Speech and language report for Auni

Created within Speech Blubs app on April 26, 2020.

This is a report for Auni (6 years and 2 months) about hearing, pragmatics, play,
comprehension and talking. It includes information, tips and tricks for kids from 49
months.

Important: This report has been created based on your opinion about your child’s
abilities. We strongly suggest you get your child’s speech and language evaluated by a
qualified Speech and Language Pathologist. You are using this report on your own
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HEARING
Children’s brains need aural stimulation from day one to learn to distinguish sounds and recognize
speech. In order to develop spoken language, children must be able to hear speech clearly and also
to hear themselves make a sound.

Hearing loss can happen at any time, and it can lead to delays in a child's ability to learn. Children with
hearing loss have a risk of falling behind in terms of language development, which is why it is so
important to focus on adequate sound and speech exposure.

Talk with your child's doctor or speech and language therapist if you notice any of these signs:
- Failure to startle or awaken to loud sounds, no response to music, no interest in simple stories or being
read to.
- No progress in your child’s speech, which remains monotonous and/or delayed, or inappropriate
speech recognition (doesn't understand simple phrases, sentences or questions).

Pay attention to ear problems and infections, especially if they keep occurring.

Tips & tricks:

Use Speech Blubs.
With a wide variety of sounds, ranging from laughs and squeaks all the way to sentences and songs,
Speech Blubs has helped countless kids learn and comprehend new letters, words, and sentences. It’s
also the tool of choice for those who wear cochlear implants.

Make sure to keep your face in view.

Videos of real kids’ faces in Speech Blubs provide invaluable face-to-face experience. Qualified speech
therapists have verified the pronunciation and articulation of our app’s child models. Your child will SEE
and IMITATE the ideal lip, mouth, cheek, and tongue movements.

Use Speech Blubs with headphones.

Our app is perfectly compatible with headphones, so your child can hear and comprehend individual
sounds in isolation, with no background noise. This ensures that your child can get the help they need at
the right volume level, even when surrounded by other people.

Music can help develop hearing and motor movement.

Speech Blubs features more than 20 different songs and rhymes you can enjoy together with your child,
and more are being added all the time. These rhymes stick in children’s heads and they end up
vocalizing them even after they stop using the app for the day.

Give your child toys and apps that make noise.

There are hundreds of various noises within Speech Blubs. Kids in our app yell, whistle, sing, and
generally make a joyful noise. There are even a couple of funny, maybe even inappropriate sounds, along
with tons of sounds of encouragement and praise.

This is very important if you suspect hearing loss:

- Keep your face in view.
- Speak clearly and at your normal pace.
- Rephrasing sentences rather than just repeating yourself.
- Avoid background noise when talking to your child.

Your answers:
This report is based on the average within Auni age group (from 49 months). It looks like she is doing
just fine, but the tips and tricks above are still great. Use Speech Blubs to boost his speech even further
and ensure he doesn’t fall behind his peers. Try this screener again in a couple of months to make sure.

Does Auni hear you when you call from another room?
P R A G M AT I C S
We compared your answers about Auni’s emotions, gaze, eye contact, body language, and gestures
to others in her age group and noticed some potential issues.

Children at this age use a wide range of non-verbal techniques to communicate their emotions and
desires. This includes everything from sulky/pouty faces accompanied by the occasional quivering lip,
to attempts at winking and using slight nods of the head or flashes of the eyes to show what the child is
thinking about or what they want.

At this age children should be able to direct and hold attention for extended periods of time, especially
towards subjects and objects that interest them. They should also actively initiate play with their peers,
and an inability or lack of interest in such activities might indicate a problem with your child’s pragmatic
capabilities.

However, at this age, pragmatic communicative skills should be well-developed.

If they aren’t, it is more than likely best to contact your child’s school or contact a professional SLP.

Tips & tricks:

A great thing to do is mimic facial expressions that are appropriate for each situation.
Ask your child what face they should make when they are happy, sad, angry, excited, etc., And
demonstrate the right face. Be very encouraging when they get it right.

Use Speech Blubs to learn turn-taking.

You and your child can take turns in Speech Blubs. You stick one sticker, and then it’s Auni’s turn. Both of
you get to take play with a role-playing filter, take a picture, and much more. You can also use the pause
feature when you decide it’s Auni’s turn.

Get and keep your child’s attention.

Speech Blubs is home to hundreds of guessing games and riddles. First, your child will observe and
listen to the child models carefully, hold her attention for up to 30 seconds, and then wait for her turn to
speak or otherwise interact with the app.

