Update #1 3/28/13 – Success! App was reviewed by an expedited process and approved. Please update and enjoy Word SLapPs Vocabulary. Thank you for your understanding and support. ~Wallace
3/28/13 – Fixed version of Word SLapPs has been submitted to Apple and we expect the review to take several days. Thanks for being patient! ~Wallace
3/25/13 -Today Word SLapPs Vocabulary was updated in the App Store. Unfortunately, there are some serious problems with it and we recommend that it not be updated. We are working on a fix right now and we hope to have a new version of the app as soon as possible. The current version is unaffected and works fine. When the new (corrected) update is available in the App Store, previously affected updates and people who bought Word SLapPs during this time will then have working copies of the app.
A few words about how long it will take. Once we get the new update corrected and tested, we will submit it the the App Store. Once this happens, it will be placed in a queue and will be checked by Apple. This check usually takes between 7-10 days. So, realistically, the fix for Word SLapPs could take almost two weeks.
While we at Zorten Software take care to troubleshoot every app that we make and update, sometimes we make mistakes and something slips. This is unacceptable and we ask for your patience and understanding while we get this resolved.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Wallace Kineyko
Co-owner, Zorten Software, LLC.
Word SLapPs Vocabulary for the iPad that allows you to teach vocabulary at your pace! Add actions, sight words and more to create a easy to use teaching aid. Developed and designed by a Speech Language Pathologist (SLP), Word SLapPs makes teaching vocabulary much easier by letting you leave your therapy cards at home!
Word SlapPs is used to teach vocabulary words specific to your child’s world with images that you choose. Upload and save your images into customizable categories and pair them with your own recorded questions. Easy to use, Word SlapPs is designed by an SLP and modeled after Discrete Trial teaching. Children touch target images and are rewarded with sounds and/or visuals. Target vocabulary words alone or with up to two other images to increase difficulty. Word SLapPs comes pre- loaded with color and animal categories to start with. Word SlapPs is recommended for SLP’s, teachers or parents.
Key features;
Teach what you want: nouns, actions, sight words, “where” questions…..
Upload your own images to personalize teaching
Pair images with your voice recorded questions
Six levels of play as well as randomization
Settings allow control of auto advance, sounds and visual effects.
Teach vocabulary from a second language
Target one or more vocabulary words at a time
Help young readers master sight words
Purchase new themes, animations, sounds and visual rewards. Now on sale in the App Store!
Featured in HP’s Hacking Autism initiative!
#1 by Amber Diego on January 18, 2011 - 8:07 am
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I just got the app, and I tried to make a new category and input pics, but it wouldn’t save! What did I do wrong??
#2 by SLPapps on January 19, 2011 - 12:36 pm
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Most likely you have to press the “Done” button instead of just pressing “Back”
Also, be sure you save the Category before you create all of your images.
Hope this helps!
#3 by Susan Stenz on January 19, 2011 - 7:07 pm
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How many categories can you make. I have the 2preloads plus 3 more but can’t add more.
#4 by SLPapps on January 20, 2011 - 8:36 am
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That’s right. Word SLapPs comes with Color and Animal categories along with an additional three that you can create yourself.
#5 by Sandra Mazzaschi on January 20, 2011 - 7:59 pm
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Is there anyway to add more than 3 additional categories?
#6 by SLPapps on January 21, 2011 - 9:15 am
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Right now there are only three user categories, but we plan on adding more in future updates.
#7 by Gary James on January 27, 2011 - 8:58 pm
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First of all, great app, open ended learning possibility.
I am the person behind the site http://www.a4cwsn.com which stands for Apps for Children with Special Needs.
Today a parent asked me to do a review of your APP.
You can see the review on the site.
http://a4cwsn.com/?p=685
http://www.a4cwsn.com
Keep up the good work.
I would like to ad your logo and link to the site also.
Please let me know if I can do so, there is never a fee.
Best
Gary
#8 by SLPapps on January 28, 2011 - 8:10 pm
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Thanks for the great review, Gary. Keep it up with A4CWSN.com and we’d love you to link to our site!
#9 by Marilyn on February 3, 2011 - 6:46 am
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Great app!!!!! I am a speech therapist too. Is there a way to add text to the top of the page like you have on your example such as “Find Blue”
I would also like to see more categories that we can add. I will use this all the time!
How do I put a picture into the “category box” on the categories page where you have the animals and colors?
Thank you so much ;-)
#10 by SLPapps on February 3, 2011 - 7:08 am
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More categories are on the way in the next update, we’re happy to report. For the text, right now, the only way to do this is to add it when naming the image. We are also looking into making the images appear as thumbnails in the category buttons.
