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Splingo's Language Universe

An exceptionally high-quality, interactive game designed by Speech and Language Therapists/Pathologists to help children learn listening and language skills, from the authors of Receptive Language Assessment with Splingo, Pronouns with Splingo, Categories with Splingo and Actions with Splingo apps.
Category Price Seller Device
Education $2.99 The Speech And Language Store LLP iPhone, iPad, iPod

With thousands of different word and sentence possibilities, as well as US or UK voice options, Splingo the alien’s spoken instructions will guide your child through a galaxy of language learning.

Your child will practise their listening and language skills by interacting with the images and animations on the screen to follow Splingo the alien’s spoken instructions. As a reward, they will love helping Splingo build a space ship and complete the tasks in order to get him home. His hilarious animated responses will capture your child’s imagination.

Splingo’s instructions range from a very early level of language development, e.g. single word recognition, to much more complex, e.g. instructions combining several aspects of language at once.

A guide to the levels:
•Level 1 -contains instructions of 1 main word and is suitable for children at a developmental level of about 18 months onwards, e.g. “find the apple”
•Level 2 - contains instructions of 2 main words and is suitable for children at a developmental level of about 2-3 years, e.g. “find the red apple”
•Level 3 - contains instructions of 3 main words and is suitable for children at a developmental level of about 3- 4 years and upwards, e.g. “find the big red apple”
•Level 4 - contains instructions of 4 main words and is suitable for children at a developmental level of about 4 years and upwards, e.g. “give the big red apple to the boy”

While your child is experiencing an entertaining, motivating game, you can be reassured that they are learning a variety of different aspects of language, including naming words (nouns), action words (verbs), location words (prepositions), description words (adjectives), e.g. color, size and much more!

The game is completely customisable so you can create a combination of levels and word types to suit your child’s developmental level.

An SLP:
"The children all love Splingo...especially the encouraging words (yep,yep,yep, ooh whoo etc!) and the rocket! The pace is great for speech/language delayed children."

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Reviews

Could use additions
jcherie24

The idea of the app is great. However, the praise phrases are a bit boring. The reinforcement of building the rocket is fun. Most importantly, it would be PERFECT if you could actually SELECT which nouns to work on. This is why I bought the app because it said customizable— not very customizable. I work with kids with disabilities and they need repetition, not new words each time.


Where’s the data?
VannahRose

This is a great app, but it would be so much better if it provided a number or percentage of correct vs attempted trials so my students can work independently.


Alien voice - thumbs down
Pre-K SLP

I like the concept of this app, but why is the voice so awful? It’s hard enough to follow the directions, and the alien voice quality makes comprehension so much harder.


British accents
mikeymou

I think the concept of this game is great especially the ability to choose levels. That said it would be nice if the accent of the speaker changed along with the dictionary.


Splingo
Kgk32

As an SLP, I love this game because of concepts and vocabulary it targets as well as multiple step directions. The kids also like the reinforcers. I have been having issues with the app force closing though, please fix!!


I love this!
atwoodgang

This is perfect for my slightly special education son. It teaches them to listen to instructions and he loves making the rocket. My five year old just told me "I love that game" as I was writing this. Great graphics and my two kids could play this forever. Definetly worth the money. We did not encounter any problems with the program. Thank you for giving me such an affordable "game" for my son to practice his listening skills and for my younger daughter just to enjoy!


Could be GREAT if...
RDVSLP

As a Speech Language Pathologist who works with ages 3-5 in the U.S., I find this app to be super kid-friendly and motivating. It definitely helps them learn to listen to the ENTIRE direction and requires a decent bit of self-control. The questions are appropriate and the tasks are exactly as stated in the app's description. However, I just downloaded it today and I already had it freeze up on me three times; and had to start all over (which would not be a big deal except that you have to start over on the rocket, too.) The two improvements I'd like to see in the next update are: the ability to skip to the planet that they were trying to reach at the end of the last session. I can see the reinforcer losing it's desirability since every time they play the game they have to start building the rocket all over. We NEVER have enough time to finish the whole thing and get the alien to her home planet. Also, a change of scenery or a change in the alien character or a change in SOMETHING after each planet to indicate that she is on a new planet during the direction-following tasks would be great. Doesn't that make sense? Anyway, this app has potential for 5 star awesome-ness but it's not quite there yet.


No longer working
Happy121

My daughter loved this app, but now after having it for only a couple of days the guy is no longer talking. All my other audio is fine and I can't find an audio setting in the app itself.


Love this but...
IXA MOSES

This week app started freezing up on the fifth planet? My speech kids love this. Maybe a bug?


Awesome!
Dpolley

My students absolutely LOVE this app. They love the characters and sound effects. I love being able to choose which part of speech to work on. However, some of the vocabulary is a little obscure (windmill? Is that a necessary word in a youngster's vocabulary?). Overall, I definitely recommend it!


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