Train your child’s eye-contact.

Speech Blubs centers on and prominently displays kids’ faces and real-life gestures. Focusing on these
peer models helps children who use the app improve their eye contact and non-verbal recognition. This
progress transfers easily to the real world.

Train emotional reactions.

With more than 200 different role-playing face filters, you and your child can become a happy puppy,
an angry lion, a surprised rabbit, and more. These filters help kids explore simulated emotions in a
controlled environment. Be very encouraging when they get it right.

Use Speech Blubs with two or more children at a time.

They will most likely encourage each other, invent stories, and naturally find a way to take turns. If not,
set some rules for them to follow. Avoid praising one child at a time, but encourage both, saying that
they are both doing a great job when they get something right.

Teach your child to react to feedback appropriately.

Speech Blubs rewards correct answers with a big “YEEESSS!” And fanfare. When they don’t succeed,
they get a big “NOOO”, a loud funny or silly sound, and plenty of encouragement to try again. This helps
children learn to effectively acknowledge and internalize feedback.

Your answers:
This report is based on the average within Auni age group (from 49 months). If she is at the beginning
of this milestone, is multilingual, or is neuroatypical, please take these responses with a grain of salt.
Things will probably be just fine. It is still a great idea to follow the tips and tricks above, and then try the
Speech Blubs screener again in a couple of months.

Does Auni speak in different ways depending on the listener and place (one way with friends, and
another with adults)?

Is Auni good at sharing information and taking turns with other children?

Has Auni begun using language for fantasy, jokes, and teasing?

Does Auni look at people who are speaking or things being spoken about?
P L AY
Play is so essential to optimal child development because it contributes to their cognitive, physical,
and social development. It is also essential for their emotional well-being and linguistic
competencies.

Play allows children to create and explore a world they can master, conquering their fears while
practicing adult roles, sometimes in a relationship with other children or adult caregivers. At this age
they will become more independent and begin to focus more on adults and children outside of the
family.

In this period children are interested in new and inventive experiences. They engage in fantasy play, also
trying to play a range of adult roles and behaviors, e.g. “Mom”, “Dad”, being a doctor, getting married,
etc.. The child who pretends to be a cowboy, a mother, a fairy, or a firefighter, etc. Is demonstrating some
knowledge of these roles and is working through their own ideas about all that they entail.

Play with other children is critical for the development of social skills. This includes becoming aware of
gender roles, consequences of actions, proper methods of interaction, etc.

Tips & tricks:

Provide many opportunities for social interactions with other preschoolers.

Turn your imagination on, get silly!

Many parents nowadays are stressed out and simply don’t play with their children enough. As a parent,
you have to find and nurture your own inner child. To help, turn on Speech Blubs’ reminders to get a
daily nudge when it’s time for play and silliness.

Expand on social communication and narration skills (telling a story) by role-playing.

Encourage more sophisticated pretend play by providing props, e.g., A playhouse, restaurant, grocery
store, doctor’s visit, and grocery store using dialogue, props, and dress-up clothes.

Have two children use Speech Blubs together.

Kids prefer learning from their peers rather than from adults, so using Speech Blubs with a sibling or a
friend only increasing the benefits Speech Blubs provides. Kids take turns, communicating with one
another and making up new rules as they go.

Role-play like there’s no tomorrow.

More than 200 face filters that match the thematic content of individual lessons open up the door for
your child to turn into a pirate, an alien, a chef, and even an astronaut or an orange. These face filters will
ignite your child’s natural ability to laugh, gesticulate, and invent stories.

Play role-playing games, let your child decide who will play which role and let them make the rules.
That’s a great opportunity for your child to engage more in problem-solving, decision making, and
conversation. Do the same with a dollhouse and its props, acting out scenarios and making the dolls talk.

Encourage your child to draw.

Speech Blubs teaches all about colors, shapes, and even how to draw. Combining language with shapes
is great for the brain, which develops best when many of its centers work at the same time. For an extra
trick have your child draw pictures from the app and discuss them.

Linguistic play is great at this age.

Use songs, books, riddles, and silly rhymes: it’s great fun to share these with your preschooler because
you’ll get to see the funny side of their personality while improving their language and vocabulary.

Your answers:
This report is based on the average within Auni age group (from 49 months). It looks like she is doing
just fine, but the tips and tricks above are still great. Use Speech Blubs to boost his speech even further
and ensure he doesn’t fall behind his peers. Try this screener again in a couple of months to make sure.

