StatesAuthor approved App!
As the author of two books, I LOVE this app. Not only can children speak the story and record it in their own words, but they can type it in too! My only wish is that it had a few more stories in it. This app is priced well and can give children hours of thought provoking fun! It is great for use with children who have trouble writing stories too!
United StatesSlp
I think the app is a great way to improve creativity, syntax and reading among many other areas of speech and language development. The only complaint I have is that there is only one story. There should be more than one story. My kids have mastered this story, answered all the questions, and used all the challenge words. They are bored with it now, and they really want a new story. Are there other stories available? I have the pro version so that I can have multiple users, but I think there should be multiple stories as well.
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