Welcome To Becca Eisenberg Speech App Reviews
Becca provides insight into apps for speech and learning
Rebecca Eisenberg, MS, CCC-SLP, is a speech-language pathologist, author, instructor, and parent of two children, who began her website gravitybread.com to create a resource for parents to help make mealtime an enriched learning experience. She has worked as a specialist in area of Augmentative and Alternative Communication for over 15 years serving both children and adults with varying disabilities in schools, day habilitation programs, home care and clinics.
Becca currently works as a speech language pathologist on the tech team at the Westchester Institute for Human Development in Valhalla, NY.
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10 Ways to Use Bluebee Pal as an Assistive Technology Tool: An SLP Perspective
What is assistive technology? According to Assistive Technology Industry Association, “Assistive technology (AT): products, equipment, and systems that enhance learning, working, and daily living for persons with disabilities.” Bluebee Pal Pro is a “plush learning...
Teletherapy and the Bluebee Pal App
The Bluebee App Bluebee Pals app is an interactive app which brings your Bluebee Pal to life! No Bluebee Pal is needed to use the app or you can use your own Bluebee Pal. The app features activities of daily living like bathing, brushing teeth and washing hands this...
Bluebee Pal and Lesson Pix in Speech Therapy
What is Lesson Pix? Lesson Pix an affordable, versatile and wonderful resource for creating custom printable materials. I love this website and have used it consistently for teletherapy since the pandemic began. I use it to create visual supports, PowerPoint social...
Speech Apps to Use at Home with Bluebee Pals
Are you looking for some fun and user-friendly speech apps to try at home with your Bluebee Pal? As an app reviewer, I have reviewed many apps that are easy to use for parents at home to help facilitate speech and language. To see all of my app reviews,...
Bluebee Pals Techie Rangers: Speech and Language Tips for the Classroom
Bluebee Pals Techie Rangers Are you looking for an ideal literacy companion for the Bluebee Pal? Bluebee Pals Techie Rangers is an educational, colorful and engaging picture book about the Bluebee Pals and their new friend, Andy. This book, whose main character has...
Story-time with Bluebee Pal
Reading Time is Learning Time with Bluebee Pal! Do you want to expand your child’s language? Help them learn vocabulary? Reading aloud is one of the best ways to meet these goals! Let Bluebee Pal read to your child with these recommended apps below! Parent"s...
Bluebee Pals Techie Rangers Book, New Release!
Bluebee Pals Techie Rangers, a companion to the Bluebee Pal Pro! Do you want to add an educational carryover tool with your Bluebee Pal? Bluebee Pal Techie Rangers is the book for you! This picture book is written by speech and language pathologist, Rebecca Eisenberg...
10 Goals in AAC Therapy with Bluebee Pals
Bluebee Pal is a plush educational learning tool that can be connected to a tablet, phone or computer via Bluetooth. Once connected to a device (such as an iPhone or iPad), this interactive educational tool can talk, read and sing. As an app reviewer for Bluebee Pals...
Bluebee Pal as an Assistive Technology Tool: An SLP Perspective
What is assistive technology? According to Assistive Technology Industry Association, “Assistive technology (AT): products, equipment, and systems that enhance learning, working, and daily living for persons with disabilities.” Bluebee Pal Pro is a “plush learning...
Ten Language and Learning Goals with the Bluebee App
Ten Language and Learning Goals when using the Bluebee App Making choices: Making choices with the Bluebee Pal App is easy with this app. When the app begins, a child gets the option of choosing a Bluebee Pal (choice between...
Choice Works App with Bluebee Pal
Choice Works App: With Back to School in full swing, do you have students or a child that needs more visual supports? Does your child have trouble with transitions? Check out my these Choice Works apps below to help with transitions! With Bluebee Pal at your child's...
Speech Blubs App Meets Bluebee Pal Pro
Speech Blubs is a comprehensive speech therapy app that targets both assessment and treatment for children with speech and language delays and disorders. Once you download this free app, the assessment screens pops up and begins navigating you through a short...