Can Auni plan construction and make-believe play with other children, for example building a
Lego model?

Does Auni enjoy imaginative play with other children, such as dress up, house, doctor, etc.?

Can Auni independently play games with simple rules?

Does Auni enjoy playing games, but might change the rules as she goes along?

Is Auni interested in other children’s games and does she actively want to join in with them?
COMPREHENSION
The potential issues Auni has with language comprehension are not to be neglected. Kids 4 to 5
years old can follow rather complex directions and enthusiastically talk about things they do. By the
time they reach the age of 4, they'll understand about 1,200 words and by the age of 5, they should
understand nearly everything you say.

Your child learns lots of new words by listening to you and other adults and guessing from context. They
also learn from new experiences and from listening to stories read out loud.

Over time your child will understand spoken instructions without stopping what they are doing to look at
the speaker and will follow directions with multiple, even if the situation is a new one (For example, “Give
your ticket to the man over there, and he’ll tear it, and then we can go to the movie.”).

Tips & tricks:

Build on your child's vocabulary.
Provide definitions for new words, and use them in context: "This vehicle is riding on the highway. It is a
car. A bus is another kind of vehicle. So are a train and an airplane."

Talk about spatial relationships.

(First, middle, and last; right and left) and opposites (up and down, big and little).

Encourage your child to ask for an explanation.

If they do not understand what a word means.

Work on forming and explaining categories (fruits, furniture, shapes).

Now try to sort them by pointing out more subtle differences between objects (e.g., Rocks that are
smooth vs. Those that are rough, heavy vs. Light, big vs. Small). Have your child identify the object that
does not belong in a given category, and ask them to explain why the item does not belong.

Use Guess the Word, Guess the Sound, and Riddles.

Speech Blubs was designed specifically to boost children’s comprehension. It contains the sections
listed above, which work to actively test talking, hearing, and comprehension.

Read to your child.

There are 1200+ different original short and fun video stories in Speech Blubs They have been designed
to sparkle associative thinking. E.g. When children talk about a monkey, for instance, they might just
stumble upon a video about a monkey traveling to space.

Ask many questions.

You might find the Speech Blubs videos and role-playing filters a bit unusual. That’s on purpose!
Children get curious, they ask questions (sometimes just in their heads), and many activities lead directly
to conversations. You can ask questions directly, too!

Connect digital lessons to real life.

Take funny pictures with the role-playing filters that Speech Blubs provides. Print them out and display
them on the wall or your refrigerator. Use them as a way to boost comprehension by regularly referring
to them and discussing them at random moments.

Your answers:
This report is based on the average within Auni age group (from 49 months). If she is at the beginning
of this milestone, is multilingual, or is neuroatypical, please take these responses with a grain of salt.
Things will probably be just fine. It is still a great idea to follow the tips and tricks above, and then try the
Speech Blubs screener again in a couple of months.

Can Auni answer questions about hypotheticals, such as “What do you do when you are sleepy/
thirsty?” Or “What should you do if you hurt yourself?”?

Does Auni understand words for time, such as "yesterday", "today", and "last night"?

Can Auni understand simple stories that have no pictures?

Can Auni show you “top”, “bottom", "above", and "below" to describe the position of things.

Can Auni follow "classroom" directions, such as "Draw a circle on your paper around something
you eat?"

Does Auni identify crosses, triangles, circles, and squares when asked?

Can Auni follow instructions with 3 parts, such as "Find your crayons, draw a picture, and give it to
your friend.”?

Does Auni understand words that describe the order of events, such as “first”, “next”, and “last”?

Can Auni follow a two-part unrelated command, such as “Go find your shoes and pick up that
toy.”?
TA L K I N G
Your answers show that Auni’s speech is not meeting the milestones for her age-group.

As kids gain master language skills, they also develop their conversational abilities. You’ll notice that they
love telling stories and having conversations. They will begin to use language to tease and tell jokes.
They will also start to tell you how they feel, talk about their ideas, and play with words that rhyme.

At 4 years old your preschooler knows hundreds of words (between 1000 and 2000 words) and can
use several words in sentences. By 5 years old your child will speak in increasingly complex sentences,
with increasing clarity, and will know, understand, and use even more words, often in very complicated
sentences containing many words.

