SAILS

iPad / Education

The Speech Assessment and Interactive Learning System (SAILS) is an app-based tool for presenting children with recordings of other children's speech. The recordings represent children's efforts to perceive difficult sounds, some articulated correctly, some misarticulated. The child's task is to determine if each auditory stimulus is a correctly articulated variant of the target word. Four published studies have shown that a child's rate of progress in speech therapy will be double the usual rate if the program is included as part of a typical speech therapy program.

SAILS is available in North-American English (8 speech sounds can be tested and trained across 21 modules) and Australian English (5 speech sounds can be tested and trained across 10 modules). You can try SAILS with the CAT module that is free in each language.
One module (GRIS) is available for free in French.

Project initiated and directed by Susan Rvachew
Software development by Alexandre Herbay
Australian speech sounds development by Stephanie Hearnshaw

More information at www.dialspeech.com

Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version ?

This new version fixes some bugs that appeared with iOS 14. It also adds 13 new modules in North-American English. For the first time, SAILS has now an integrated Australian version, using normed speech sounds across 10 modules in Australian English. Results display has been improved and results can now be exported in a CSV file.