Bluebee Pal and Say it Sam Speech App
Sayin It Sam is a unique speech therapy app that was created by a hard working and dedicated mother, Nea Handscomb who wanted to create an app that would help children who struggle with speech production. The app has some wonderful features and is free! When you...
Preventing the Summer Slide with Bluebee Pal
Prevent summer slide with Bluebee Pal! It's summer and time to play outside and be free! Summer can be a wonderful time for both children and adults to relax and be engaged in a variety of unstructured tasks. However, with all of that time off, it can also be a time...
Speech Apps to Use at Home with Bluebee Pal
Are you looking for some fun and user-friendly speech apps to try at home with your Bluebee Pal? As an app reviewer, I have reviewed many apps that are easy to use for parents at home to help facilitate speech and language. To see all of my app reviews, click here. I...
Bluebee App and 10 Language and Learning Goals
The Bluebee pal App is a free educational and interactive app which can bring your Bluebee Pal to life! Don't have a Bluebee Pal? No problem! This free app can be used without a Bluebee Pal. The Bluebee Pal App incorporates choice making and engagement when...
Practicing Conversation with Bluebee Pal using AAC Apps
Children who use AAC often begin using their augmentative and alternative communication apps to request desired items and actions. Although this an important communicative function to help meet basic communication needs and wants, it's not very helpful when it comes...
Baby’s Musical Hands App and Bluebee Pals
Help build your child's cause-effect and knowledge of different colors with Baby's Musical Hands App! This is a simple and fun app for young children under 2. This app helps teach babies cause and effect and also helps learn the difference between different sounds. As...
The Five Little Monkeys App and Bluebee Pals
The Five Little Monkeys App is a fun and educational for a child under 3. This fun and interactive app combine music, counting and learning a new language! The app opens up to a screen with the options, "country", "rock" and "pop". I would suggest trying all of the...
The Eli Explorer App and Bluebee Pals
The Eli Explorer App was created by early childhood experts designed to encourage kids to explore while learning. This app helps encourage language and learning in a fun educational and interactive way. When you open the app, press play and then see Eli sleeping! How...
Bluebee Pals with Children 3 and Under
Apps to try with Children under three years. In this article, I wanted to find fun and educational ways to use Bluebee Pal and apps with your child under the age of 3. These apps are engaging, educational and Bluebee Pal will be your perfect companion! Included in...
Learning Time with a Bluebee Pal
Learning Telling Time with Bluebee Pal Todo Telling Time is a learning and interactive app for children K-2 that helps facilitate learning of time concepts. This educational app is also very functional because it relates to the everyday concepts and also helps target...
Snap and Core First App and Bluebee Pal
Snap and Core First App DynaVox is the DynaVox's new communication app and software. This app is free to download for certified ASHA speech-language pathologists and includes both core and fringe vocabulary with additional features. This app is free to download a...
Elmo’s Monster Maker Meets Bluebee Pal
Celebrate Christmas with Elmo's Monster Maker! What child doesn't like Elmo? He is lovable, cute and animated. Elmo is also friendly and funny, which makes kids giggle with delight. In this app, there is a variety of Christmas and holiday-themed features to decorate...
Bluebee Pal Reads How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Celebrate Christmas with this classic audiobook app, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! by Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss's books are timeless and this app tells the story of the Grinch with animated voices and interactive features. It comes with a voice-over narration, so the...
Holiday Apps to Celebrate with Bluebee Pal
For the holiday season, I wanted to review two different apps for children to use with Bluebee Pal. Since children celebrate all different holidays I wanted to include apps that celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. Bluebee can celebrate any holiday with...
10 Ways to Use Bluebee Pal during AAC Therapy
10 Ways to Use Bluebee Pal during AAC Therapy Bluebee Pal is a plush educational learning tool that can be connected to a tablet, phone or computer via Bluetooth. Once connected to a device (such as an iPhone or iPad), this interactive educational tool can talk,...
Fun Spanish Learning Games Meets Bluebee Pal
Fun Spanish Language Learning games is a free and engaging app for children who want to learn Spanish. This app is part of series of many different apps by Study Cat include Fun Chinese, Fun French and much more. The app includes 2 Free Lessons and 13 Learning Games....