Different sentence types will emerge this year, e.g. Using both “The dog was chasing the cat” and “The
cat was chased by the dog” to mean the same thing. All word endings will become regularized and your
child will develop the ability to talk about the past and the future, rather than just using the present
+tomorrow/yesterday.

Irregular plurals like “mice” and “fish” will become regular, as well as the so-called strong verbs “sing/
sang/sung”, etc. By this time almost every word your child says will be understood by strangers. Speech
at this age should be completely understandable, even if there are still a few lingering errors in
pronunciation.

Tips & tricks:

Patience!
Tens of thousands of parents have witnessed how Speech Blubs has turned their children’s speaking
abilities ON. You might see progress as soon as within a day or two, but do not give up if not: in many
cases it takes weeks before noticing significant progress.

Follow your child's directions as they explain how to do something.

Give full attention to your child when they are speaking.

Acknowledge, praise, and encourage them after saying something well or saying something interesting.

Before talking to your child be sure to get their undivided attention.

Pause after speaking, allowing them to respond to what you have said.

Give your child multi-step directions.

(E.g. "Get your coat from the closet and scarf from the laundry and put them on."). Encourage your child
to give directions to explain how they did something. For example, ask your child to explain how they
made a structure out of Lego blocks.

When playing doctor, ask your child to explain what they did to give the baby a checkup.

Draw a picture and write down your child's story as they tell it.
Your child will soon grasp the power of storytelling and written language.
Talk with your doctor if your child is not using words to let others know what they want.
Not talking clearly enough for their primary caregiver to know what they want most of the time, seem to
be in a “world of their own”, or do not respond when others are talking.

Also consider consulting their pediatrician if people outside the family have a hard time
understanding your child.
Or if your child is still dependent on physical gestures to communicate (like pointing to the cookie jar
instead of asking for a cookie).

Work on your child’s active vocabulary.

Regularly using Speech Blubs helps your child acquire new words, songs, rhymes, riddles, sentences,
and stories by simply mirroring the sounds and mouth movements that the peer models demonstrate.
Parents have reported that their kids learn up to a dozen words a day.

Encourage your child to imitate the kids and adults.

Be a good model yourself and motivate your child to imitate you, peers, siblings, and the carefully-
chosen kid models within Speech Blubs. Practice makes perfect and Speech Blubs offers countless
ways of practicing words and sentences the right way.

Don’t focus too much on verbal execution.

Merely observing the models in Speech Blubs is enough for your child to strengthen those parts of the
brain that power speech and language. Kids’ brains actively record these sounds and behaviors at every
step.

Use Speech Blubs to strengthen oral motor strengths and skills.

Speech Blubs app includes a special section called Mouth Gym. It may sound silly, but often a lack of
verbalization can be a result of an underdeveloped tongue muscle and not the result of a cognitive
deficiency. Just working the mouth can work wonders!

Talk about and expand upon storylines.

Use simple books, short stories, or even basic writing prompts. Help your child retell the prompt, then
expand upon it verbally or act it out with props and dress-up clothes. Tell them your favorite part of the
story and ask for their favorite part. Expand on storytelling skills. There are more than 1200 intriguing
storytelling and role-playing opportunities in Speech Blubs. Use them like a prompt to trigger the
conversation about both everyday and extraordinary scenarios. Ask and encourage your child to invent
fun details that make the story interesting.

Trigger giggles with sounds.

In Speech Blubs’ you’ll find not only funny animal sounds but also plenty of sounds that a well-behaved
adult might consider inappropriate. Your kids will love them ;) This helps their brain relax and gives them
mental energy, necessary for forging new neural networks.

Wait for 10 seconds!

Having a child make guesses is one of the best ways to encourage speech. Ask, for instance, “What
animal do you think is hiding behind this sticker? What color is this animal?” Make sure to wait for 10
seconds or so before helping your child with the answer. Always respond.

Your answers:
This report is based on the average within Auni age group (from 49 months). If she is at the beginning
of this milestone, is multilingual, or is neuroatypical, please take these responses with a grain of salt.
Things will probably be just fine. It is still a great idea to follow the tips and tricks above, and then try the
Speech Blubs screener again in a couple of months.
Can Auni pronounce all the sounds in the language?

Does Auni use grammatically correct sentences?

Does Auni talk without repeating words or sounds in the flow of speech (speak without stuttering)?

Can Auni keep a conversation going independently?

Can Auni tell you in detail about her day?

Does Auni enjoy telling short stories?

Does Auni actively name letters and numbers as she sees them?

Does Auni hear and understand most of what is said at home and in school?