#11 by Amber on February 18, 2011 - 9:53 am
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Love the update! So many possibilities. I have a suggestion; could you add something to your app/ website so that we could share categories we make? If I make a category for, say transportation, I could share it with you to share with others and so on so that we could not “reinvent the wheel category” and share the creative work load. I would appreciate that.
#12 by SLPapps on February 19, 2011 - 9:02 am
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Great idea! Please look under the Word SLapPs heading to go to here. This is now the Image collection Archive. You will be able to download images to use in Word SLapPs. Hope this helps!
#13 by Shirleen on February 22, 2011 - 8:53 pm
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As a Special Education Teacher without a lot of money…this app is perfect for my young students. Real photographs..yeepeeeee thanks
#14 by viky on March 4, 2011 - 9:29 am
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How to I edit the name of a category?
#15 by SLPapps on March 4, 2011 - 5:23 pm
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Right now you can’t edit categories, folders or images, but look for it in the next update. Coming soon!
#16 by Annette Cosgrove on March 21, 2011 - 5:29 pm
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I love your app and so do the kids I work with. There are only a couple of things I would like to see. 1. Is there a way you could update to make a 6 picture choice an option instead of just 3 max? 2. Could there be a feature to turn on text since you have to enter it anyway when you create your category? Thank you so much for developing this app! Have you considered the Android market as well? I know this app would be a big hit there too.
#17 by SLPapps on March 22, 2011 - 9:39 am
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Thanks for the suggestion. We are looking into adding more images in our next update and will see if it will be possible to add six pictures to it. You can display the text from the settings page and selecting “Sounds Off”
#18 by dee fish on March 30, 2011 - 4:40 pm
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How do you upload the images and save them into categories?
#19 by SLPapps on March 31, 2011 - 6:54 am
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Uploading images can be done in many ways, the easiest is to have you iPad sync to your computer to add your images. You can also copy images from websites by touching and holding your finger to it to copy the image. To save them you can watch a demonstration of adding images and making categories here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtube_gdata_player&v=19ag9oHgu1g
#20 by Marianne on April 4, 2011 - 6:03 pm
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Love the app! I got the lite and then bought the full version. My question…. is there any way to transfer the category I already made in the lite to the full version so I don’t have to start from scratch?
Also, I would love to be able to adjust the picture size for larger pictures. Do you see that as a future update?
#21 by SLPapps on April 4, 2011 - 7:24 pm
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Right now you can’t transfer categories or folders between the apps but we are hearing this more and more. We’ll be trying to find a way to make it happen in the next app update or certainly the one after that. We hope to also have the categories and folders transferable between users as well. The size of the images are also being looked at. All suggestions are welcomed!
#22 by Amy on April 12, 2011 - 5:37 pm
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I just bought this app today. I must admit that I am technologically challenged, so on that note how do I import pictures into a category? I looked for a help cue but didn’t see anything that explained it.
Thank you
Amy
#23 by Catherine Morris on April 13, 2011 - 8:57 am
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There are many good features in this app. I agree with the earlier requests shown in the post, and am excited to see new features. I am a Vision Specialist and I often work with SLP’s and SpEd teachers to design or identify activities to address student goals. We would love to see a basic data collection feature. Even if we need to reset the score at the start of a session and track scores via paper for multiple students. It would be helpful to know at the end of a session how many items were identified correctly and maybe even have a list of the ones that were missed. Maybe a visual flag could appear next to the thumb nail of the ones missed. Also within the color game. Would it be possible to cause the correct answer to animate, and stay present on the screen for a moment, while the incorrect answer simply fades away. We would like the students to see the correct answer longer, with emphasis. Perhaps even with the option for the name of the color to be repeated right before the next question is given.
Thanks again for a very useful app, and the opportunity to give input.
#24 by SLPapps on April 13, 2011 - 5:49 pm
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Please see the older comment for the youtube link which should help you upload the images.
#25 by SLPapps on April 13, 2011 - 5:53 pm
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We are in the process of a rather large update and will try to integrate as many suggestions that you and others have. Keep posted and keep the great ideas coming!
#26 by Patricia Berntsen on April 27, 2011 - 5:56 pm
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Parrots and chickens are both birds and really confused my student. Could you change that pair?
#27 by Beth on May 7, 2011 - 3:42 pm
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I love this ap for my 3 year old son! It would be nice to have the option of putting more than 3 choices on the screen at a time.
#28 by SLPapps on May 16, 2011 - 12:16 pm
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Our next update will be doing exactly that. We will be adding scoring, incorrect response, editable folders, the ability to use the iPad2 camera to take images directly into Word SlapPs in addition to 3 more levels, for a total of six. Stay tuned>>>>
#29 by SLPapps on May 16, 2011 - 12:23 pm
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Look for the change in the next update!
#30 by Melodie Gingras on June 11, 2011 - 1:53 pm
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I don’t have a website but thank you for sharing your applications with A4cwsn…and the world! Your company is awesome…fron Austic Awesome Austin’s grandmother!
