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Smart Oral Motor

Cartoon image of a duck standing in a field on top of a menu of eight images of a duck with various facial expressions.
Product Type: 
Device modifier
Manufacturer Name: 
Smarty Ears
Approximate Cost: $6.00

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Product Description: 

Smart Oral Motor is a speech and oral motor skills training app designed for children with Apraxia of Speech, Down syndrome or craniofacial anomalies that experience difficulties with their oral motor skills. The app allows a parent or therapist to facilitate children's oral motor skills, which are needed for basic functions such as eating and speaking.

Main Features: 

  • It includes 15 oral motor exercises, auditory information, and animations.
  • Parents and therapists have the ability to adjust the number of repetitions per movement as they please.
  • Clever, the duck, provides auditory and visual cues for practicing several oral motor exercises such as:
    • Puckering lips.
    • Making an “o” with the mouth.
    • Sending a kiss.
    • Moving tongue to sides.
    • Puffing cheeks.
    • Touching cheeks using the tongue.
    • Moving the tongue up and down.
  • Therapists will evaluate and provide full guidance on how to best use this application.
  • If parents are working with their therapists in trying to develop a home program for their child, this can be one resource.

Primary Specifications: 

  • Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
  • Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

More Information: 

See product in Apple’s App Store.