4 Apps for Learning Different Languages with Bluebee Pal
It's never too early to expose your child to different languages, especially in the younger years. "During this period and especially the first three years of life, the foundations for thinking, language, vision, attitudes, aptitudes, and other characteristics are...
Learning a New Language with Duolingo and Bluebee Pal
is fun and free! It allows you to learn up to 23 languages- Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Irish, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Turkish, Norwegian, Polish, Hebrew, Esperanto, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Welsh, Greek, Hungarian, Romanian, and Swahili. How...
Cooking with Bluebee Pal, 5 Apps to Teach your Child Food Preparation
Do you want to teach your child to be more independent in the kitchen? How about helping them to prepare and purchase food? Dinner preparation can be a very busy and stressful time for parents due to homework, after-school activities, sports, etc. Often, we rush...
Dr. Panda Restaurant Asia App
Learn all about how to prepare Asian food with Dr. Panda Restaurant Asia app! How will Dr. Panda prepare the food? With over 20 ingredients to choose from, the player will get the opportunity to make a variety of food choices including stir fry, sushi, soup and more!...
Toca Kitchen App and Bluebee Pals
Toca Kitchen is an app to help your child explore cooking in a fun and nonmessy environment! Does your child or student even want to play with their food? When you open the app, you choose one of out of four characters. Once you choose a character, you have the choice...
Storytime with Bluebee Pal and Nick Jr. Books
Nick Jr. Books app is a collection of digital books featuring stories from the most popular Nick Jr friends, including PAW Patrol, Blaze and the Monster Machines, Bubble Guppies, Dora the Explorer, Dora and Friends, SpongeBob SquarePants, Team Umizoomi, Wallykazam,...
Phone Calls with Elmo and Bluebee Pal
Elmo Calls is a fun and interactive app for young children that are just learning how to make phone calls. This app, which is priced at $1.99, is endless fun for Elmo lovers! The conversations with Elmo can help teach your child about healthy habits, self-confidence,...
Bluebee Pal meets Julia from Sesame Street
Welcome, Julia to Sesame Street with this free and informative app from Sesame Street. Julia is the newest character on Sesame Street and she has Autism. Included in this free and interactive app, there is information for parents to read and learn and then share with...
Learn Categories with Bluebee and the Splingo app
Categories with Splingo is an excellent therapy tool from the authors of the Splingo series of Speech and Language Therapy apps. This app, which was created by speech and language pathologists uses colorful and engaging images with fun and interactive play to learn...
Cooking with Bluebee Pal and the SideChef App
SideChef makes cooking accessible, easy and fun at any skill level by providing the user with step-by-step photos, instructions, and voice commands. This free app includes over 3500 step by step recipes and a homepage that changes daily with helpful tips. Each...
Learning Phonics with Phonics Genius App
Phonics Genius app is an excellent app to improve your child's ability to learn phonics! The free app contains over 6,000 words and combines audio, voice and written words together. The words are grouped by phonics and support three unique learning modes. This...
Learning Baby Sign Language with Bluebee Pal
Do you want to teach your young child Baby Sign Language? This free app, Baby Sign Language Dictionary-Lite is an excellent way to introduce your child to baby sign language. This Baby Sign Language App allows the child an opportunity to learn some simple and...
Making Ice Cream and Smoothies with Bluebee Pal
Summer is here and with the warm weather, what do you crave? Ice cream, ice pops and smoothies of course! Miumiu, the app's little panda loves making ice cream, smoothies, and ice pops. The free app, Ice Cream, and Smoothies Panda Shop allow a child to manage their...
Interactive Petting Zoo Book with Bluebee Pal
Petting Zoo app is an interactive picture book with illustrations by Christoph Niemann. This app created by the company Fox and Sheep is fun, versatile and interactive for children of all ages and abilities. Swipe and tap the 21 animals and see their reactions....