#31 by SLPabc on July 3, 2011 - 10:26 am
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Like the app for customizing materials. It would be nice to be able to have the audio presented only once, rather than be in auto-repeat mode, so kids have more time to respond.
#32 by Anna on August 16, 2011 - 2:46 am
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Hi,
I just uploaded the words slapps. I have 6 levels in the row, however i can use only 3 for some reason. Did I do something wrong or I have to update my version?
Thanks
Anna
#33 by SLPapps on August 20, 2011 - 10:52 am
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Word SLapPs Vocabulary will only let you use the levels where there images for them. For instance, if you make a category with three images, you will only be able to use up to level 3, four images up to level 4, etc…
#34 by Liz on December 22, 2011 - 11:28 pm
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Slightly disappointed… I didn’t like the realistic animal images for my 15 month old so I purchased the farm and vehicle upgrades thinking they were for the actual images, not just background visuals. I have no interest in these themes if they don’t provide images for the actual program, can I somehow uninstall/return them?
#35 by SLPapps on December 26, 2011 - 10:05 am
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You can navigate to the Settings page and Choose Themes/Visuals and choosing the Basic theme. This will return you to the default theme and it will, in effect, uninstall them.
#36 by mommy on February 3, 2012 - 4:06 am
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I am a new owner of a tablet and I purchased it for the purpose of therapy for my three year old daughter who suffers from cerebral palsy and has difficulty with speech and movement of one side of her body she also has difficulty opening her hands and muscle spasms, the reason I am being specific is that I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for me with downloading necessary apps that are fantastic or any tips or suggestions when it comes to specific app related programs, thanks
>Mom
#37 by Homer on April 9, 2012 - 5:43 pm
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I really like the app. I prepared categories and pictures and sound on my iPad. Then I realized that there seems no way to get this work transferred to my second iPad used by my son.
Is there a way to transfer entered data from on iPad to another?
#38 by SLPapps on April 17, 2012 - 10:09 am
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We are working on creating a feature to allow users to share their content to others. Stay tuned!
#39 by Plag on October 16, 2012 - 12:27 pm
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I think this app has a lot of potential – but there is one significant problem…
Once the student selects the correct answer, it disappears! Then we are left with the incorrect responses showing. :-( The incorrect answers should fade away leaving the target word so it can be talked about! I love the format, as it follows the DT format so many of my kids need – if you could just fix that one piece it would be perfect!!!
#40 by Tally on November 8, 2012 - 9:12 pm
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I agree with comment 39 regarding leaving us with the incorrect answers instead of making the right one bold but a very good app. Highly recommended.
Please let me know if there will be more thems/ background visuals besides the three ones: basic, animal, transport?
Thanks
Tally
#41 by Penina Rybak MA/CCC-SLP, TSHH on November 12, 2012 - 9:58 am
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I consider the ZORTEN Words and Colors Apps to be wonderful, customizable, memorable iPad Apps for intermediate level lesson plans for children in special education who are mentally around age 3. I am most comfortable with these 2 Apps in particular, as reinforcers for lessons involving hands-on manipulatives (playing with toys, arts&crafts) to teach categorization of like items. I am impressed with the “Settings” module where you can add/edit content, and tailor prompts/number of turns for a truly individualized experience! I like the speaker’s slow rate of speech, and the calming light blue background. I recommend Zorten Software, especially these 2 Apps and the Making Sequences one as well! Keep up the great work and thank you!
Penina Rybak MA/CCC-SLP, TSHH, CEO Socially Speaking LLC
Website: sociallyspeakingLLC.com
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#42 by Nikki on November 19, 2012 - 5:56 pm
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Do you plan to make this app compatible with iPhone or iPod touch? I work with individuals with autism and would love to have it available for those without iPad access.
#43 by ruth on December 9, 2012 - 8:50 am
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My son has autism and has used word slapps for a few years on the IPAD. We love it but he needs a smaller device. Will words slapps go on his Ipod touch??
#44 by SLPapps on December 9, 2012 - 9:34 am
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Right now, only Preposition Pets is available for the iPhone/iPod Touch. All of our apps will work on the iPad Mini, though.
#45 by JL on March 22, 2013 - 7:52 am
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The app downloaded without sound, rendering it useless. How do I get some sound?
#46 by SLPapps on March 22, 2013 - 8:00 am
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The issue is caused by the mute/orientation switch turned on. This is the small switch next to the volume buttons on the side of the iPad. You just have to turn the switch off and it will work. The next update is in review right now and will correct this problem as well as adding a web search to the app.
#47 by SLPapps on March 26, 2013 - 4:34 am
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Yes. This is a known bug and we are trying to fix this as soon as possible. Thanks.