App Friday November 29th

Happy App Friday!

Little train enthusiasts can customize their own locomotive and ride the rails with “Labo Brick Train.” Those struggling with spelling or looking for a more customizable spelling app can take a check out “Special Spelling.” Next, grab two Nampa apps free for Black Friday. Finally, what would a dog say if it could really talk?

Garry Froehlich
Jellybean Tunes

Labo Brick Train
by Labo Lado Inc.

“Labo Brick Train” is a combination puzzle/activity app about trains. Kids start by choosing an engine from many different choices, and then put the pieces of the engine together as a puzzle. After that, they choose up to three cars to add to the train, again from a vast array of choices. Finally, they choose a track ranging from countrysides, winterscapes, underground, roller coaster style tracks and more. Each track has different activities, such as lowering a bridge, or choosing paths, and uses a physics engine, so things can get crazy with full on roller coaster style hills and jumps. The presentation is good, the graphics are a fun paper craft style, and there’s plenty to do for the young train enthusiast.

‎Special Spelling
‎Special Spelling
Price: $19.99

Special Spelling
by Special iApps

Special Spelling is a cleanly designed spelling app, with several variations on the standard spelling format. Words are shown, spoken and placed next to an illustrative image, then the letters disappear and reappear as draggable cards on screen. The child then has to reconstruct the word, or part of the word. Activities include spelling a complete word, finding the first letter of a word, finding the ending of a word, finding vowels, finding double letters and more. The app defaults to a UK voice, but you can switch to a US voice in the settings. You can easily add your own words, pictures and even record yourself saying the words. The graphics are high-contrast with no busy backgrounds, and it works well, although it will likely benefit from a caregiver or professional tailoring the word list and activities to the child.

SALE!

Both Nampa Farm and Nampa Party will be free from Nov 29th to Dec 1st.

‎Nampa Farm
‎Nampa Farm
Developer: Nampa Design AB
Price: $3.99

Nampa Farm

“Nampa Farm is not just any old farm, in true Nampa style it’s filled with creative play and plenty of humour!”

‎Nampa Party
‎Nampa Party
Developer: Nampa Design AB
Price: $2.99

Nampa Party

“Welcome to the party of the year! Nampa Party is all about creativity, from composing your own music to creating the food and funny outfits for the party.”

Speech-Language Pathologist Uses Soundboard So Her Dog Can Talk

This is really remarkable. The dog presses buttons representing words it knows, and appears to be able to string words together into (very) simple sentences.

A Speech Pathologist Has Taught Her Dog How To Speak Real Sentences With A Custom Soundboard

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