Answer “wh” Questions and Play Bingo with Bluebee Pal
Wh Questions – Bingo App is an educational app that can help a child learn to differentiate and respond to various “wh” question such as Who, What, Where, When and Why. Answering these types of questions can be challenging for children and adults with varying...
A Day in the Market with Bluebee Pal
A Day in the Market (Araw sa Palengke) is about a little girl's very first trip to the market with her mother. The market is an exciting cultural adventure as she meets lively vendors, see a variety of foods and items and finds a special item that she wants! To find...
Actions Words and Bluebee Pal motivate learning
Learning actions is essential for communication and conversation. With this free Actions Words app by Innovative Mobile Apps, your child can improve their receptive vocabulary by learning action words with clear photographs that are included in the app. Action...
Storybots App – Books, Videos and Games starring Bluebee Pal!
The StoryBots App is an educational and lively app that includes over 250 educational books, videos, and games. This free app includes characters from the hit Netflix original series, “Ask the StoryBots" and "StoryBots Super Songs and also has the ability to...
Learning Animal and Vehicle Sounds with Bluebee Pal
For a young child, learning animal and vehicle sounds can be fun and interactive. This free app, I Hear Ewe by Claireware Software is a simple and user-friendly game including 24 different animal sounds and 12 different vehicle sounds. When the child taps on the...
Category Therapy Lite App with Bluebee Pals
Category Therapy Lite gives the individual the ability to trial different features of the app before purchasing it. Category Therapy Lite is a professional speech therapy app that helps individuals with language disorders due to stroke, brain injury, or developmental...
Bluebee Pal and Language Therapy App 4 in 1
Language Therapy App 4 in 1 was created for stroke victims but can be useful for many different populations such as children with speech and language disorders and delays and other varying disabilities. This free app contains nearly full functionality for a...
Playing Bingo with CommunicAide
Playing Bingo with CommunicAide App CommunicAide is a communication app originally created for individuals with Aphasia and other language disorders. CommunicAide combines real photographs with frequent sentence starters to help individuals communicate more...
Narrating your own story with Imagistory app and the Bluebee Pal
Imagistory is an inventive and creative app that brings wordless books to life. After recording the book, attach your Bluebee Pal for a fun and inventive way of storytelling. Imagistory is created for children ages 3 and up and gives children the opportunity to be...
Building Social Communication with StorySmart Stories and Bluebee Pal
Ruby Cube is a company that has developed StorySmart, which are stories developed for children with Autism to help improve social communication. Ruby Cube offers StorySmart includes six individualized stories that have been developed by Jennifer and Pete Minneli. Each...
The PECS Phase III APP and Bluebee Pal
The PECS Phase III app is an excellent and valuable AAC tool that allows an individual to implement the teaching of Phase III of PECS™ with the added bonus of using a dynamic screen. This app is ideal for individuals who are using a PECS book and are using this app to...
Clicker Books Apps and Bluebee Pals
Clicker Books is a book making app that helps supports students with varying abilities. The app includes speech support which helps students to review and self monitor what they have written within the Clicker Book app. You have the option of creating your own book,...
Bluebee Pal and The Big Green Monster
Go Away Big Green Monster is an interactive and engaging book about A Big Green Monster. Reading this book can help a child learn body parts, numbers, attributes, colors and additional basic concepts. It can also facilitate the concept of commenting and improving of...
Learning Adjectives with Bluebee Pal
Comparative adjectives by Grasshopper Apps can be an excellent tool with Bluebee Pals to use during therapy activities or at home to reinforce descriptive concepts. This app includes clear and familiar photographs that can help children learn adjectives such as...
Photo Album with Avaz App and Bluebee Pal
Avaz is a communication app that was developed in collaboration with 25 schools and 500 children, to help children with autism achieve improved communication. This app is available as a Lite app or can be purchased for $199.99. It is also available on the Apple App...
Explore Paris with Bluebee Pro & Suzette App
Take a virtual trip to Paris with Suzette, the crepe maker with this language rich story app that includes a children’s book, videos, photos of Paris and an interactive map with the unique opportunity to explore target words in different languages. Five other...
Make AAC Assessment Interactive with Bluebee Pal Pro
AAC Evaluation Genie is an informal diagnostic tool developed by Hump Software. It can be a valuable and comprehensive assessment tool during AAC assessment for both children and adults with complex communication needs. This app can help a clinician gather important...
Answering “Why” Questions with Bluebee Pals
Wh Questions: Why? Speech and Education Cards is an app that was created by speech language pathologists and contains professional illustrations and scenes with educational content. The app includes 30 scenes which gives you at least 30 different opportunities for...
Learning How to Request Comfort with Total Talk and the Bluebee Pal
Total Talk is a comprehensive AAC app developed by Panther Technology. This app combines core vocabulary, quick communication and other various features that make it an integrative AAC tool for individuals with complex communication needs. Total Talk has a user...
Learning Actions with Bluebee Pals using Actions in Video
Actions in Video is a functional app that was created by Geraldine Moran, speech language pathologist to help individuals with complex communication needs build sentences for communication. This app can be used successfully with both individuals with speech and...
Bubble Activity with LAMP Words for Life and the Bluebee Pal
LAMP Words For Life™ is a comprehensive augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) language app that combines the PRC Unity® language system with Language Acquisition through Motor Planning (LAMP™) principles and strategies. LAMP™ provides a consistent motor...
Social Stories with LinguiSystems and Bluebee Pal
Autism & PDD Picture Stories & Language Activities are speech and language therapy materials that are available in book, online and app formats. This app features the likable characters from the series,...
Baking a Cake with Clicker Connect and Bluebee Pal
Clicker Connect developed by Crick Software helps students who are emerging readers and writers to help take beginning steps to independent writing by using words and phrases to build coherent text. Students have the opportunity to explore texts in a variety of...
Five Sharks Swimming and Bluebee Pal Pro
Five Sharks Swimming by Inclusive Technology Inc. is a fun and interactive game that can help teach a child the concept of cause effect, counting, rhyming and taking turns. The game includes counting songs, counting up activities, number line activities,...
Guessing Game with Clicker Communicator
Clicker communicator is an AAC app developed by Crick Software. It includes three comprehensive vocabulary page sets with core and fringe vocabulary. All of these page sets include the same topics to optimize motor learning. The consistent topics and color...
Calendar Time with the Compass App and Bluebee Pal Pro
Compass App is a versatile comprehensive app created by Tobii DynaVox Technologies. The app includes a variety of page sets including Word Power, Gateway, PODD and a variety of DynaVox communication pages. Compass provides a research-based communication solution for...
Letter School App and Bluebee Pals
Letter school is an app that can help your child write the letters of the alphabet. This app can make handwriting easier by providing the child with motivating and supportive stimuli with appropriate cues. For each letter, your child will learn the letter name, sound...
Endless Alphabet App and Bluebee Pals
Kids will have a blast learning their ABC's and building vocabulary with the adorable monsters in Endless Alphabet. Each word features an interactive puzzle game with talking letters and a short animation illustrating the definition. Before you know it, your child...
Learn Core Words with Language Lab and Bluebee Pals
Language Lab: Core Words was created by Prentke Romich Company to help emergent communicators learn to use core word more functionally and fluently. The app includes the opportunity for users to learn, practice and then review important core words essential for...
Teaching Emote with Predictable and Bluebee Pals
Predictable is a text based AAC app that gives an individual access to a text to speech feature of a keyboard, with quick phrases, emote and access to communication with the app with regards to email, social media and text messaging. With Predictable, an individual...
Create a Social Story with Pictello and Bluebee Pal
Create a social story with Pictello and make Bluebee Pal the reader of the story! Pictello is a versatile app that can be used to create stories with using photos, short video clips and text. This app has the ability to use both synthesized and digitized speech. The...
Read, Learn Explore and Sing with Dirty Duds and Bluebee Pal
The adapted play book Dirty Duds is an app created by speech language pathologist, Pati King DeBaun. Pati is an AAC specialist for over 25 years that has created a series of apps that are ideal for children with cognitive and physical disabilities. Dirty Duds is a...
All About You? All about Me? Asking Questions with Bluebee Pal
This colorful, educational social skills App for the iPhone®, iPad®, and iPod touch® has all 56 illustrated picture flash cards (plus audio of each card text) from the All About You, All About Me Fun Deck® by Super Duper® Publications. Select the cards you want...
Writing a Story with Symbol Support App and Bluebee Pal
SymbolSupport App is an editing program that allows you to add symbols to your text, while SymbolReader is a free app that displays these symbolized documents. Both apps read the documents with a high-quality text-to-speech voice and word-by-word highlighting. The...
Sounding Board APP and your Bluebee Pal
Sounding Board is a free AAC app with preloaded boards for communication. SoundingBoard is a mobile augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) app from AbleNet designed for teachers, parents, and caregivers of non-verbal students and persons with speech...
Telling Jokes with Touch Chat App and your Bluebee Pal
Touch Chat is a versatile AAC app that includes a variety of page sets with both core and fringe vocabulary for effective and efficient communication. The Touch Chat communication app can be purchased with or without Word Power and this activity can be done with...
Fun with Directions Lite and Bluebee Pal
Fun with Directions Lite by Hamaguchi Apps is an app that helps target following directions, improving auditory comprehension and understand specific concepts (e.g. function of objects, actions). The app was developed to be used for children ages 4-6 and can be used...
One More Story and Bluebee Pal
One More Story is an app that I have used with students for years in order to help improve cause and effect, vocabulary, literacy and auditory comprehension. With this subscription based app, you can access over 76 books including Pete’s a Pizza, Bear books (Barefoot...
Cough Drop App and Bluebee Pal
CoughDrop is a simple, modern AAC communication and support tool that empowers individuals and the teams around them. It is a full-featured communication app built for individuals with autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, Angelman syndrome, Rett syndrome, or other...
Who is the Bluebee Pal appropriate for ?
Who is the Bluebee Pal appropriate for? I think any child would enjoy this interactive learning tool. Children with special needs (e.g. Autism, ADHD, Social Communication Disorder, etc) could benefit from this interactive tool because of the various goals that I...
Speak for Yourself and Bluebee Pals
Speak for Yourself is an AAC app developed by speech language pathologists that gives an individual access to a variety of core vocabulary with the addition of various features that makes communication quick and efficient.This AAC app turns the iPad into a...
Sono Flex Lite and Bluebee Pals
Sono Flex Lite is an excellent AAC app for communication and that empowers individuals and the teams around them. It that can be downloaded for free and can give you access to an extensive vocabulary for those individuals that have complex communication needs. The...
Dream Reader App and Bluebee Pals
Voice Dream Reader App is a convenient and accessible reading tool that can be downloaded at an affordable rate. With advanced text-to-speech and a highly configurable screen layout, it can be tailored to a variety of reading styles from completely auditory...
The Verbally App and Bluebee Pals
Verbally is a free AAC app that can give an individual access to a text to speech keyboard, key words and key phrases. Verbally is excellent in teaching text to speech communication for those that can spell for communication with the added features of rate enhancement...
Free Augmentative & Alternative Communication Apps for iPad®
What is an Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC)? People with speech or language problems rely on AAC to supplement spoken language or completely replace speech. Special aug-mentative aids, such as picture communica-tion boards and apps on mobile devices,...
Cooking with The Bluebee Pals and GoTalk Now App!
GoTalk Now is an AAC app that can help give an individual the ability to communicate via aided communication. GoTalk Now and GoTalk Now Plus by Attainment Company is flexible by nature and gives the user the ability to create various t communication pages such as...
The Proloquo2Go App and Bluebee Pals
Proloquo2Go is a communication app that is used by individuals who have a limited ability to use speech for communication and need an augmentative and/or alternative way to communicate. I have used this communication app with all ages from young children to adults...
Apps to Help Kids Meet Their Goals in the New Year
Have you helped your kiddos set goals? Merriam-Webster shows the simple definition of goal to be “something that you are trying to do or achieve.” Remember goals can be adjusted, but the key is to set them and begin! Here are some apps that will help your kiddos...
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